The Rizzacasa Group
Group Photo May 2018
Postdoctoral applications now welcome. Please email your CV to masr@unimelb.edu.au
The group’s overarching goal is the total synthesis of complex natural products. These natural products may originate from a variety of sources or exhibit a variety of biological activity, however what draws them to us is their structural complexity, and the greater the complexity, the better!
Through our endeavours we hope to develop original synthetic routes, confirm biosynthetic origin and synthesise meaningful quantities to enable rigorous biological studies. Over the past 20 years our group has had success in reaching these goals and examples can be seen in our publications page.
Our current research projects can be viewed, following the links below.
Total Synthesis of Myxobacterial Secondary Metabolites
Total Synthesis of Alkyl Citrate Natural Products