Lee Mcdermott

Education

• Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry, Brown University, Providence, RI 1995
  Thesis:
• Part I. Synthesis of Five Novel Tetrahydroimidazodiazepinones as Candidates for HIV-1 Non Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors and Evaluation of their Biological Activity.
• Part II. Synthesis of the A-ring Synthon of 1a-Hydroxyvitamin D3.
• Part III. Nucleoside Synthesis from Pentenyl Glycosides.
• Part IV. Studies toward the Synthesis of Tazettine Alkaloids.
• Post-Doc, Organic Chemistry, Columbia University, NY, NY 1998
  Project: The total synthesis of strychnine under Professor Gilbert Stork.
• Executive MBA, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 2007