University of California-Santa Barbara

Zhang Synthesis Lab

Liming Zhang — Dr. Liming Zhang's lab at UC Santa Barbara focuses on developing advanced chemical methods for synthesizing complex organic molecules, particularly in the areas of gold catalysis and carbohydrate chemistry. They are inventing new strategies to create compounds that may be valuable in biomedical research, like unnatural amino acids used in therapeutics. The lab aims to innovate ways to construct glycosidic bonds, which are important in sugar chemistry, and to apply these methods to produce biologically significant structures.

Plaxco Lab