Uttam Tambar, Ph.D.

Uttam Tambar is an organic chemist with an interest in biomedical research. He received his AB degree from Harvard University in 2000, and his PhD from the California Institute of Technology in 2006. He was an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University (2006-2009). He began his independent research career in 2009 at UT Southwestern.

Dr. Tambar is interested in developing new strategies and concepts in synthetic chemistry to address challenging problems in biomedical research. In addition to making fundamental advances in chemistry, he will take advantage of the unique opportunities for collaborative research at UT Southwestern.

Laboratory Website: http://www4.utsouthwestern.edu/tambarlab

Graduate School	Harvard University (2000), Chemistry
Graduate School	California Institute of Technology (2006), Chemistry

• Development of new tandem chemical reactions
• Discovery of small molecule drugs
• Synthesis of complex biologically active natural products

Featured Publications

Total Synthesis of (±)-Trigonoliimine C via Oxidative Rearrangement of an Unsymmetrical Bis-Tryptamine

Xiangbing Qi, Hongli Bao, Uttam K. Tambar J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011 133 10050-10053

Catalytic Enantioselective [2,3]-Rearrangements of Amine N-Oxides

Hongli Bao, Xiangbing Qi, Uttam K. Tambar J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011 133 1206-1208

Tandem Catalytic Allylic Amination and [2,3]-Stevens Rearrangement of Tertiary Amines

Arash Soheili, Uttam K. Tambar J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011 133 12956-12959

Enantioselective (Formal) Aza-Diels-Alder Reactions with Non-Danishefsky-Type Dienes

Uttam K. Tambar, Sharon K. Lee, James L. Leighton J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010 132 10248-10250

A Convergent and Enantioselective Synthesis of (+)-Amurensinine via Selective C-H and C-C Bond Insertion Reactions

Uttam K. Tambar, David C. Ebner, Brian M. Stoltz J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006 128 11752-11753

• W. W. Caruth, Jr. Scholar in Biomedical Research
  (2009)
• NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow
  (2006)
• National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellow
  (2001)
• John Harvard Scholar
  (1999)

• American Chemical Society
• Sigma Xi