The Sammis Group

The core of my research group focuses on the development of high impact, and groundbreaking free radical and photochemical processes for the synthesis of pharmaceuticals and natural products. Given their importance to the pharmaceutical industry, we particularly focus on new methods for the incorporation of fluorine into small molecules. Since 2015, I have tripled the size of my group, and we have expanded our focus to now include electrochemical processes and detection, as well as the application of commodity chemicals towards unsolved synthetic challenges. My research program currently explores four broad directions: (A) applications of the industrial fumigant, sulfuryl fluoride, in one-pot synthetic processes, (B) new radical fluorination methods, (C) novel radical cyclizations to access pharmaceutically-relevant motifs, (D) new electrochemical processes and detectors.

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