Breslow Group - Design and synthesis of new molecules with interesting properties. Brook Group - Silicon chemistry. Bodwell Group - Novel aromatics: nonplanar aromatic compounds, cyclophanes and molecular switches. Barrett Group - Research on the total synthesis of bioactive natural products, heterocyclic compounds, organometallic compounds, macrocyclic ethers and lactones and porphyrazines. The team is additionally investigating the use of catalysis in organic synthesis and the development of combinatorial chemistry and parallel synthesis for pharmaceutical discovery and other applications. Bringmann Group - Marine natural products. New antimalarial agents. Tropical Plant Compounds. Neurodegeneration. Natural product synthesis. Computational Chemistry. Booker-Milburn Group - Development of Clean Methods for Radical Chemistry. New Photochemical Methods for Natural Product Synthesis. Bioorganic Chemistry: Genes as 'Reagents' for Organic Synthesis. Batista Group - Development and application of semiclassical and quantum dynamics methods for studies of excited state reaction dynamics and relaxation phenomena in polyatomic systems and sensitized semiconductor materials; ligand binding interactions and reactivity in biomolecules. Boger Group - Total synthesis of biologically active natural products, the development of new synthetic methods, heterocyclic chemistry, bioorganic and medicinal chemistry, combinatorial chemistry, the study of DNA-agent interactions, and the chemistry of antitumor antibiotics. Barbas Laboratory - Catalytic antibodies, organocatalysis, protein-like DNA enzymes, therapeutic antibodies, molecular recognition of DNA by proteins, phage display. Baran Laboratory - Total synthesis. Butkus Group - Stereoselective synthesis of bicyclic and polycyclic structures.