Past DOC SURF Awardees

American Chemical Society Division of Organic Chemistry

ACS Chemistry for Life

Past DOC SURF Awardees

2013 Awardees

	Pete Barnes Sponsor: Genentech/Roche School: Boise State University Mentor: Don Warner Research Project: Toward a Convergent Synthesis of Aziridinomitosenes
	Craig Burt Sponsor: Pfizer School: Williams College Mentor: Thomas Smith Research Project: Asymmetric Synthesis of Enigmazole A
	Masha Elkin Sponsor: The ACS Organic Division School: Washington University Mentor: Vladimir Birman Research Project: An Efficient and Flexible Synthetic Route to Chiral Ligands
	Michelle Ferreira Sponsor: Pfizer School: Swarthmore College Mentor: Liliya Yatsunyk Research Project: Synthesis of Novel Polyamide Derivatives of Protoporphyrin-IX And Mesoporphyrin-IX As Potential G-Quadruplex Stabilizers
	Terry Huh Sponsor: Pfizer School: Bryn Mawr College Mentor: Bill Malachowski Research Project: Synthesis of Bicyclic Rings with Quaternary Centers through Sequential Birch Reduction-Alkylation and Cycloisomerization
	Samuel Levi Sponsor: Merck School: University of Pennsylvania Mentor: Jeffrey Winkler Research Project: The Design and Synthesis of Novel Chloroquine Derivatives to Block Autophagy in Cancer Cells
	Lydia Wolfe Sponsor: Cubist School: St. Olaf College Mentor: Dipannita Kalyani Research Project: Nickel Catalyzed Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation

2012 Awardees

	Ronald Besandre Sponsor: Division of Organic Chemistry School: University of Houston Mentor: Jeremy A. May Research Project: Synthesis of Indoles from a-Arylketones and Amines using Copper (I)
	Alexander Burckle Sponsor: Pfizer School: University of Utah Mentor: Matthew S. Sigman Research Project: Tandem Cross-Coupling using Heck Substrates and Selective b-hydride Elimination to Generate Vinyl Halides
	Blake Daniels Sponsor: Division of Organic Chemistry School: University of Chicago Mentor: Hisashi Yamamoto Research Project: TBOx-Catalyzed Nitroso Hetero-Diels-Alder Reactions
	Bennett Ferris Sponsor: Cubist School: Brown University Mentor: Jason Sello Research Project: Investigation of a Domino Reaction in the Target and Diversity-Oriented Synthesis of a Novel Antibacterial Agent
	Drew Heitz Sponsor: Pfizer School: University of Iowa Mentor: Hien Nguyen Research Project: Rhodium-Catalyzed Amination of Allylic Trichloroacetimidates and the Development of Antiretroviral Analogues
	Rebecca Johnson Sponsor: Roche School: Barnard College Mentor: Christian Rojas Research Project: Using a Copper (II) Catalyst to Achieve Stereo-and Chemoselective Glucal 3-Carbamate Amidoglycoslation Reactions
	Hilary Kerchner Sponsor: Pfizer School: University of Delaware Mentor: Mary P. Watson Research Project: Enantioselective, Copper-Catalyzed Additions of Arylboronic Acids to Chromene Acetals
	Anna Koster Sponsor: Division of Organic Chemistry School: University of Nevada, Reno Mentor: Christopher S. Jeffrey Research Project: Synthesis of Aldol Products through Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution of Aza-Oxyallyl Cation Intermediates
	Matthew Landry Sponsor: Merck School: Princeton University Mentor: Abigail Doyle Research Project: Total Synthesis of Paecilospirone
	Jaron Mercer Sponsor: Pfizer School: Harvard University Mentor: Andrew G. Myers Research Project: A New Synthetic Route to Substituted Tetrahydroisoquinolines
	Richard Thornbury Sponsor: Division of Organic Chemistry School: University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign Mentor: Scott E. Denmark Research Project: Asymmetric Chlorinations of Alkenes Using Chiral Quaternary Ammonium Polyhalide Salts
	Alice Wong Sponsor: Pfizer School: Swarthmore College Mentor: Robert Paley Research Project: Diastereoselective Allyl Silane-Iminium Ion Cyclization Directed by a Planar Chiral Iron (0) Tricarbonyl Diene Complex

