Ji Qi Receives 2006-2007 Novartis Fellowship in Organic Chemistry for Women and Minorities
Ji Qi is a third-year graduate student in John Porco’s laboratory. Ms. Qi’s fellowship will support her ongoing project “Studies Towards the Synthesis of Polyprenylated Benzophenone Natural Products.” She has developed a novel process to assemble the bicyclo [3.3.1]-nonane-1,3,5- trione core of this natural product class.