Group Members

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Chiara Chapman

Concord, NH

Wheaton College

Microwave-accelerated fluoroalkylations

 

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Enrico Mongeau

Nashua, NH

Boston College

Radiosynthesis of  18F PET tracers

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Michael Placzek

Chicopee, MA

Elms College

Development of expeditious radiochemical routes to fluoropharmaceuticals utilizing microwave chemistry and microreactor platforms

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Nadeesha Ranasinghe

Colombo, Sri Lanka

University of Maryland, Baltimore

Microwave and flow-assisted synthesis of medicinally relevant indoles and N-heterocycles
Synthesis and Huisgen type[3+2] cycloaddition of nitrene-derived peptide adducts

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Sara Sadler

Nashville, TN

Mercer University

Synthesis and biological evaluation of selective PDT agents
Radical synthesis of natural products utilizing continuous flow microreactor technology
Protein-mass tag conjugation for radiotracer development

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VISITING SCIENTISTS

Margaux Doyen

Blaise Pascal University, France

The effect of gene-silencing on regulation of alkaloid biosynthesis

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Katharina Mandel

MH Hanover, Germany

Functionalization and biological evaluation of xanthine derivatives as hypoxia driven antitumor agents

 

 

 

 

 

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UNDERGRADUATES

Abigail Alexander

East Greenwich, RI

Expeditious routes to labeled PET ligands and fluoropharmaceuticals through microwave-accelerated fluorodenitrations and nitro dehalogenations

 

 

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Suzanne Burke

Holden, ME

Synthesis of enediynes conjugates for photo-Bergman cyclization

 

 

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Alyssa Calder

Newington, CT

Production of radiolabeled ligands utilizing flow chemistry

 

 

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Ian Doxsee

Eugene, OR

Functionalization of potential anti-tumor agents

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Allison Hillner

Salem, NH

Synthesis of triazoles via continuous flow technology

 

 

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Connor Houghton

Weare, NH

Preparation of radiotracers in a flow microreactor

 

 

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Nicholas Kern

Santa Cruz, CA

Continuous flow microreactor technology

 

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Paige Kozlowski

San Clemente, CA

Continuous flow microreactor technology

 

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Chloe Laverack

Southbury, CT

Production of triazolopyrimidines in a flow microreactor

 

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Jennifer Li

Hong Kong

Identifying unknown metabolites from commercially available drugs

 

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Elise Miner

Milton, GA

One-pot synthesis of indoles via microwave-assisted nitrene insertion-decarboxylation of azidoacids

 

 

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Alex Moeller

Northport, NY

Utilizing microwave and flow technologies for drug design

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Brianna Murtagh

Pearl River, NY

Synthesis of fluorine-labeled analogs of Preladenant

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Allison Murzda

Hampden, MA

Derivatzation of potential Alzheimer drugs

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Benjamin Nicolaysen

Beverly, MA

Development of a one-pot, three-step synthesis in a continuous flow process

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Marissa Reyes

Napa, CA

Photocyclization of enediynes

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Jonathan Savas

Poughkeepsie, NY

Fluoroalkylations of radiopharmaceuticals

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Megan Sheehan

Mansfield, MA

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