Tag Archives: Organic Chemistry

Moodle site has Syllabus

Posted on 22 August, 2010 by Andrew French

Please register for my class on Moodle, (http://courses.albion.edu/) there you can find handouts, notes from class, etc.  I have posted my syllabus there.  handouts to follow. Andrew

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Summer 2007

Posted on 1 September, 2007 by Andrew French

The Summer of 2007 Saw Dr. French continue as summer FURSCA Director, though for only the first half of the summer.  We welcomed two new members to the groups this summer; Teresa Giacomazzi, and William Andert, both who spent 5 … Continue reading →

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Summer 2005

Posted on 21 August, 2005 by Andrew French

The summer 2005 gave us the opportunity to move into our new Building, Kresge Science Hall, nicknamed “the Bruce” after Bruce Kresge, our major donor for the building, and long-time supporter of Albion College.  Three students; Shauna Paradine, Sarah Simmons … Continue reading →

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Summer 2003 – Summer 2004

Posted on 21 July, 2004 by Andrew French

Starting in the summer of 2003 I was on sabbatical.  I was a Royal Society USA Research Fellow at Cardiff University, working with Thomas Wirth.  Craig Streu, ’04, and Joe Heinzelmann, ’04 were in Cardiff during that summer working on … Continue reading →

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Summer 2002

Posted on 20 November, 2002 by Andrew French

The Summer of 2002 saw two students, Joe Heinzelmann and Craig Streu working on the synthesis of a new chiral hypervalent reagent. While they were unsuccessful at completing this synthesis due to the unavailability of a reagent (post 9-11) the … Continue reading →

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Summer 2001

Posted on 20 October, 2001 by Andrew French

The Summer of 2001 saw Amanda Boye, ’02, travel to the University of Cardiff, in Wales, to work with the Wirth Group (Thomas Wirth had accepted a position there in the fall of 2000).  She worked on lactonization reactions with … Continue reading →

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Summer 2000

Posted on 20 August, 2000 by Andrew French

The Summer of 2000 saw two students, Danielle Willsie, ’01, and Sarah Burpee, ’01, travel to basel Switzerland to work with the Wirth Group.  Here at Albion, two students; Jocelyn Jacobs, and Amanda Boye, ’02, worked in my lab on … Continue reading →

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Summer 1999

Posted on 20 August, 1999 by Andrew French

In the winter of 1999, we were invited to collaborate with Thomas Wirth at the Institute of Organic Chemistry at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Rachel, my family, and I traveled to Basel for a summer of research collaboration and … Continue reading →

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Summer 1998

Posted on 20 August, 1998 by Andrew French

The summer of 1998 saw two students working in my lab on this project. Each tried to synthesize chiral nonracemic 3-phenylbenziodoxole acetate. Steve Reitz, ’00 attempted to synthesize chiral non-racemic 2-iodobenzhydrol, an intermediate in the synthesis of the above compound, … Continue reading →

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