in chemistry from Connecticut College in 2001,[5] conducting research in the lab of Prof. Timo V. Ovaska[6] on the synthesis of tetracyclic terpenoid natural products, including phorbol.
[10] Reisman's work included methodological developments towards a generalized skeleton, using nitrone cyclization and oxindole formation as linchpin transforms.
[11] Reisman was an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab of Eric N. Jacobsen at Harvard University and worked with then-graduate student Abigail Doyle to develop an enantioselective substitution of silyl ketenes onto an alkoxy chloride via an oxocarbenium ion using a novel thiourea organocatalyst.
[14] The Reisman lab focuses on the synthesis of complex natural products and development of new chemical reactions, and the interplay between those two fields.
[28] The group's reaction methodology work has focused primarily on nickel catalysis,[29] cycloadditions,[30] and opening of strained-ring precursors.