
Mailing Address:
PENN STATE BEHREND
1 PRISCHAK BUILDING
ERIE PA 16563
Biography
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.
Research Interests
Synthesis of novel hypervalent iodine compounds, their structural characterization and study as oxidants in organic chemistry.
Publications
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
Education
Ph D, Chemistry, The University of Akron
BS, Chemistry, The University of Akron