Dr. Matt Donahue
Associate Professor
Bio
Hailing from Wisconsin, Dr. Matt Donahue earned tenure in 2019 and was promoted to Associate Professor that same year in Chemistry and Biochemistry. His research group, funded by the NIGMS R15GM129751, investigates strategies for the construction of nitrogen containing heterocycles with emphasis on control of stereochemical relationships. Along with Dr. Julie Pigza, he has established collaborations within USM focused design and synthesis of new heterocycles for probing infectious diseases with Dr. Jacques Kessl (HIV integrase) and Dr. Shahid Karim (tick-borne viruses). He earned his B.S. in Chemistry (Honors) from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside working under the tutelage of Prof. Vera Kolb. He earned his Ph.D. under Prof. David J. Hart from The Ohio State University in 2005 and then spent two years under Prof. Jeffrey N. Johnston at Vanderbilt University doing post-doctoral studies.
ORCID 0000-0002-2608-1529
- Organic Chemistry (PHD) - Ohio State University (2005)
Undergraduate:
CHE 255 Organic Chemistry 1
CHE 256 Organic Chemistry 2
CHE 392 Introduction to Research
CHE 496 Senior Capstone Research
CHE 496H Honors College Senior Keystone Research
Graduate:
CHE 652 Advanced Organic Chemistry
CHE 751 Physical Organic Chemistry
CHE 791 Graduate Research
CHE 898 Graduate Dissertation Research
- Recent Developments in the Synthesis of Cyclic Guanidine Alkaloids, Progress in Heterocyclic Chemistry, 2014,
- Synthesis of [C-13(6)]3,4-diaminobenzoic acid as a precursor for stable isotope labeled benzimidazoles, TETRAHEDRON LETTERS, 2017,
- An intramolecular para-phenolic allylation free radical cyclization strategy for the synthesis of alkaloids and terpenes with spiro[4.5] decane architectures, TETRAHEDRON LETTERS, 2017,
- Quinolines from the cyclocondensation of isatoic anhydride with ethyl acetoacetate: preparation of ethyl 4-hydroxy-2-methylquinoline-3-carboxylate and derivatives., Beilstein journal of organic chemistry, 2018,
- Investigation of the Thioamide Variant of Kagan’s Amide as a Chiral Solvating Agent for Differentiation of α-Methylbenzylamides by 1H NMR Spectroscopy, Organic Letters,
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- Synthesis and Evaluation of Aryl Quinolines as HIV-1 Integrase Multimerization Inhibitors., ACS medicinal chemistry letters, 2018,
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