MS students — Organic Chem Basics

Peter Norris, Ph.D. · Youngstown State University. 53 M.S. thesis students.

#	Student	Year	Thesis
1	Wei Li	1998	Studies Towards the Synthesis of New Carbohydrate-derived Heterocycles
2	Marty Moore	1998	New Dipolar Cycloaddition Reactions of a Carbohydrate-derived Vinyl Sulfoxide Alkyne Equivalent and a Polymer-supported Alkyne with Azides
3	Scott Freeze	1999	Synthesis and Chelating Properties of a Chiral D-Galactose-derived Ligand and Preparation of Sugar-derived 1,2,3-Triazoles on a Soluble Polymer Support
4	Rob Cicchillo	2000	Formation of C-Glycosides via Dithioacetal Chemistry
5	Dan Berndt	2001	Synthesis and Chemistry of New Sugar-derived Diazoesters and Acyl Azides
6	Andy Fluxe	2001	Studies Toward the Synthesis of Aminosugars Related to Components of the S. Aureus Capsular Polysaccharide
7	Jason McCartney	2001	Nucleophilic Addition of Sugar-derived Dithiane Nucleophiles to Sugar Lactones: New Approach to C-Disaccharides
8	Hud Risley	2001	Chemical Synthesis of Terpenoid O-Glycosides
9	Joe Lisko	2002	Formation of Glycomimetics of N-Acetyl-D-glucosamine, N-Acetyl-D-Quinavosamine, and N-Acetyl-D- and L-Fucosamine Using the Nitroglycal Method
10	Yuriko Root	2003	Synthesis of Derivatives of D-ManAcA: Aminosugar Component of S. aureus Capsular Polysaccharides
11	Dan Kibler	2003	Synthesis of C-Glycosides and N-Glycosides
12	Penny Miner	2004	Synthesis of Diverse Compounds Using Mannofuranose as a Chiral Scaffold
13	Rakesh Akula	2004	Approaches to Pyranose Carbohybrids
14	Mat Maust	2005	Attempted Conversion of L-Rhamnose to N-Acetyl-L-fucosamine
15	Dave Temelkoff	2005	Approaches to the Efficient Synthesis of N-Glycosyl Amides and Triazoles
16	Travis Weaver	2005	Synthesis of C-Glycosides as Carbohydrate Mimics
17	Craig Smith	2005	Facile Preparation of Glycomimetics from Uronic Acids
18	Iulia Sacui	2006	Synthesis and Decomposition of Novel Diazosugars
19	Abdul-Basit Alhassan	2006	Formation of N-Acetyl-L-fucosamine (L-FucNAc) and Analogs as Potential Inhibitors of Staphylococcus aureus Capsular Polysaccharide Biosynthesis
20	Sara Duncan	2006	Towards Glycomimetic Derivatives of N-Acetyl-D-fucosamine
21	Monica Vicarel	2006	Microwave-accelerated Approaches to Pyranose Carbohybrids
22	Ryan Conway	2007	Attempted Conversion of L-Rhamnose to N-Acetyl-L-fucosamine
23	Adam Cox	2007	Synthesis of and Structural Studies on N-Acetyl-D-mannosamine Uronic Acid
24	Mike Evans	2008	Towards Mimics of N-Acetyl-D-fucosamine
25	Brian Dobosh	2008	One-pot Synthesis of Azides From Alcohols Using Microwave Heating
26	Jennie Patton	2008	Carbenoid Insertion Chemistry on Furanose Platforms as a Route to Natural Product Frameworks
27	Kat Pavlidakey	2008	Isolation and NMR Studies on S. aureus CP
28	Ashley Malich	2008	Intramolecular Carbenoid Insertion on Furanose Platforms
29	Dave McCutcheon	2008	Synthesis of and Structural Studies on UDP-N-Acetyl-L-fucosamine
30	Charles Hartranft	2009	“One-pot” Synthesis of Organic Azides from Alcohols and Protected Sugars
31	Lucas Beagle	2009	Synthesis of and Structural Studies on N-Acetyl-D-fucosamine
32	Steve Knapp	2009	Synthesis of Novel Glycosyl Transferase Inhibitors
33	Traci Clymer	2010	Preliminary Studies on the Effects of Glycosyl Triazoles on C2C12 Stem Cells
34	Antony Okumu	2010	Development of a Safe and Efficient Alkyl Azide Synthesis using Arylsulfonyl Azide
35	Olumuyiwa Adesoye	2012	Synthesis of Analogs of Bacillithiol
36	Isaac Mills	2012	Click Chemistry Synthesis of Neoglycooligomers and Neoglycopolymers
37	Philip Adero	2012	Azide-carbenoid Cyclizations
38	Omadee Curry	2013	Reaction of o-Nitrobenzenesulfonyl Azide/n-Butyl Lithium with Hindered Alcohols
39	Angela Kwarkoh	2013	Conversion of Alcohols to Alkyl Azides Using O-Nitrobenzenesulfonyl Azide
40	Caleb Tatebe	2014	Synthesis of Sugar-Derived Esters and Carbamate Compounds
41	Kwaku Kyei-Baffour	2014	“One-pot” Synthesis of Carbamates via Curtius Rearrangement
42	Mike Delost	2015	Synthesis of Amine Derivatives from a “One-Pot” Synthesis of Biphenyl-4-methylazide
43	Cephus Afeke	2015	Chemistry of Acyl Nitrenes in the Synthesis of Carbamates and Complex Heterocycles
44	Philemon Ngoje	2015	Synthons of UDP-N-acetyl-L-Fucosamine (UDP-L-FucNAc) as Potential Inhibitors of Staphylococcus aureus Capsular Polysaccharide Biosynthesis
45	Chris Copeland	2016	Modified Conditions for Acyl Azide and Carbamate Synthesis
46	Emmanuel Buabeng	2016	Towards the Synthesis of Novel Glycomimetics of N-Acetyl-2-amino-2-deoxy-D-mannopyranose Uronic Acid (D-ManNAcA) and Derivatives
47	Matthew LaLama	2018	Rhodium-Catalyzed Decomposition of Carbohydrate Diazo Esters
48	Daniel Kiptoo	2018	Synthesis of Novel N-Glycoside Analogs of D-Galactose
49	Morgan Mayieka	2020	Attempted Azidation of Carbohydrate Secondary Alcohols Using Arylsulfonyl Azides
50	Moffat Ongeri	2020	‘One Pot’ Azidation of Chiral Secondary Alcohols
51	Angela Asor	2020	Attempted One Pot Synthesis of Carbamates of Carboxylic Acids via Curtius Rearrangement
52	Andrew Murrin	2020	N-Glycosyl aza-Ylides as Intermediates in the Synthesis of Novel N-Glycosides
53	Haron Omosa	2021	Studies on Several Diacetone-Glucose-derived Esters