Christopher Caires

Undergraduate, B.S. Chemistry (June 2003)

E-Mail: cccaires@umail.ucsb.edu

Distinctions
Organic Chemistry Student of the Year, SBCC, 2000-2001
SURF Fellowship, UCSB, Summer 2001
DeWolfe Fellowship, UCSB, Summer 2001
Accepted into College of Creative Studies, UCSB, Fall 2001
President's Undergraduate Fellowship, UCSB, Fall 2001
Roche Bioscience (Palo Alto, CA) Summer Internship 2002

Current Research:
I am currently involved in furthering our group's development of copper(I) catalyzed hydrosilylations of ketones by expanding the scope of the reaction to include hydrosilylations of unactivated dialkyl ketones and aldehydes with trialkylsilanes.