Congratulations, Chemistry Graduates!
We are honored and delighted to announce the following Chemistry degree recipients, on the occasion of Boston College’s 133rd commencement on 18 May 2009.
Ph.D. in Chemistry
May 2009
Dr. Chad J. Dooley
New Nanomaterials for Photovoltaic Applications: A Study on the Chemistry and Photophysics of II-VI Semiconductor Nanostructures
Professor Torsten Fiebig, Advisor
Dr. Sabrina Heng
The Design, Synthesis and Characterization of Enzyme Inhibitors
Professor Evan R. Kantrowitz, Advisor
Dr. Jay M. West
Probing the Mechanism of the Allosteric Transition of Aspartate Transcarbamoylase via Fluorescence, Physical Entrapment, and Small-Angle X-Ray Scatttering
Professor Evan R. Kantrowitz, Advisor
December 2008
Dr. Anthony Belanger
Progress Towards Accessing a C3V [6,6] Nanotube End-cap and Development of a Microwave Assisted Anionic Cyclodehydrogenation Reaction
Professor Lawrence T. Scott, Advisor
Dr. Michael K. Brown
Copper-catalyzed Enantioselective Conjugate Additions of Organometal Reagents to Unsaturated Carbonyls: An Enantioselective Total Synthesis of Clavirolide C
Professor Amir H. Hoveyda, Advisor
Dr. Wei Chen
Understanding the Kinetics Profiles of Phosphatidylinositol-specific Phospholipase C
Professor Mary F. Roberts, Advisor
Dr. Carl Christianson
Understanding the Biosynthesis and Utilization of Non-Proteinogenic Amino Acids for the Production of Secondary Metabolites in Bacteria
Professor Steven D. Bruner, Advisor
Dr. German Alex Cortez
Development of New Methods for Catalytic Enantioselective Olefin Metathesis
Professor Amir H. Hoveyda, Advisor
Dr. Eben Cross
Sources and Transformation of Atmospheric Aerosol Particles
Professor Paul Davidovits, Advisor
Dr. Edward Jackson
Total Synthesis of a [5,5] Nanotube End-cap
Professor Lawrence T. Scott, Advisor
Dr. Andrew Leyhane
Cyclobutadiene Cycloadditions: Applications Toward the Synthesis of Functionalized Oxepines and Guaiane Natural Products
Professor Marc L. Snapper, Advisor
Dr. Wen-Feng Lo
Synthetic Manganese Complexes in the Study of Modeling Photosystem II
Professor William H. Armstrong, Advisor
Dr. Michael Markey
Synthesis of Cribrostatin 6, Santiagonamine, and a N-Acyl Pyridinium Salt
Professor T. Ross Kelly, Advisor
Dr. Stephanie Ng
Investigation of Intramolecular [2+2] Photocycloadditions: Using New Cycloaddition/fragmentation Strategies toward Medium Ring-containing Natural Products
Professor Marc L. Snapper, Advisor
Dr. Paul Widboom
Biosynthesis and Incorporation of Nonproteinogenic Amino Acids into Non-ribosomal Peptide Natural Products
Professor Steven D. Bruner, Advisor
August 2008
Dr. Carrie Arroyan
Harnessing Single Amino Acid Catalysis: Development of the Enantioselective Intramolecular Morita-Baylis-Hillman and Rauhut-Currier Reactions and Studies toward the Synthesis of (+)-Sch 642305
Professor Scott J. Miller, Advisor
Dr. Heather Burks
Ttansition-Metal-Catalyzed Enantioselective Synthesis and Functionalization of 1,2 and 1,4 Bis(Boronate) Esters
Professor James P. Morken, Advisor
Dr. Joshua Sieber
The Tandem Catalytic Asymmetric Allene Diboration/Imine Allylation and the Asymmetric Transition-Metal-Cataltyzed Conjugate Allylation of Activate Enones
Professor James P. Morken, Advisor
Dr. Laura Wieland
Catalytic Enantioselective Synthesis of O-and N-substituted Quaternary Carbon Stereogenic Centers: 1. Aluminum-Catalyzed Alkylations of Alpha-ketoesters with dialkylzinc Reagents. 2. Silver-catalyzed Vinylogous Mannich-type Reactions of Alpha-ketoimine Esters with Siloxyfurans
Professor Amir H. Hoveyda, Advisor
Dr. Yu Zhao
Amino Acid-Derived Lewis Basic Catalysts for Asymmetric Allylation of Aldehydes and Silylation of Alcohols
Professor Marc L. Snapper, Advisor
M.S. in Chemistry
December 2008
Aaron Coffin
Efforts at Expanding the Scope of Peptides as Enantioselective Organic Catalysts
Professor Scott J. Miller, Advisor
Jessica Martinez
Monitoring Allosteric Effector Binding and Homotropic Cooperativity of Aspartate Transcarbamoylase
Professor Evan R. Kantrowitz, Advisor
Li Yao
Development of Catalytic Asymmetric Allylation of Dienone
Professor James P. Morken, Advisor
B.S. in Chemistry
May 2009
Adam Ahern
Paul Catterson
Erin Corsini
Kristen Curtis
BC Excellence in Chemistry Award
Scholar of the College: Toward the Synthesis of a <5,5> Carbon
Nanotube Endcap
Professor Lawrence Scott, Advisor
Michael Dombrowski
Lauren Greb
Zainul Hasanali
Phi Beta Kappa
Merck Index Award
Derrick Ho
Philip Pietrangelo
Conor Sullivan
Brian Trubia
Marie Vitello
B.S. in Biochemistry
May 2009
John Beckley
Maura Callahan
Victoria Chen
Arielle Cimeno
Kristofer Comeforo
Anna Fung
Mykael Garcia
Sean Kelley
Grace Kim
Edward Koellhoffer
Laryssa Kramarchuk
Steven Lin
Carolyn McClaskey
William Morrison
Peter Murphy
Celso Perez
Phi Beta Kappa
Katie Phillips
Phi Beta Kappa
BC Excellence in Chemistry Award
Benjamin Resio
Matthew Shepard
Phi Beta Kappa
Merck Index Award
John Stratigis
Steven Straube
Scholar of the College: Synthesis and Biological Testing of
DNA/RNA Nucleotide Analogs
Professor Larry McLaughlin, Advisor
Bair Tsytsik