2011 Awardees

	Derek Ahneman Sponsor: Division of Organic Chemistry School: University of Delaware Mentor:Donald Watson Research Project: Developing a catalyst for asymmetric alcohol alkylation
	Catriona E. Blunt Sponsor: Novartis School: Smith College Mentor:Kevin Shea Research Project: Scope of a tandem Diels-Alder/Pauson-Khand synthesis for tetracycles
	Adam N. Boynton Sponsor: Pfizer School: Trinity College Mentor:Timothy Curran Research Project: Coordination of a peptide B-turn mimetic to tungsten: possible applications for the study of B-sheets
	Zachary Brill Sponsor:Division of Organic Chemistry School: Columbia University Mentor:Scott Snyder Research Project: Total synthesis of Caraphenols B and C and related natural products
	Taryn Campbell Sponsor:Pfizer School: Connecticut College Mentor:Timo Ovaska Research Project: Studies toward the total synthesis of Frondosin D
	Noelle Catarineu Sponsor:Roche School: New York University Mentor:James Canary Research Project: Synthesis and study of redox- active chiroptical molecular switches
	Marc Giesener Sponsor: Division of Organic Chemistry School: Northwestern University Mentor:Fraser Stoddart Research Project: Multiple successive post synthetic modifications on metal- organic frameworks
	Emily Hartman Sponsor: Cubist School: Brown University Mentor:Amit Basu Research Project: A chemical genetic analysis of galactose biochemistry in growing pollen tubes
	David Kaphan Sponsor: Pfizer School: University of Rochester Mentor:Robert Boeckman Research Project: Studies toward the diversification Of Diels-Alder Reactions of cyclic isoimidium salts
	Victor W. Mak Sponsor: Amgen School: University of California, Irvine Mentor:Kenneth Shea Research Project: A concise total synthesis of (-)-Stenine
	Wystan Neil Palmer Sponsor: Division of Organic Chemistry School: Swarthmore College Mentor:Robert Paley Research Project: Diastereoselective synthesis of bis-spiroketals directed by planar chiral 2-sulfinyl diene iron(0) tricarbonyl complexes
	Ian Pendleton Sponsor: Pfizer School: Eastern Michigan University Mentor:Harriet Lindsay Research Project: Determining the origins of stereocontrol in the Lewis acid-mediated aza-Cope rearrangement-Mannich cyclization of conformationally mobile iminium cations
	Ryan Spencer Shinabery Sponsor: Pfizer School: University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Mentor:Nan Zheng Research Project: Photocatalyzed [3+2] cycloaddition of bicyclic cyclopropylamines with olefins by a ruthenium (II) complex
	Alexander W. Sun Sponsor: Cephalon School: University of Pennsylvania Mentor:Amos B. Smith III Research Project: Synthesis of HIV-1 entry inhibitors: region II/III analogs of NBD-556

2010 Awardees

	Nadia C. Abascal Sponsor: Boehringer Ingelheim School: Barnard College Mentor: Christian Rojas Research Project: A soluble iodosobenzene derivative for 2-amino sugar synthesis
	Juan Carlos Baso Sponsor: Organic Division School: University of South Florida Mentor: Jon Antilla Research Project: Enantioselective reduction of imines; A strategy for the construction of the Dragmacidin core and potential structural analogues
	James Beckett Sponsor: Organic Division School: Kenyon College Mentor: John Hofferberth Research Project: Exploring the versatility of a novel route to the cyclopenta[c]pyridine substructure
	Megan Marie Blewett Sponsor: Pfizer School: Harvard University Mentor: EJ Corey Research Project: C-H functionalization with metallosalen complexes
	Kurt James Cox Sponsor: Organic Division School: University of Arizona Mentor: Indraneel Ghosh Research Project: A synthetic bivalent approach for targeting protein kinases
	Mary E. Daub Sponsor: Cubist School: Williams College Mentor: Thomas Smith Research Project: Asymmetric synthesis of Jerangolid D
	Althea Gaffney Sponsor: Pfizer School: Swarthmore College Mentor: Robert Paley Research Project: Planar chiral 2-sulfinyldiene iron( 0) tricarbonyl complexes as a platform for diastereo- selective synthesis of spiroketals
	Anthony S. Grillo Sponsor: Pfizer School: University of Michigan Mentor: Masato Koreeda Research Project: Development of a novel chiral heterocyclic carbene to be used in ruthenium catalyzed olefin metathesis
	Dennis Hu Sponsor: Organic Division School: Northwestern University Mentor: Regan Thomson Research Project: Synthesis and structure / functional studies of Streptorubin B
	Eduardo V. Mercado Sponsor: Roche School: University of California, Santa Barbara Mentor: Thomas Pettus Research Project: Synthetic approach toward unsymmetrical napthoquinone natural products: B-rubromycin, christazarin, echinochrome A and echinamines B
	Jason Pflueger Sponsor: Novartis School: Columbia University Mentor: Scott Snyder Research Project: The total synthesis of Heimiol A, a Resveratrol-based natural product
	James Phelan Sponsor: Pfizer School: Grinnell College Mentor: Stephen Sieck Research Project: Investigation of N-acyl nitrones and their application in isoxazolidine synthesis
	Katie Schaefer Sponsor: Pfizer School: University of Utah Mentor: Matthew Sigman Research Project: Three dimensional mathematical modeling of modular pyridine ligands for the enantioselective alkylation of ketones
	Jonathan Schultz Sponsor: Organic Division School: North Dakota State University Mentor: Gregory Cook Research Project: Catalytic enantioselective synthesis of chiral allylboronates
	Justin Su Sponsor: Pfizer School: The University of Texas at Austin Mentor: Stephen Martin Research Project: Synthesis of a diverse Protoberberine- based small molecule library for biological screening

