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Dr. Douglas Armstrong, Professor of Chemistry, earned the BS degree in chemistry, "With Honors in Chemistry," from Indiana University, and the PhD degree in the area of organic (medicinal) chemistry from the University of Iowa, followed by research in the synthesis of penicillins and related compounds at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is active professionally, and serves as the mentor of student research. He is a member of the International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry and of the American Chemical Society, in which he has held offices in the Joliet Section. He is also very active in the "Associated Colleges of the Chicago Area," and has coordinated three courses for that organization. He is also a regular participant in the meetings of the "Midwest Association of Chemistry Teachers in Liberal Arts Colleges," whose purpose is the improvement of teaching chemistry in the small liberal arts college environment. In recent years his research has included a full-calendar-year (Sept., 1999 to August, 2000) of sabbatical research at Purdue University in organic syntheses, under Nobel Laureate Dr. Herbert C. Brown, and under Dr. David Nichols. He has done organic synthetic research during the summers of 1999, and 2001-2005 in large universities and one industry. This has resulted in two publications and one poster presentation, which he has co-authored (with other chemists), as follows: 1. "Quaternary trialkyl(polyfluoroalkyl)ammonium Salts Including Liquid Iodides," Tetrahedron Letters, 44, 9367-9370 (2003). 2. "Pyrrole Syntheses Based on Titanium-Catalyzed Hydroamination of Diynes," Organic Letters, 2004, Vol. 6, No. 17, 2957-2960. 3. Poster #11-PO-12, "Pyrrole Derivatives via Catalytic Hydroamination of 1,4- and 1,5- Diynes," 19th International Congress of Heterocyclic Chemistry, Colorado State University, 2003. |
CONTACT INFORMATION: Address: One University Ave. ONU Box 6047 Bourbonnais, IL 60914 E-Mail: darmstrg@olivet.edu
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