Welcome to the Walczak Group
chemical tools and strategies to drive
new discoveries in the life sciences
CURRENT RESEARCH
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We are developing tools that enable the synthesis and selective modifications of (oligo)saccharides with minimal synthetic effort and in high selectivities. These studies utilize catalytic processes compatible with a broad selection of functional groups and classes of substrates.
CURRENT RESEARCH
RECENT NEWS
08 / 30 / 2019
Ruiheng Jing is a new exchange student from Nankai University. Welcome to Boulder!
08 / 29 / 2019
Xuan Wang joined the group as a new postdoctoral associate. Xuan comes from Shanghai and his background is in catalysis and carbohydrate chemistry. Welcome to CU!
05 / 24 / 2019
Congratulations to Dr. Tianyi Yang! Tianyi successfully defended his PhD thesis describing new methods for saccharide synthesis and manipulations.
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