Organic Chemistry: Current Research
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R Karl Dieter

Biography

Dr. Dieter professor received his BA 1973 from Lehigh University and his PhD 1978 from the University of Pennsylvania working in synthesis synthetic methods and photochemistry with Professor Amos B Smith III. He was an American Chemical Society Postdoctoral Fellow 19781979 with Professor Jerrold Meinwald at Cornell in natural products chemistry. He served on the faculty at Boston University before joining Clemson in 1985.

Research Interest

Asymmetric Synthesis, Synthetic methodology and reaction mechanisms, Natural Products-isolation and synthesis, Organocopper and organosulfur chemistry.