Michael Justik, Ph.D.

Mike Justik
Associate Professor, Chemistry
35 Hammermill

Mailing Address:
PENN STATE BEHREND
1 PRISCHAK BUILDING
ERIE PA 16563

Teaching Specialties

  • Organic Chemistry
  • Spectroscopy

Research 

Research Interests

  • Chemistry of Organic Hypervalent Iodine Compounds
  • Solid Phase Organic Synthesis
  • Oxidation Chemistry

Funded Projects and Grants

  • Oxidations of Acetylenes with H-1-Hydroxy-5-methyl-1,2,3-benziodoxathiole 3,3-Dioxide, A “Green” Alternative to Koser’s Reagent. Penn State Behrend Research Incentive Grant Program for Early Career Faculty. $2,500. 2006-2007.

Synthesis of novel hypervalent iodine compounds, their structural characterization and study as oxidants in organic chemistry.

Electrochemical Investigation of the Oxidation of Phenolic Compounds Using Hypervalent Iodine Oxidants, ACS Omega
Collaborator: Jason Bennett, Author

Structural Hypervalent Iodine Chemistry, Patai's Chemistry of the Functional Groups - April, 2018

Halogens, Annual Reports on the Progress of Chemistry, Section A - October, 2013

Halogens, Annual Reports on the Progress of Chemistry, Section A - November, 2012

Halogens - 2011

Halogens, Annual Reports on the Progress of Chemistry, Section A: Inorganic Chemistry - 2010

Noble Gases, Annual Reports on the Progress of Chemistry, Section A: Inorganic Chemistry - 2010

Stereoselective Synthesis and X-ray Structures of Alkeyliodonium Salts with a Pyridine N-Oxide Moiety, Synthesis - 2010
Collaborators: S. Kristufek; J. Protasiewicz, Co-Author; N. Deligonul

Halogens and Noble Gases, Annual Reports on the Progress of Chemistry, Section A: Inorganic Chemistry - 2009

Oxidative Rearrangements of 2'-hydroxychalcones with 1H-1-hydroxy-5-methyl-1, 2, 3-benziodoxathiole 3,3-dioxide, Heterocyclic Communications - 2009
Collaborator: A. Zimmerman

Preparation and X-ray Structures of 2-[(ayl)iodonio]benzenesulfonates: Novel Diaryliodonium Betaines, Tetrahedron Letters - 2009
Collaborators: J. Protasiewicz, Co-Author; J. Updegraff, Co-Author

Halogens and Noble Gases, Annual Reports on the Progress of Chemistry, Section A: Inorganic Chemistry - 2008

Oxidative Rearrangements of Aryl Alkanones with 1H-1-hydroxy-5-methyl-1-2-3-benziodoxathiole 3-3-Dioxide A "Green" Analog of Koser's Reagent, Tetrahedron Letters - 2007

Ortho-Phosphoryl Stabilized Hypervalent Iodosyl- and Iodyl-Benzene Reagents, Tetrahedron Letters - June, 2005
Collaborators: B. Meprathu; J. Protasiewicz, Co-Author

Application of [Hydroxy(tosyloxy)iodo]Benzene in the Wittig-Ring Expansion Sequence for the Synthesis of ß-benzocycloalkanones from ?-benzocycloalkanones, Molecules - January, 2005
Collaborator: G. Koser, Co-Author

Oxidative Rearrangement of Arylalkenes with [hydroxy(tosyloxy)iodo]Benzene in 95% Methanol: A General Regiospecific Synthesis of ?-aryl Ketones, Tetrahedron Letters - 2004
Collaborator: G. Koser, Co-Author

Functionalization of Carboxylic Anhydrides at ?-Carbon with Hypervalent Iodine Reagents: One-Pot Conversion of Anhydrides to 2-sulfonyloxycarboxylate Esters, Tetrahedron Letters - 2001
Collaborators: J. Goff; G. Foser, Co-Author

Ph D, Chemistry, The University of Akron

BS, Chemistry, The University of Akron