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Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Dave MacMillan (UCI chem PhD '96) elected to National Academy of Sciences.
Dave received his PhD in 1996 with the Overman group, on the development of a new stereocontrolled synthesis of tetrahydrofurans. His graduate studies culminated in the total synthesis of 7-(−)-deacetoxyalcyonin acetate, a eunicellin deterpenoid isolated from soft coral Eunicella stricta.
See the NAS announcement here.