Graduate Students
Sara (Massari)
Almansberger (1998-2001)
BS Clarkson University
MS University of Vermont (3/01)
MS Thesis: Diastereoselective Vinyl Addition to Chiral
Hydrazones via Tandem Thiyl Radical Addition and Silicon-Tethered
Cyclization
Subsequent Employment: Research
Chemist, Albany Molecular Research,
Inc; Instructor, Albany College of Pharmacy, Albany NY
Gina M. Fioroni
(1998-2001)
BS Westfield State College, MA
MS University of Vermont (1/05)
MS Thesis: Haloacetals and Ethynylsilanes as
Tethered Radical Precursors for Diastereoselective Addition to Chiral
Alpha-Hydroxyhydrazones.
Subsequent Employment: Associate
Scientist, Mylan
Laboratories, St. Albans, VT
Jun Qin (1998-2003)
BS Sichuan University
Postgraduate studies: Shanghai
Institute of Organic Chemistry
PhD University of Vermont (1/03)
PhD Thesis: Design, Synthesis, and Radical Addition
Reactions of Chiral N-Acylhydrazones and their Applications in Chiral
alpha-Branched Amine and Natural Product Synthesis
University of Vermont 2003 Doctoral Student Scholar Award in
Biomedical, Life, Physical, and Applied Sciences
Subsequent Employment: Postdoctoral
Associate, Indiana University
(P. A. Evans); Senior Scientist, Medicinal Chemistry, Schering-Plough
Research Institute, Kenilworth, NJ
Hui Ding
(1999-2004)
BS,MS Nanjing University
Postgraduate studies: Shanghai
Institute of Organic Chemistry
PhD University of Vermont (11/04)
PhD Thesis: Asymmetric Syntheses of Amines
by Allylation, Cyanation, and Radical Addition to N-Acylhydrazones
Subsequent Employment:
Postdoctoral
Associate, Johns Hopkins University (M. Greenberg)
Sathish Rangarajan (2000-2005)
BS, MS University of
Madras
MS University of Vermont (1/05)
MS Thesis:
Comparison of the Endo- and Exocyclic Stereocontrol Elements on the
Diastereoselectivity of the Silicon-Tethered Radical Cyclization of
Hydrazones.
Subsequent Employment:
Organic Synthesis Specialist, Boston University Center
for Chemical Methodology and Library Development, Boston, MA
Cristian Draghici (2003-2005)
BS Western Connecticut State College
Subsequent Employment:
Graduate student, University of Vermont
Muhammed Irfan Javed
(2003-2005)
BS University of Engineering and Tech,
Lahore, Pakistan
MS Western Illinois
University
Subsequent Employment:
Graduate student, University of Vermont
Tao Jiang
(2001-2005)
BS,MS Jilin University
PhD University of Vermont (5/06)
PhD Thesis: Synthesis of Chiral Amines by
Radical Cyclizations of Chiral Hydrazones and Application to Asymmetric
Synthesis of L-Daunosamine.
Subsequent Employment:
Postdoctoral Associate, The Burnham Institute, San Diego
(M. Dawson); University of Montana (T. Livinghouse)
Alex K. Mathies
(1999-2006)
BS Norwich
University
PhD University of Iowa (12/06)
PhD Thesis: Radical Cyclizations to Imino
Acceptors Directed Toward the Total Syntheses of Aminosugars.
Subsequent Employment:
Postdoctoral Associate, Northwestern University
(K. Scheidt); Research Scientist, Cambridge Major Laboratories, Inc.
(Germantown, WI)
Yaoping Wu (2004-2007)
BS, MS Sichuan
University
MS Thesis: (in progress)
Subsequent Employment:
Graduate Student, Department of Statistics and Actuarial
Science, University of Iowa
Postdoctoral Associates
Dr. Yuehai Shen
(2000-2002)
PhD Shanghai Institute of Organic
Chemistry (Wen)
CREST Postdoctoral Fellow, Tohoku University
(Hirama)
Subsequent Employment: Postdoctoral Associate,
Department
of
Physiology, Michigan State University (D. Wenkert)
Dr. Amy M. Deveau
(2002-2003)
PhD University of Virginia
(Macdonald)
Subsequent Employment: Assistant
Professor of Chemistry,
University of New England, Biddeford, ME
Dr. Mustapha Soukri
(2003)
PhD University of
Orleans, France (Guillaumet)
Subsequent Employment: Research
Chemist, Scynexis, Research
Triangle Park, NC
Dr. Erik Ruggles (2003-2004)
PhD Michigan State University
(Maleczka)
Subsequent Employment: Postdoctoral
Associate, Department of
Biochemistry, University of Vermont (R. Hondal)
Dr. YoungSung Suh (2004)
PhD University of
Nebraska (Rieke)
Subsequent Employment: Postdoctoral
Associate, Department of Chemistry, University of Califonia-Irvine (W.
Evans)
Dr. Jean-Charles
Marie (2003-2006)
PhD Universite Pierre et Marie Curie,
France (Malacria)
Subsequent Employment:
Postdoctoral Associate, Boston University (J. Porco,
CMLD); Research Chemist, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (Cambridge,
MA)
Dr. Zachary Watts (2006-2007)
PhD Australian National
University
(C. Easton)
Subsequent
Employment:
Postdoctoral Associate, Australian National
University
(C. Easton)
Dr. Umesh Mali (2007)
PhD University of Strathclyde
(J. A. Murphy)
Subsequent Employment:
Scientist, Zydus Cadila Healthcare Ltd. Ahmedabad, India
Dr. Chandra
Sekhar Korapala (2004-2007)
PhD Indian Institute of
Technology,
Hyderabad (J. S. Yadav)
Subsequent
Employment:
Postdoctoral Associate, University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill (M. Gagne)
Dr. Lei Yao (2007-2008)
PhD University of Kansas
(J. Aube)
Subsequent
Employment: pharmaceutical research, PR China
Undergraduate
Students
James Manning (2001-2002)
BS University of Vermont (5/02)
Subsequent Position: Graduate
Student, SUNY-Buffalo (Davies)
Anya Gushchin (2002-2004)
BS University of Vermont (5/04)
Subsequent Position: Medical Student, University of
Pittsburgh
Kelly Perry (2003)
BS
University of Vermont (5/05)
Subsequent Position: Graduate Student, Rennselaer
Polytechnic Institute
Zuleika Oquendo (2006)
Continuing student,
University of Puerto Rico, Humacao
Subsequent Position: na