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The Macmillan Group

Innovation in organic chemistry and chemical biology through the development of general catalysis concepts and their application to complex targets.

Research

The pursuit of new concepts in catalysis, exemplified by organocatalysis, cascade, synergistic, and photoredox catalysis. The application of unique methodologies to the total synthesis of natural products and pharmaceuticals. Leveraging photocatalysis to investigate complex biological environments.

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Recent Publications

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Science 2023, 382, 191–197

Exploiting the Marcus inverted region for first-row transition metal–based photoredox catalysis

Dr. Amy Chan

Nature 2023, 616, 574–580

Tracking chromatin state changes using nanoscale photo-proximity labelling

Dr. Ciaran Seath

Photoredox

Harnessing visible light energy to discover and invent new reactivity paradigms.

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Dave Macmillan

Dave started his independent career in 1998 at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2000, he moved to the California Institute of Technology.

In 2006, Dave was named the A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University. From 2010-2015, Dave served as the Chair of the Chemistry Department at Princeton.

He is currently the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University.

Dave shares the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Benjamin List “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis”.

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