Ph.D. Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, GPA 3.93

Advisor: Professor Keith Allen Woerpel, Ph.D.
Dissertation Defense Date: June 17, 2005

Dissertation Title: Part One: Using Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions to Understand How a Remote Alkyl or Alkoxy Substituent Influences the Conformation of Eight-Membered Ring Oxocarbenium Ions; Part Two: Preparation of Stable Analogues of Oxocarbenium Ion Intermediates Involved in Selective C-Glycosylation Reactions of C-4 Alkyl- and Alkoxy-Substituted Tetrahydropyran Acetals and Elucidation of their Ground-State Conformational Preferences

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B.S. Biohemistry (minor in Chemistry), Cum Laude

Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Awarded: May 1999, Cumulative GPA 3.56, Chemistry GPA 3.9

Advisor: 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

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