Organic Chemistry: Current Research

Organic Chemistry: Current Research
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Scott T Handy

Scott T Handy

Scott T Handy
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry
Middle Tennessee State University, USA

Biography

Dr. Scott T Handy is currently an associate professor of chemistry at Middle Tennessee State University MTSU. He received his BS from the University of Iowa in 1991 and a Ph.D from Indiana University at Bloomington in 1996 under the direction of Professor Paul Grieco. He completed a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University under the direction of Professor Paul Wender. His first academic appointment was at Binghamton University before moving to MTSU in 2005

Research Interest

Dr. Handy′s research has been largely focused in three areas, the continuing development of the intramolecular hydrodimerzation reaction, the use of room temperature ionic liquids as solvents and recyclable supports for Organic synthesis, and the synthesis of polysubstituted heteroaromatics via one pot, regioselective polycouplings on polyhaloheteroaromatics

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