{"id":66,"date":"2022-07-27T12:25:20","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T12:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev.acsu.buffalo.edu\/chemlerlab\/?page_id=66"},"modified":"2026-07-21T17:47:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T17:47:29","slug":"home-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/chemlerlab\/","title":{"rendered":"Organic Synthesis and Catalysis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Research in the <strong>Chemler group<\/strong> is focused on organic synthesis and catalysis for applications in medicinal chemistry, chemical biology and sustainability. &nbsp;A major area of research in the Chemler group is the discovery, development and synthetic application of enantioselective copper-catalyzed oxidative functionalizations of alkenes.&nbsp; Alkenes are a ubiquitous functional group and copper is an Earth abundant transition metal with significant catalytic versatility. &nbsp;Many of the products are chiral saturated nitrogen and oxygen heterocycles, compounds frequently found in bioactive small molecules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sherry R. Chemler, Professor, 618 Natural Science Complex, Chemistry Department, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>email (preferred): schemler@buffalo.edu<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note: Prof. Chemler does not send emails from gmail accounts that seem to be associated with this website. The buffalo.edu email is Prof. Chemler&#8217;s only professional email account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Phone: 716-645-4225<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research in the Chemler group is focused on organic synthesis and catalysis for applications in medicinal chemistry, chemical biology and sustainability. &nbsp;A major area of research in the Chemler group &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/chemlerlab\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Organic Synthesis and Catalysis<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":517,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-66","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/chemlerlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/chemlerlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/chemlerlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/chemlerlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/517"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/chemlerlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/chemlerlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/chemlerlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66\/revisions\/453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/chemlerlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}