Dr Carmen Galan

Research summary

In our lab we are interested in employing synthetic organic chemistry as a tool to probe and manipulate the structure and function of biologically relevant molecules to study biological problems and potentially discover treatments for diseases.

Carbohydrates have emerged as important factors of molecular recognition in biology and medicine. Understanding the roles of these complex molecules, which are found on the surface of cells as part of glycoproteins or glycolipids is of great importance. However, the synthesis of these oligosaccharide structures is still a challenging task.

Our current research interests focus on the development of new synthetic techniques for the ...

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Links

• The Galan Group website
• Faculty of Science - Academic Profile
• Video: what it means to be a scientist in the 21st century

Selected publications

• Galan, M, Tran, A & Bernard, C 2010, ‘Ionic Liquid based Catch and Release MS Tags for Enzyme monitoring’. Chemical Communications, vol 46., pp. 8968 - 8970
• Tran, A, Jones, R, Pastor, J, Boisson, J, Smith, N & , MG 2011, ‘Copper (II) triflate: a versatile catalyst for the one-pot preparation of orthogonally protected glycosides’. Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, vol 353., pp. 2593 - 2598

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Recent publications

• Galan, MC, Tran, [VAT, Bromfield, K, Rabbani, S & Ernst, B 2012, ‘Ionic-liquid-based MS probes for the chemo-enzymatic synthesis of oligosaccharides’. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, vol 10., pp. 7091-7097
• Balmond, EI, Coe, DM, Galan, MC & McGarrigle, EM 2012, ‘α-Selective organocatalytic synthesis of 2-deoxygalactosides’. Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English), vol 51., pp. 9152-5

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