Nick Serratore

Time in the Lab

Fall 2013–Fall 2017

Education & Experience

Ph.D. Chemistry, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (2017)

Thesis: Method Development and Mechanistic Insights into Palladium-Catalyzed C–CN Bond Activation and Iridium-Catalyzed Sequential C–O/C–H Bond Activation Reactions

M.S. Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Advisor: Shannon S. Stahl

B.S. Chemistry, University of Saint Thomas (2012)

Advisor: J. Thomas Ippoliti

Douglas Group Publications

Integrating Metal-Catalyzed C–H and C–O Functionalization To Achieve Sterically Controlled Regioselectivity in Arene Acylation. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 10025–10033.

Five Fatty Aldehyde Dehydrogenase Enzymes from Marinobacter and Acinetobacter spp. and Structural Insights into the Aldehyde Binding Pocket. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2017, 83, e00018-17.

Mechanistic Model for Enantioselective Intramolecular Alkene Cyanoamidation via Palladium-Catalyzed C–CN Bond Activation. J. Org. Chem. 2017, 82, 3721–3726. 

Partial Fluorination as a Strategy for Crystal Engineering of Rubrene Derivatives. Cryst. Growth Des. 2017, 17, 643–658.