Texas Tech University
The following topics were investigated in my time at Texas Tech:
- Computational prediction of the nonadiabatic behavior of DNA bases.
- Direct dynamics simulation of the reaction between carbenes and nitrenium ions with water.
- Post-transition state direct dynamics study of the biosynthesis of abietadiene.
I also participated in the following:
- 2010 Partnership for International Research Collaboration and Education (PIRE), Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain, May 30 - July 23, 2010.
- Mesilla chemistry workshop, Mesilla, NM, February 7-10, 2010.
University of California - Davis
Professional development: “Academic Inclusion, Undoing Marginalization on Campus,” April 10 & 11, 2009
In addition to those topics that produced reports, the following areas were also investigated while at UC Davis:
- Computational prediction of 1H and 13C NMR properties.
- Formation of kinked ladderanes.
- Metal-catalyzed aza-vinyl cyclopropane to aza-cyclopentene rearrangements.
- Rh-catalyzed cyclization of allene-ynes.
- Rh(I)-catalyzed C-H activation/6π-electrocyclization cascades.
- Zwitterionic, anionic and cationic aza-Cope rearrangements.
- Fundamental properties of aziridines.
- (2+2)-cycloaddition of allene-ynes.
- Pericyclic reactions of heteroaromatic systems.