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Andrew S. Kende
Strategy and Tactics in Organic Synthesis
Professor Emeritus of Chemistry
Ph.D. 1957, Harvard University
2003 ACS Arthur C. Cope Senior Scholar Award Recipient

Professor Kende’s research interests include the total synthesis of alkaloids, terpenes, and antibiotics; rearrangement reactions; synthesis of antineoplastic natural products; chemistry of small rings; chemical and biochemical studies of polyhalogenated xenobiotics and of bacterial autoinducers.

Relevant Publications
Pick, N., Rawat, M., Arad, D., Lan, J., Fan, J., Kende, A. S., Av-Gay, Y.  "In vitro properties of antimicrobial bromotyrosine alkaloids,"  J. Med. Microbiol.  200655407-415.
Chen, Z. C., Kende, A. S., Colson, A. O., Mendezandino, J. L., Ebetino, F. H., Bush, R.D., Hu, X. E.  "Ketopiperazines: Conformationally Constrained Peptidomimetic of Arginine Amides,"  Synth. Commun.  200636473-479.
Kende, A. S., Mota Nelson, C. E., Fuchs, S.  "Palladium-mediated transannular cyclizations of medium-ring olefinic enolsilanes,"  Tetrahedron Lett.  2005468149-8152.
Chen, Z. C., Fan, J., Kende, A. S.  "Total synthesis of (+/-)-Alantrypinone by Hetero Diels-Alder Reaction,"  J. Org. Chem.  20046979-85.
Kende, A .S., Henry, O., Chen, Z.  "Mechanism of an unusual decarboxylative cyclization,"  Tetrahedron Lett.  2004457809-7812.

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