Elijah J. St Germain, Ph.D.
Senior Instructor
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Boca Raton Campus | PS 333
Research Interests
- Mechanistic investigation of 5-endo-dig cyclizations catalyzed by tetraalkylammonium salts
- Diastereomeric induction in reactions of substituted allenoates and synthesis of bicyclic medicinal compounds
- Development of teaching innovations and delivery models for undergraduate organic chemistry
Recent Publications
Bollinger, W. L.; St. Germain, E. J.; Maki, S. L.; Sial, N. K.; Lepore, S. D.; Dawson-Scully, (2019) ACS Chemical Neuroscience, 10(1), 221-225.
St. Germain, E. J., Horowitz, A., Rucco, D., Rezler, E., Lepore, S. D. (2017) A Teaching Experiment to Elucidate a Cation-Ï€ Effect in an Alkyne Cycloaddition Reaction and Illustrate Hypothesis Driven Design of Experiments The Journal of Chemical Education 94(2), 240-243.
Nagy, E., St. Germain, E. S., Cosme, P., Maity, P., Terentis, A. C., & Lepore, S. D. (2016). Ammonium catalyzed cyclitive additions: evidence for a cation–π interaction with alkynes. Chemical Communications, 52(11), 2311-2313.
Bhat, B. A., Maki, S. L., St. Germain, E. J., Maity, P., & Lepore, S. D. (2014). Annulation Reactions of Allenyl Esters: An Approach to Bicyclic Diones and Medium-Sized Rings. The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 79(19), 9402-9407.