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Christian M. Rojas
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Christian M. Rojas, associate professor of chemistry, joined the Barnard faculty in 1997 after completing an NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Scripps Research Institute.
Professor Rojas's research interests focus on new methods for incorporating nitrogen into organic molecules and application of these methods to the synthesis of amino sugars.
His work is currently supported (2007-10) by a National Institutes of Health grant entitled "Amidoglycosylation Reactions of Glycal Metallanitrenes." In the previous funding period of this continuing grant, he obtained an NIH Research Supplement for Underrepresented Minorities to support the work of a Barnard student who went on to work as a chemist at Merck & Co. and is currently in the New York City Teaching Fellows program.
Selected Publications
"Ethyl Azidoformate (Update)," in Electronic Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis (eEROS), ed. P. L. Fuchs (Chichester, UK: John Wiley and Sons, 2006)
"Alpha-N-Acetylmannosamine (ManNAc) Synthesis via Rhodium(II)-Catalyzed Oxidative Cyclization of Glucal 3-Carbamates" (with R. Bodner, et al.), J. Org. Chem. 70 (2005)
"Zincke Reaction," in Name Reactions in Heterocyclic Chemistry, ed J. J. Li ( New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2004)
"Iron(II)-Promoted Amidoglycosylation and Amidochlorination of an Allal C3-Azidoformate" (with D. G. Churchill), Tetrahedron Lett. 43 (2002)
"Amidoglycosylation via Metal- Catalyzed Internal Nitrogen Atom Delivery" (with E. Levites-Agababa, et al.), Org. Lett. 4 (2002)
"Photo Amidoglycosylation of an Allal Azidoformate. Synthesis of Beta Allopyranosides" (with C. Kan, et al.), Org. Lett. 3 (2001)
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EDUCATION:
B.A. (With Distinction), University of Virginia
Ph.D., Indiana University
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SPECIALIZATIONS:
Synthesis of amino sugars
Nitrogen atom transfer reactions