Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Performed assays to validate the solvent effects on organocatalyzed ATRP polymerizations and explored the synthesis of novel organic phenazine based photocatalyst.
My thesis work encompassed physical and computational chemistry investigations into intramolecular interactions and orbital dynamics as well as reaction development and mechanistic analysis.
Led a synthetic effort to develop a bi-functional small molecule DNA-alkylating agent with molecular ‘off-switch’ functionalities designed to mirror pro-drug type activity.