Luiz Novaes

Ph.D. University of Campinas (Unicamp)
Advisor: Julio Pastre

Luiz was born in São Caetano do Sul, state of São Paulo, Brazil. He received his B.S. degree in Chemistry and M.S. degree in Organic Chemistry from University of Campinas under the guidance of Prof. Ronaldo Pilli, working on total synthesis of natural polyketides. Next, Luiz joined Prof. Julio Pastre group (University of Campinas) for his Ph.D. studies on total synthesis of natural terpenes. During his Ph.D., he spent one year at UC Berkeley as a visiting student and worked on total synthesis of Illicium sesquiterpenes under the supervision of Prof. Tom Maimone. In September of 2019, Luiz joined the Song Lin group as a postdoctoral fellow to gain knowledge about electrochemistry. Outside of lab, Luiz enjoys hiking, running and drinking a few pints of beer.

Publications:

1. Hung, K.; Condakes, M. L.; Novaes, L. F. T.; Harwood, S.; Morikawa, T.; Yang, Z.; Maimone, T. J. Development of a terpene feedstock-based oxidative synthetic approach to the Illicium sesquiterpenes. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 3083-3099.

2. Novaes, L. F. T.; Gonçalves, K. A.; Trivella, D. B. B.; Pastre, J. C. Formal total synthesis of actinoranone: synthetic approaches and cytotoxic studies. J. Org. Chem. 2018, 83, 5160-5176.

3. Condakes, M. L.; Novaes, L. F. T.; Maimone, T. J. Contemporary synthetic strategies toward seco-prezizaane sesquiterpenes from Illicium species. J. Org. Chem. 2018, 83, 14843-14852.

4. Novaes, L. F. T.; Pastre, J. C. Formal Total Synthesis of Actinoranone and Asymmetric Synthesis of Labda-7,13-(E)-dien-15-ol. Org. Lett. 2017, 19, 3163-3166.

5. Novaes, L. F. T.; Sarotti, A. M.; Pilli, R. A. Total synthesis and stereochemical assignment of cryptolatifolione. RSC Adv. 2015, 5, 53471-53476.

6. Novaes, L. F. T.; Sarotti, A. M.; Pilli, R. A. Total synthesis and tentative structural elucidation of cryptomoscatone E3: interplay of experimental and computational studies. J. Org. Chem. 2015, 80, 12027-12037.

7. Novaes, L. F. T.; Drekener, R. L.; Avila, C. M.; Pilli, R. A. Total synthesis of cryptomoscatones D1 and D2: stereochemical assignment of cryptomoscatone D1. Tetrahedron, 2014, 70, 6467-6473.

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