University of Virginia
College of Arts & Sciences
The Tepe Lab
About
Evan attended Capital University where he worked as a teaching assistant in organic chemistry labs and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry in spring of 2020. When not in lab Evan enjoys hiking, rock climbing, and pickleball.
Evan joined the Tepe lab in the fall of 2020, where his research focuses on heterocyclic methodology development and natural product synthesis. He is currently working a synthetic route to pyrazolopyridazines.
Publications
Savelson, Evan; Tepe, Jetze J. Accessing Highly Oxidized Imidazolidinone Cores via a Curtius Rearrangement: Total Synthesis of Colensolide A. Organic Letters 2023, 25, 3698–3701. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.orglett.3c01139
Savelson, Evan; Tepe, Jetze J. One-Pot Friedel−Crafts/Robinson−Gabriel Synthesis of the Indole-Oxazole Scaffold and its Application to the Synthesis of Breitfussins C, G, and H, Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2023, 88, 755–761. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.2c00033