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Learning through collaborative work towards the pursuit of shared goals is ultimately what makes life both rewarding and fulfilling. Interested in expanding my horizons in chemistry through meaningful work towards impactful therapeutics. Industry: solid-phase OBOC (one-bead-one-compound) combinatorial chemistry towards chemical library production. Management of 200+ building blocks, including: selection based on desirable medicinal chemistry properties, securing suppliers based on cost & availability, procurement of building blocks with proper internal registration, validation studies on umol scale on 96-well plate format, data analysis via UPLC, and communication across teams in a dynamic cross-functional environment. Graduate Studies: Organic chemist with expertise in the reactivity of 1,2,3-triazine heterocycles. Synthesis of variously substituted 1,2,3-triazines, inverse electron demand Diels–Alder reaction with amidine dienophiles, reaction optimization, defining an expansive cycloaddition scope, and measuring reaction rate constants with 1H NMR. Exploration of electrophilic character of 1,2,3-triazines through nucleophilic addition of secondary amines to generate trans β-aminoenals, defining scope of amines that participate in the reaction (including non-nucleophilic imidazole), resolving observed rotomeric resonances with variable temperature NMR and thus removing ambiguity regarding geometric isomers in previous reports of the same products. Broader interests span other fields of physical sciences and geography, including astronomy, astrobiology, planetary science, climatology, meteorology, and oceanography. Open to interdisciplinary research opportunities regarding such wide-ranging topics, especially from the perspective of the fundamental chemical interactions that drive these processes.

Listed skills include Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Hplc, Analytical Chemistry, and 16 others.