Jason Lowe Receives Merck Research Laboratories-Boston 2007 Fellowship

Each year, Merck Research Laboratories (MRL)-Boston awards the Department of Chemistry a graduate fellowship to support an advanced-year student whose thesis research focuses on organic synthesis.  Several outstanding young scientists were nominated for consideration by the Graduate Affairs Commitee. After careful deliberation, the Committee selected Jason Lowe, a member of the Panek Group. Jason joined the graduate program in 2002. His astounding productivity and excellent work are demonstrated by his publications:

"Total Synthesis of a 32-Membered Stereoisomer Library of Bistramide A", I.E. Wrona; J.T. Lowe; J. Beigne; J.S. Panek, Agnew.Chem. Int .Ed., 2007 (in preparation)

“Total Synthesis of Bistramide A”, J.T. Lowe; I.E. Wrona; J.S. Panek,Org. Lett. 2007, 9, 327-330.

“Reductive Opening of Aryl Pyranosides Promoted by Scandium(III) Triflate”, H.-L. Qin, J.T. Lowe, J.S. Panek, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007; 129(1); 38-39

"A Convenient Multi-Gram Synthesis of Highly Enantioenriched Methyl 3-Silyl Glycidates", J.T. Lowe; W. Youngsaye; J.S. Panek, J. Org. Chem., 2006, 71, 3639.

“Stereocontrolled [4+2]-Annulation Accessing Dihydropyrans: Synthesis of the C1a-C10 Fragment of Kendomycin”, J.T. Lowe and J.S. Panek, Org. Lett. 2005, 7, 1529-1532.

"Synthesis and [4 + 2]-Annulation of Enantioenriched (Z)-Crotylsilanes: Preparation of the C1-C13 Fragment of Bistramide A”, J.T. Lowe and J.S. Panek, Org. Lett. 2005, 7, 3231-3234.

January 2007