Curriculum
Vitae
Stephen Chamberland,
Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Research
Associate
Department of Chemistry, Colorado
State
University, Fort Collins, CO 80523
Phone: (970) 491-6668
E-mail:
stephenchamberland@hotmail.com
Anticipated
Availability: 2006-2007
Citizenship: United States
Primary
Career Objective:
Full-time
Ph.D.-level medicinal or synthetic (process) chemistry research in the
pharmaceutical industry
EDUCATION:
Cumulative GPA: 3.6/4.0
Cumulative Chemistry
GPA: 3.9/4.0
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:
·
September 2005
– Present Colorado State University
Department of Chemistry, Fort Collins, CO
Post-Doctoral Research
Associate with Professor Robert M. Williams, Ph.D.
·
Preparation
and
Analysis of Early-Stage Intermediates Proposed for the Biosynthesis of
FR-900482
·
July
1999 – June 2005
University
of California, Irvine Department of Chemistry
Graduate Research Associate
with Professor Keith A. Woerpel, Ph.D.
·
Synthesis
of eight-membered
ring lactones possessing a remote alkyl or alkoxy substituent
·
Exploiting
remote stereocontrol to achieve
stereoselective reactions of
eight-membered ring oxocarbenium ions
·
The preparation and
the computational, spectroscopic, and crystallographic analysis of
stable
dioxocarbenium ion salts for the purpose of understanding the general
conformational preferences of charged intermediates versus neutral
structures
·
May
1997 – May 1999 Boston College Department of
Chemistry, Chestnut Hill, MA
Undergraduate Research
Associate and Scholar of the College senior thesis project with
Professor T.
Ross Kelly, Ph.D.
·
Scholar
of the College
Thesis Title: Total Synthesis of Luotonin A and Studies Directed Toward the Total
Syntheses
of Louisianins C and D, and Ulupyrinone
PUBLICATIONS
AND NATIONAL PRESENTATIONS:
· Chamberland, S. Using Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions to Understand How a Remote Alkyl or Alkoxy Substituent Influences the Conformation of Eight-Membered Ring Oxocarbenium Ions and Structural Evidence that Alkoxy Substituents Adopt Electronically Preferred Pseudoaxial Orientations in Six-Membered Ring Dioxocarbenium Ions. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, June 2005.
· Chamberland, S.; Ziller, J. W.; Woerpel, K. A. Structural Evidence that Alkoxy Substituents Adopt Electronically Preferred Pseudoaxial Orientations in Six-Membered Ring Dioxocarbenium Ions. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 5322–5323
· Chamberland, S.; Woerpel, K. A. Using Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions to Understand How a Remote Alkyl or Alkoxy Substituent Influences the Conformation of Eight-Membered Ring Oxocarbenium Ions. Org. Lett. 2004, 6, 4739–4741
· Kelly, T.R.;
Chamberland, S.; Silva, R.A. The Total Synthesis of Luotonin A. Tetrahedron
Lett. 1999, 40, 2723
· Synthesis
and nucleophilic substitution reactions of eight-membered ring
oxocarbenium ion
precursors containing a remote alkyl or alkoxy substituent. Woerpel, K.
A.; Chamberland, S. 227th
ACS National Meeting,
HONORS AND AWARDS:
· Scholar of the College,
· Dean’s List, Boston College, 1995–1999
· Member of the
TEACHING
EXPERIENCE:
·
September 1999 – December 2001
Teaching
Assistant for Five Undergraduate Organic Chemistry Laboratory Courses
and Head
Teaching Assistant for an Undergraduate Organic Chemistry Lecture
Course
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
· Member of the American Chemical Society since
1999
REFERENCES:
Professor Robert M. Williams, Ph.D.
Professor Keith A. Woerpel, Ph. D
Department of
Chemistry
Department
of Chemistry
Colorado
State University
University
of
Fort Collins,
CO 80523
Phone: (970)
491-6747
Phone: (949)
824-4239
Email: rmw@chem.colostate.edu Email: kwoerpel@uci.edu
Professor David L. Van Vranken, Ph. D. Professor Scott D. Rychnovsky, Ph. D.
Department of
Chemistry
Department
of Chemistry
Phone: (949) 824-5455 Phone: (949) 824-8292
Email:
dlvanvra@uci.edu
Email: srychnov@uci.edu