Student Projects
Name, "Title", Duration, Post Grad (Degree Program) Listed by Graduation year.
2007-08
Michael Ardolino "Cationic Cobalt Catalysis: Improving upon alpha-olefin dimerization
Type: Honors
Jonathan Freedman "New Synthesis of Chromones"
Type: Honors
Post Grad: Boston University (MD/PhD Program)
David Soohoo "The Use of a Cobalt (I) Catalyst in the Production of Linear α-olefin Products"
Type: Honors
2006-07
Kristen Brownell “ The Synthesis of Enepolyynes”
Type: Honors
Post Grad: Stanford Uniiversity (PhD)
Ethan Van Arnam “Improving Selectivity of Linear α-Olefin Dimerization to Linear α-Olefin Products by Cobalt Catalysis: Attempted Synthesis of Phosphabenzene as a Cobalt Ligand”
Type: Honors
Post Grad: Cal Tech – Organic Chemistry(PhD)
2005-06
Evron Legall Two summers, two semester Ind Study
2004-05
John Haines “Synthesis of Ferrocene Based Lanthanide Sulfonamide Catalysts”
Type: Honors
Post Grad: University of Maryland (MD)
Andrew Parsons “Towards the Synthesis of C2-Symmetric Ferrocenyl Bis-N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands”
Type: Honors
Post Grad: UNC Chapel Hill- Organic Chemistry (PhD)
Lauren Sarno “The Polymerization of COT and Hexadiene using Schrock’s and Grubbs’ Catalysts”
Type: Summer (Joint with Christensen)
Post Grad: St. Georges (MD)
Emma Leonard “Metathesis Route to Bridged Bis(allylindenyl) Lanthanocene Chlorides”
Type: Summer
Post Grad: University of Texas (Masters in Architecture)
2003-04
Laura Phillips "Synthesis of Chiral Disulfonamide Ligands via 1,1'-Binaphthyl-2,2'-Diamine"
Type: Ind Study
Post Grad: Dental School
William Stetler "The Synthesis of C2-symmetric Lanthanide Catalysts Using a Ferrocene Backbone"
Type: Honors
Post Grad: University of Alabama, Birmingham (MD)
James Wilkins "The Synthesis of Tethered Bis-4, 7-diisopropylindene Ligands for Lanthanide Series Metal Catalysts"
Type: Honors
Post Grad: Oxford (Marshall Scholar, PhD), Harvard (MD)
2002-03
Elizabeth Barney "The Use of Ionic Liquids for Lanthanide Reactions"
Type: Honors (Joint with Christensen)
Post Grad: Tufts University (DVM)
Mara Grossman "The Use of Ionic Liquids for Lanthanide Reactions"
Type: Ind Study
Post Grad: Georgetown (MD)
Ariele Hanek "Synthesis of Bis(Sulfonamide)Ferrocenyl Ligands for Lanthanide Series Metal Catalysis"
Type: Honors
Post Grad: Cal Tech (PhD)
Elise Meoli "Enantioselective Catalytic Capabilities of a Lanthanide Species"
Type: Honors
Post Grad: University of Rochester (MD)
Sara Wiltshire "Polyene Metathesis Reaction using Schrock's Catalysts"
Type: Ind Study
Post Grad: UC Davis (MS Forensic Chemistry)
2001-02
Kris Bossee "The Synthesis of Bis-Cyclopentadienyl Ligands for Enantioselective Catalysis"
Type: Honors
Post Grad: U Penn (MD)
Matthew Stanton "Enatioselective Synthesis of Tethered Bis-Indenyl-Metallocene Catalysts"
Type: Honors
Post Grad: Duke (MBA)
2000-2001
Eric Woodbury "The Synthesis of C2 Symmetric Lanthanocene Catalysts through the Zirconium-mediated Coupling of Two Alkynes"
Type: Honors
Post Grad: University of California, Davis, Organic Chemistry (PhD)
Eri Yoshida: "Synthesis of C2-Symmetric ansa Lanthanocenes"
Type: Honors
