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I am currently working as an assistant professor of chemistry at SUNY College at Potsdam in northern New York State, where I have a web page. I mainly teach organic chemistry, along with some general chemistry and a course on Sustainable Manufacturing. My main areas of research are in green chemistry, exochemistry and use of fluorous biphasic systems. Before this I taught organic chemistry at Johnson State College in Vermont and at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA, USA. I received my PhD in synthetic organic chemistry from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, working in the research group of Prof. James B Hendrickson. I worked on a new pericyclic reaction which can produce benzofurans from phenols.
I grew up in Newcastle, England. In 1981 I received a BSc (Hons) degree in chemistry from the University of Bristol, England. After graduation I went to Fine Organics Ltd in the north east of England, where I worked in R&D, developing manufacturing processes for fine chemicals (pharmaceutical intermediates, etc). While there I also became interested in chemical information (searching the literature and the like). In 1992 I moved to Newburyport, Massachusetts, USA, where I worked as a research associate for polyOrganix, Inc, also developing processes for fine chemical manufacture. In 1993 I came to Brandeis to work for Prof Hendrickson.
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Contact me by email at walkerma@potsdam.edu Last updated 21st July 2004.