Department of Chemistry
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor
United States
Scientific career
Since 2013 | Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Michigan, USA |
2007 - 2013 | Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the Boston University, USA, and co-Principal Investigator in the Center for Chemical Methodologies and Library Development |
2005 - 2007 | Research on catalytic asymmetric synthesis as Postdoctoral fellow under the direction of Professor Erick M. Carreira at ETH Zürich, Switzerland |
1998 - 2005 | Graduate and doctoral studies on new C–C bond forming reactions of alkenylzirconocenes and their cascade reaction sequences under the direction of Professor Peter Wipf at the University of Pittsburgh, USA |
Until 1998 | Studies in chemistry at the University of Waterloo, Canada |
Research areas
Research in his group is focused primarily upon the development of new strategies and methodologies for the synthesis of natural products. Of particular interest is the discovery of practical new processes which utilize the redox chemistry of visible light activated metal complexes.
Thematic issue
Prof. Stephenson edited the thematic issue in the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry:
Organic free radical chemistry
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