Duke University, Ph.D., 1980. Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology, 1980-81; Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 1986-88; American Cyanamid Faculty Fellowship, 1994; Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 1999. A.C. Cope Scholar Award, 2001; Charles H. Herty Medal from the Georgia Section of the American Chemical Society, 2004; Distinguished Speaker Award from the North Carolina Section of the ACS in 2008; Ernest Guenther Award for Outstanding Achievement in Chemistry of Natural Products, 2010

Organic

Total Synthesis of Natural Products

"Total Synthesis of the Proposed Structure of Briarellin J" Michael T. Crimmins; Mark C. Mans; Abimael D. Rodriguez Org. Lett. 2010, 12, 5028-5031. DOI: 10.1021/ol102169w| "Enantioselective Total Synthesis of Spirofungins A and B" Michael T. Crimmins; Elizabeth A. O'Bryan Org. Lett. 2010, 12, 4416-4419. DOI: 10.1021/ol1015898| "Synthesis of the Bis-tetrahydropyran Core of Amphidinol 3" Michael T. Crimmins; Timothy J. Martin Org. Lett. 2010, 12, 3890-3893. DOI: 10.1021/ol101961c| "A Highly Convergent Approach toward (-)-Brevenal" Crimmins, M. T.; Shamszad, M.; Mattson, A. E. Org. Lett. 2010, 12, 2614-2617. DOI: 10.1021/ol1008203 | "Total Synthesis of Irciniastatin A (Psymberin)" Crimmins, M. T.; Stevens, J. M.; Schaaf, G. M. Org. Lett. 2009, 11, 3990-3993. DOI: 10.1021/ol901655e | "Enantioselective Total Synthesis of Brevetoxin A: Convergent Coupling Strategy and Completion" Crimmins, M. T.; Zuccarello, J. L.; McDougall, P. J.; Ellis, J. M. Chem. Eur. J. 2009, 15, 9235-9244. DOI: 10.1002/chem.200900777 | "Enantioselective Total Synthesis of Brevetoxin A: Unified Strategy for the B, E, G, and J Subunits" Crimmins, M. T.; Ellis, J. M.; Emmitte, K. A.; Haile, P. A.; McDougall, P. J.; Parrish, J. D.; Zuccarello, J. L. Chem. Eur. J. 2009, 15, 9223-9234. DOI: 10.1002/chem.200900776 | "Asymmetric Total Synthesis of Pyranicin" Crimmins, M. T.; Jacobs, D. L. Org. Lett. 2009, 11, 2695-2698. DOI: 10.1021/ol900814w | "Enantioselective Total Synthesis of (-)-Pironetin: Iterative Aldol Reactions of Thiazolidinethiones" Crimmins, M. T.; Dechert, A.-M. R. Org. Lett. 2009, 11, 1635-1638. DOI: 10.1021/ol9003228 | "Total Synthesis of Apoptolidin A" Crimmins, M. T.; Christie, H. S.; Long, A.; and Chaudhary, K. Org. Lett. 2009, 11, 831-834. DOI: 10.1021/ol802829n | "Total Synthesis of Brevetoxin A" Crimmins, M. T.; Zuccarello, J. L.; Ellis, J. M.; McDougall, P. J.; Haile, P. A.; Parrish, J. D.; Emmitte, K. A. Org. Lett. 2009, 11, 489-492. DOI: 10.1021/ol802710u |