2009 Awardees

	Valerie Angell Sponsor: Organic Division School: Union College Mentor: James Adrian Research Project: Developing methods for preparing and testing libraries of pyrrolidine-triazoles: a new class of organocatalysts
	Joseph Michael Azzarelli Sponsor: Symyx Technologies School: Stanford University (Montana State University) Mentor: Barry Trost Research Project: Cationic palladium (II) directed stereoselective β-glycosylations
	Ross W. Cheloha Sponsor: American Chemical Society School: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Mentor: David Berkowitz Research Project: Chemoenzymatic entry into dihydrocinnamayte building blocks and their synthetic elaboration: control of absolute and relative stereochemistry
	Andrew Chung Sponsor: Organic Division School: Harvey Mudd College Mentor: David Vosburg Research Project: Biomimetic synthesis of the Endiandric Acids
	Rachel Dorset Sponsor: Sepracor School: Smith College Mentor: Kevin Shea Research Project: Scope and limitations of cationic Diels-Alder dienophiles stabilized by cobalt-complexed alkynes
	Nathaniel Erskine Sponsor: Organic Division School: Swarthmore College Mentor: Robert Paley Research Project: Diastereoselective synthesis of spiroketals using planar chiral iron(0) tricarbonyl complexes
	Reid M. Faylor Sponsor: Organic Division School: Xavier University Mentor: Richard Mullins Research Project: Asymmetric conjugate addition for synthesis of pilocarpine and related compounds
	Michelle Grau Sponsor: Pfizer School: University of San Diego Mentor: Debbie Tahmassebi Research Project: Synthesis and structural studies of a novel nucleoside analogue
	Joshua Green Sponsor: Cubist Pharmaceuticals School: Harvard University Mentor: Tobias Ritter Research Project: Development of a reaction discovery methodology employing mass spectrometry
	Jonathan James Hulce Sponsor: Pfizer School: University of Vermont Mentor: Paul Krapcho Research Project: A potential therapy for neurologic disorders via inhibition of the endogenous neurotoxin-like protein, "Lynx"
	Lauren E. Kennedy Sponsor: Wyeth School: University of Pennsylvania Mentor: Gary Molander Research Project: Deprotection of potassium trifluoroborates to the corresponding boronic acids
	Cameron Moore Sponsor: American Chemical Society School: Western Washington University Mentor: Timothy Clark Research Project: Copper-catalyzed diboration of ketones; facile synthesis of tertiary α-hydroxy boronate esters
	Joseph Nagano-Gerace Sponsor: Pfizer School: Brown University Mentor: Christopher Seto Research Project: Unlocking glycosidase using an assay of synthetic fluorescent substrates
	Andy I. Nguyen Sponsor: Pfizer School: University of California, Irvine Mentor: Alan Heyduk Research Project: Developing tantalum (V)-imido complexes with redox-active ligands for catalytic amination of C-H bonds and aziridination of olefins
	Shreyas Shah Sponsor: Organic Division School: Rutgers University Mentor: Ki-Bum Lee Research Project: Multivalent nanoparticles as potent epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) inhibitors for glioblastoma multiforme (GBM)
	Shannon Stone Sponsor: Novartis School: Brown University Mentor: Amit Basu Research Project: Click chemistry to visualize the carbohydrates behind the growth of pollen tubes