[3] Crews then wrote and was awarded an NSF postdoctoral fellowship to investigate the stereochemistry of organo-metalloids at Princeton University with the late Kurt Mislow.

Crews uses bioassay-guided isolation to discover natural products that may help treat or cure human diseases, incorporating elements of structure elucidation and employing state-of-the-art nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) techniques.

[10] Crews led and co-authored of the widely-used textbook, “Organic Structure Analysis”.,[11] along with Marcel Jaspars and Jaime Rodriguez.

The “Crews rule” states that if a molecule’s ratio of hydrogens to carbons is less than 1, then additional measures should be performed to confirm the structure.

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[8] This coursework, as well as his keen interest in wine, lead him to found Pelican Ranch Winery[19][20][21] with his wife Peggy (BW CA-W-3444) in 1997.