The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences warmly congratulates Chemistry's Andrew Krasley for the successful November 20th defense of his doctoral dissertation Exploration of Synthetic Pathways to Quaternary Carbon Stereocenters and Fused Ring Systems via Birch Reductions. Andy's research was a methodological exploration into the rapid generation of carbon stereocenters and their development into drug-like scaffolds. Andy's research aids the development of new variants of stereocenter reactions that form the basis for new tools which the chemical community can use when working with complex compounds found in many pharmaceutical drugs with quaternary all-carbon stereocenters. His dissertation advisor is Bill Malalchowski. Congratulations Andy!
