Contact:

Office: 227Dobo [map]
Voice: (910) 962-2429
FAX: (910) 962-3013
E-mail: morganj@uncw.edu

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Education

• B.A., Chemistry (including work on the synthesis of Titanocene polymerization catalysts), West Virginia University
• Ph.D., Organic Chemistry, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Research Area

• Focused in the area of organic reaction development

Professional Activities

• 2/2005 - 7/2007, “Stereocontrolled Synthesis of Functionalized cis-Cyclopentapyrazolidines by 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition Reactions of Azomethine Imines: Application to the Synthesis of Massadine,” NIH Post-Doctoral Fellow and Overman Group Coordinator, The University of California at Irvine (Advisor: L. E. Overman).
• 8/2000 - 12/2004, “Catalytic Methods for the Generation of Chiral Bis(boronates): The Utility of Saturated Carbon-Boron Bonds,” Ph. D., The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Advisor: J. P. Morken).
• PATENT - Morken, J. P.; Morgan, J. B.; Miller, S. P.; Pelz, N. F. ”Preparation of Optically Active Alcohols by Catalyzed Enantioselective Transformations of Alkenes.” (WO2005012209), 2005.