Post Grad: University of Utah, Organic Chemistry (MS)
1999-2000
Robin Bellanca "Synthesis of Tethered Biscyclopentadienyl Ligands by Zircocene-mediated Coupling of Alkenes and Alkynes Followed by CO Insertion "
Type: Ind Study
Post Grad: Harvard Law School
1997-98
Benjamin Davis "Design and Synthesis of C2-Symmetric Ansa Lanthanocenes"
Type: Honors
Post Grad: UC Irvine, Inorganic Chemistry (PhD 2003)
Jennifer Krumper "Zirconium-mediated Reductive Cyclization of Alkenes in the Total Synthesis of Rosemarinecine"
Type: Honors
Post Grad: UC Berkeley- Organic Chemistry (PhD 2004)
Assistant Professor Idaho State University, Post Doc - UC Irvine, Visiting Professor, Bowdoin College (2009)
Jeffrey Rodhe "Synthesis of a C2-Symmetric Diphenyl Aziridine for Use as a Chiral Auxiliary"
Type: Honors
Post Grad: University of Texas Southwest Medical School (MD)
Jessica Brannon "New Routes to a Cp-based Ligand"
Type: Ind. Study
J. Anthony D'Alessio "Synthesis of a Triendiyne for Titanocene-mediated Cyclization"
Type: Ind. Study
Post Grad: UC Berkeley Graduate School
1996-97
Matthew Weiss "The Total Synthesis of Rosemarinecine"
Type: Honors
Post Grad: Yale University- Organic Chemistry (PhD, 2001), Amgen Inc
Christina Jeffris "Zirconocene-based Cyclization Reactions to Produce Ligands for Lanthanide Complexes"
Type: Ind. Study
Post Grad: University of Washington Medical School (MD)
Michael Kaufmann " Synthesis of Zirconocene Ligands"
Type: Ind. Study
Post Grad: University of Rochester (MD)
Christina Marchetti "A Palladium-catalyzed Route to Decapentaene"
Type: Ind. Study
Post Grad: Johns Hopkins University- Molecular Biophysics (PhD) Post Doc, NIH
1995-96
Benjamin Nolan "Synthesis and Hydrogenation/Cyclic Amination of Imino Olefins by Lanthanocene Complexes"
Type: Honors
Post Grad: Colorado State University- Inorganic Chemistry (PhD, 2000) Veterinary School, Tufts
Michael Miller "Synthesis and Stabilization of Strained Organic Compounds and the Isolation of Elusive Molecules"
Type: Honors
Post Grad: UCLA - Organic Chemistry (PhD, 2000) Post-Doc - Scripps
Scott Sternson "The Synthesis of (-) Rosmarinecine Utilizing a Zirconium-Mediated Ring Closure"
Type: Honors
Post Grad: Harvard University- Organic Chemistry (PhD, 2001) Post Doc, Rockefeller University
Jennifer Krumper "The Synthesis of Decapentaene"
Type: Ind. Study
1994-95
Andrew Gilbert "Synthesis of Chiral C2-Symmetric Ansa-Lanthanocenes"
Type: Honors
Post Grad: University of Maine, Forestry (MS)
Heather Standley "Stabilization of Strained Cyclic Organic Molecules through Zirconocene Complexation"
Type: Ind. Study
Post Grad: University New South Wales, Australia- Biology
Rachael Cleaves "The Production of C2-Symmetric Ligands for use in Lanthanocene Catalysts"
Type: Ind. Study
Post Grad: Veterinary Assistant- Anchorage, Alaska
1993-94
Joanne Holland "Stabilization of Strained Species by Zirconocene Complexation"
Type: Honors
Post Grad: University of Pennsylvania- Organic Chemistry (PhD, 1999), Chemist- Biogen
Susan Millar "The Synthesis of Novel C2-Symmetric Ligands for Lanthanocene Catalyzed Reactions"
Type: Honors
Post Grad: University of Rochester- Inorganic Chemistry (PhD, 1999)