272 Brown Laboratories
University of Delaware
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Born: 10/09/1971 in Philadelphia, PA
 

Education

1993-1998 Columbia University, New York, NY 10027
Degrees Awarded: Ph.D, 1998; M.Phil, 1997; M.A., 1994
Advisor:  Prof. Thomas J. Katz

1989-1993  Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544
A. B., Chemistry
Advisor:  Prof. Maitland Jones, Jr.
 

Research Experience

July 2001-present                 Assistant Professor, University of Delaware, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
 

August 1998-May 2001       NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, Laboratories of Professor Stephen L. Buchwald
 
 

Fellowships and Grants

2002-2003     University of Delaware Research Foundation Grant

1999-2001     National Institute of Health Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT

1995-1997     Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology Research Fellow,    Columbia University

1992              Pfizer Undergraduate Summer Fellowship in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Princeton University
 

Awards

1998  Pegram Award:  For excellence in graduate research, Columbia University

1996  Columbia Chemistry Department Award:  For the advancement of undergraduate laboratory research

1995  Julian M. Miller Award for Excellence in Teaching, Columbia University

1993  Magna Cum Laude, Princeton University
 
 

Publications

1) Liao, L.-a.; Fox, J. M. "A Copper-catalyzed Method for the Facially Selective Addition of Grignard Reagents to Cyclopropenes" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 14322.

2) Kaye, S.; Fox, J. M.; Hicks, F. A.; Buchwald, S. L. :The Use of Catalytic Amounts of CuCl and Other Improvements in the Benzyne Route to Biphenyl-Based Ligands" Adv. Synth.  Catal. 2001, 343, 789-794.

3) Chieffi, A.; Kamikawa, K.; Åhman, J.; Fox, J. M. "Catalytic Asymmetric Vinylation of Ketone Enolates" Org. Lett. 2001, 3, 1897-1900

4) Tomori, H.;  Fox, J. M.; Buchwald, S. L. "An Improved Synthesis of Functionalized Biphenyl-Based Phosphine Ligands" J. Org. Chem. 2000, 65, 5334.

5) Fox, J. M.; Huang, X.; Chieffi, A.; Buchwald, S. L. "Highly Active and Selective Catalysts for the Formation of a-Aryl Ketones" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000, 122, 1360.

6) Fox, J. M.; Katz, T. J.; Van Elschocht, S.; Verbiest, T.; Kauranen, M.; Persoons, A.; Thongpanchang, T.; Krauss, T.; Brus, L. "Synthesis, Self-Assembly, and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Conjugated Helical Metal Phthalocyanine Derivatives" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1999, 121, 3454.

7) Fox, J. M.; Katz, T. J. "Conversion of a [6]Helicene into an [8]Helicene and a Helical 1,10-Phenanthroline Ligand" J. Org. Chem. 1999, 64, 302.

8) Fox, J. M.; Goldberg, N. R.; Katz, T. J. "Efficient Synthesis of Functionalized [7]Helicenes" J. Org. Chem. 1998, 63, 7456.

9) Fox, J. M.; Lin, D.; Itagaki, Y.; Fujita, T. "Synthesis of Conjugated Helical Acetylene-Bridged Polymers and Cyclophanes" J. Org. Chem. 1998, 63, 2031.

10) Katz, T. J.; Liu, L.; Willmore, N. D.; Fox, J. M.; Rheingold, A. L.; Shi, S.; Nuckolls, C.; Rickman, B. H. "An Efficient Synthesis of Functionalized Helicenes" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1997, 119, 10054.

11)  Fox, J. M.; Scacheri Gillen, J. E.; Jones, K. J. L.; Jones, M., Jr.; Shevlin, P. B.; Armstrong, B.; Sztyrbicka, R. "The Phenylcarbene Rearrangement as a Source of Real Carbenes" Tetrahedron Lett. 1992, 33, 5021.