Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, 2009

Organic and Organometallic Chemistry; Catalytic Reaction Development; Natural Product Synthesis

Clark, D. A.; Basille, B. S.; Karnofel, W. S.; Diver, S. T. Enyne Cross-Metathesis with Strained, Geminally-Substituted Alkenes:Direct Access to Highly Substituted 1,3-Dienes. Org. Lett. 2008, 10(21), 4927-4929.

Diver, S. T.; Clark, D. A.; Kulkarni, A. A. Selective Tandem Enyne Metathesis for the Synthesis of Functionalized Cycloheptadienes. Tetrahedron (Special Issue) 2008, 64(29), 6909-6919.

Clark, D. A., Clark, J. R., Diver, S. T. Alkenol-Alkyne Cross Metathesis. Org. Lett. 2008, 10(10), 2055-2058.

Diver, S. T.; Kulkarni, A.A.; Clark, D. A.; Peppers, B.P. Cylcodimerization of Alkynes with Phosphine-Free Ruthenium Carbene Complexes: Carbene Consumption by a Shunted Alkyne Oligomerization. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129(18), 5832-5833.

Clark, D. A.; Kulkarni, A. A.; Kalbarczyk, K. K.; Schertzer, B.; Diver, S. T. Tandem Enyne Metathesis and Claisen Rearrangement: A Versatile Approach to Conjugated Dienes of Variable Substitution Patterns. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128(49), 15632-15636.