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Peter Norris, Ph.D.
 
  Organic Chemistry

  Professor
  Youngstown State University,
  2004-present
  Associate Professor
  Youngstown State University,
  2000-2004

   Assistant Professor
  Youngstown State University,
  1996-2000

  Postdoctoral
  American University, Wash., DC,
  1993-1996

  Ph.D., Organic Chemistry
  Ohio State University, Col., OH,
  1992

  B.Sc. (Hons), Chemistry
  Salford University, England,
  1986

  Full CV (PDF)

Research
We have a general interest in heterocycle synthesis, especially those derived from carbohydrates. We have been funded by NIH (AREA), the American Chemical Society (both Type G and Type B PRF grants), Research Corporation, and by an NSF CRIF grant for our new 400 MHz NMR spectrometers.


This 14-membered ring product is formed via the Rh(II)-catalyzed decomposition of a sugar-derived diazoester. The X-ray crystal structure of this material has recently been obtained at the diffraction facility at YSU (Malich, Zeller, and Norris, 2008).

YSU Structure Center
Contact:
Department of Chemistry
Youngstown State University
1 University Plaza
Youngstown, OH 44555

6014 Ward Beecher Hall
Phone: 330-941-1553
Fax: 330-941-1579
Email: pnorris@ysu.edu

News:

Our invited review article on the potential of N-glycosidic compounds in medicinal chemistry has been published in Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry (2008, 8, 101-113). Link.

The two chapters we contributed to Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry 3, which is a review of the literature from 1995 to 2007, have now appeared in the 15 volume set. Link.

YSU students with a current YSU email address are able to download the ChemBioOffice 2008 suite (which is used to make the structures and models used in class) from www.cambridgesoft.com - you will need to register using your YSU email address, then go to My Account and click on the Site Licenses link under the Services menu. Click on the Download Site License Software link and you should get to a page with the YSU logo and links to ChemBioOffice2008 for PC and Mac. The most useful components of this package are the ChemBioDraw program, which we use for drawing structures, and the Chem3D program, which is used for the 3D visualization of molecules. These screenshots might help with the download and this short tutorial will help you to get started with building molecules.

The YSU ACS Affiliates Section is looking to recruit new members. Any undergraduate student with an interest in the Chemical Sciences (including pre-Med, pre-Pharm, pre-Vet, Forensics, etc.) is eligible to join. Any suggestions for the affilates' website are welcome at pnorris@ysu.edu.

Undergraduates Tracy Vadjinia, Jonathan Mason, Lisa Jones, and Brook Katzman are featured in a recent YSUpdate. The students spent the summer investigating new conversions of alcohols alkyl halides into organic azides. The work was part of our Petroleum Research Fund grant from The American Chemical Society (Link to article).

Ryan Conway received his MS degree and has moved to a position in Process Chemistry with Roche Pharmaceuticals in Florence, SC, and Adam Cox is now enroled in the Ph.D. program in Organic Chemistry at The Ohio State University. Both completed the requirements for their MS degrees in August 2007.


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