Jamison Group at MIT

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ivan Vilotijevic

Education:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005 - present
Ph.D. candidate with Prof. Timothy F. Jamison
B.Sc.

University of Belgrade, 2005
with Prof. Rade Markovic
research with Prof. Leo A. Paquette, Ohio State University
research with Prof. David Y. Gin, University of Illinois, Urbana

Current research:

Current research interests include development of epoxide-opening cascade reactions directed towards the synthesis of ladder polyether natural products.

Publications:

  • Morten, C. J.; Byers, J.A.; Van Dyke, A.R.; Vilotijevic, I.; Jamison, T. F. "The development of endo-selective epoxide-opening cascades in water" Chem. Soc. Rev. 2010 in press

  • Vilotijevic, I.; Jamison, T. F. “Epoxide-Opening Cascades in Synthesis of Polycyclic Polyether Natural Products,”
    Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 5250-5281.

  • Vilotijevic, I.; Jamison, T. F. “Epoxide-Opening Cascades Promoted by Water,” Science 2007, 317, 1189-1192.

  • Pichlmair, S.; de Lera Ruiz, M.; Vilotijevic, I.; Paquette, L.A. " Exploration of conjugate addition routes to advanced tricyclic components of mangicol A." Tetrahedron 2006, 62(24), 5791-5802.

  • Hartung, R. E.; Hofferberth, J. E.; Vilotijevic, I.; Yang, J.; Paquette, L. A. "Synthesis of Stereoisomeric Medium-Ring α, α’-Dihydroxy Cycloalkanones," J. Org. Chem., 2004, 69, 2454–2460.

  • Vilotijevic, I.; Himley, D.; Young, J.; Paquette, L. A. "Base-Promoted Ring Contraction of Eight-Membered Cyclic Acyloins and their Ethers to Cs-symmetric α-Ketols," Synthesis 2003, 35, 1872–1874.

  • Paquette, L. A.; Vilotijevic, I.; Himley, D.; Young, J. "Divergent Regioselectivity in the Base-Promoted Reactions of Cyclic Eight-Membered α-Ketols with Activated Halides," Org. Lett., 2003, 5, 463–466.
   
 

Contact: vilotije at mit dot edu