Chemistry, bioorganic chemistry of marine natural products with novel structural and biological properties.

Development of new synthetic methodology using novel main-group organometallic chemistry.

Design and development of new asymmetric catalysts and the application of these catalysts to the synthesis of useful chiral building blocks.

Combinatorial chemistry and self-assembling systems.

Synthesis of natural products and small molecules to study biological processes, Transcriptional and translational control of protein synthesis, Molecular control of cellular signaling processes.

Development of new stereoselective carbon-carbon bond-forming processes and employing these methods in organic synthesis

Total synthesis of cytotoxic marine and microbial natural products.

Organic synthesis of natural products, and related artificial functional molecules; molecular recognition and mechanism of interactions between these molecules and biopolymers.

Natural Products, Organometallic chemistry, Phenylenes, Fullerenes and Nanostructures

Structure elucidation, Total synthesis, and determination of the mode of action of marine natural products that display significant physiological activity.