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Francesca Ippoliti

Ippoliti Publishes

Francesca Ippoliti, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, is a first author on a research article published in the most recent issue of Angewandte Chemie International Edition. The article, titled 鈥淭otal Synthesis of Lissodendoric Acid A,鈥 details Dr. Ippoliti鈥檚 graduate work synthesizing a natural product found in marine sponges. The synthesis relies on the use of a cyclic allene, a highly strained intermediate, to build the core structure of the natural product. .