Sep 22 2020 – Keck Science chemistry Prof. Anna Wenzel receives mentorship grant to support undergraduate research

Anna Wenzel, associate professor of chemistry at Claremont McKenna College and chair of the chemistry division in the Keck Science Department, has received a prestigious grant to provide mentorship this summer that will support the ongoing research of Ellen Berkley ’18.

According to Wenzel, Berkley’s research concerns the [3,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement of allyl vinyl ethers, the Claisen rearrangement, which is a prominent method for the rapid construction of carbon-carbon bonds. Wenzel says Berkley will be working on the first enantioselective allenoate Claisen rearrangement reaction, which recently was discovered in Wenzel’s lab by Berkley, Rachael Hamilton SCR’16 and Iain Laufer ’17.

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