Selected Recent Publications:

"Mimicking Biosynthesis: Total Synthesis of the Triterpene Natural Product, Abudinol B, from a Squalene-like Precursor." Rongbiao Tong and Frank E. McDonald, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2008, 47, 4377-4379.

"Modular Synthesis of the C9-C27 Degradation Product of Aflastatin A via Alkyne-Epoxide Cross-Couplings." Omar Robles and Frank E. McDonald, Organic Letters, 2008, 10, 1811-1814.

"Stereo- and Regioselective Glycosylations to the Bis-C-arylglycoside of Kidamycin." ZhongBo Fei and Frank E. McDonald, Organic Letters, 2007, 9, 3547-3550.

"Fischer carbene catalysis of alkynol cycloisomerization: Application to the synthesis of the altromycin B disaccharide." BonSuk Koo and Frank E. McDonald, Organic Letters, 2007, 9, 1737-1740.

"Biomimetic Synthesis via Polyepoxide Cyclizations." Frank E. McDonald, Rongbiao Tong, Jason C. Valentine, and Fernando Bravo, Pure and Applied Chemistry, 2007, 79, 281-291.

"Total Syntheses of Durgamone, Nakorone, and Abudinol B via Biomimetic Oxa- and Carbacyclizations." Rongbiao Tong, Jason C. Valentine, Frank E. McDonald, Rui Cao, Xikui Fang, and Kenneth I. Hardcastle, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2007, 129, 1050-1051.

"New Chiral Synthons for Efficient Preparation of Bispropionates via Stereospecific Oxonia-Cope Rearrangements." Yi-Hung Chen and Frank E. McDonald, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2006, 128, 4568-4569.

"Synthesis of 1-Deoxysphingosine Derivatives with Conformationally Restricted Pyrrolidinediol Head Groups." Ann M. Dougherty, Frank E. McDonald, Dennis C. Liotta, Steven J. Moody, David C. Pallas, Carrie D. Pack, and Alfred H. Merrill, Organic Letters, 2006, 8, 649-652.

"Synthesis of the Saccharomicin Fucose-Aglycon Conjugate and Determination of Absolute Configuration." Joseph M. Pletcher and Frank E. McDonald, Organic Letters, 2005, 7, 4749-4752.

"Synthesis of the Branched C-Glycoside Substructure of Altromycin B." Bonsuk Koo and Frank E. McDonald, Organic Letters, 2005, 7, 3621-3624.

"1-Deoxy-5-hydroxysphingolipids as New Anticancer Principles: An Efficient Procedure for Stereoselective Syntheses of 2-Amino-3,5-Diols." John M. Wiseman, Frank E. McDonald, and Dennis C. Liotta, Organic Letters, 2005, 7, 3155-3157.

"Synthesis of Seven-Membered Ring Glycals via Endo-Selective Alkynol Cycloisomerization." Eva Alcázar, Joseph M. Pletcher, and Frank E. McDonald, Organic Letters, 2004, 6, 3877-3880.

“Total Synthesis of the Polyene-Polyol Macrolide RK-397, Featuring Cross-Couplings of Alkynylepoxide Modules.” Svetlana A. Burova and Frank E. McDonald, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2004, 126, 2495-2500.