Kevin H. Shaughnessy Download complete CV (PDF) - updated 04/30/2008 Current Position Associate Professor (2005 - present) Director of Undergraduate Studies (2007-present) Department of Chemistry The University of Alabama Box 870336 Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0336 Phone (205) 348-4435 Fax: (205) 348-9104 Prior Positions 1999-2005: Assistant Professor Chemistry, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL Post-Doctoral Experience Yale University, New Haven, CT (1997 - 1999) Advisor: Prof. John F. Hartwig Palladium catalyzed coupling of aryl-halides and carbon and heteroatom nucleophiles. Development of high-throughput screening methodologies for determining catalytic activity

Ph.D., Organic Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA (1998)
Dissertation: Synthetic and Mechanistic Studies of Metal-Catalyzed Diene Cyclizations
Advisor: Prof. Robert M. Waymouth

B.S. with Honors and Distinction, Chemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (1992)

The mechanistic study of organometallic reactions involved in synthetically important catalytic cycles; metal-catalyzed cross-coupling, catalyst design for use in alternative solvents, green chemistry, metal-catalyzed biomolecule modification, development of new classes of bond activation and formation, biomass utilization.

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