Angela Tanner

Angela Tanner

E-mail: tanner.a@husky.neu.edu
Department: Chemistry
Advisor: Michael Pollastri

Collaborators: Sri Sridhar

Biography

Angela received her bachelor’s degree at the University of Massachusetts, Boston where she studied fluorination using organocatalysts in Dr. Wei Zhang’s lab. She is currently pursuing her PhD in medicinal and organic chemistry at Northeastern University under the advisement of Dr. Michael Pollastri.

Projects

• Modified silica nanoparticle tracking and imaging via intravital microscopy for Leishmaniasis treatment

Presentations

• A recyclable cinchona alkaloid-based thiourea bifunctional organocatalyst for asymmetric Michael and fluorination reactions, Angela Tanner, Wen-Bin Yi, Zijuan Zhang, Xin Huang, Wei Zhang, University of Amherst Undergraduate Research Conference, Apr 2012

Publications

• One-pot fluorination and asymmetric Michael addition promoted by recyclable fluorous organocatalysts, Wen-Bin Yi, Zijuan Zhang, Xin Huang, Angela Tanner, Chun Caia, Wei Zhang, RSC Advances, V.3, P.18267-18270 (2013)