Dr. Peter Norris
Professor
Chemical & Biological Sciences
Ward Beecher Hall 6014
phone: (330) 941-1553
Bio
Born and raised in the northwest of England. First degree from Salford University with a year spent at the University of Toledo. Doctorate from The Ohio State University.
Research Interests
Synthetic Organic Chemistry
Teaching Interests
Organic Chemistry.
Education
B.Sc. Chemistry (Honours), Salford University (England), 1986
Ph.D. Organic Chemistry, The Ohio State University (Harold Shechter), 1992
Post. Doc., American University, Washington, DC (Derek Horton), 1993-96
Example Publications:
Six-Membered Rings With One Other Element, Peter Norris, in Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry IV, 2021, p. 725-743. Elsevier.
1,2-Bis(diphenylphosphano) ethane (DPPE)-mediated Synthesis of Glycosyl Amides, D.P. Temelkoff, A. Gabba, and P. Norris in Carbohydrate Chemistry: Proven Synthetic Methods, Volume 4, 2017, CRCPress.
1,3,4-Tri-O-acetyl–2-N-(trifluoroacetyl)-beta-L-fucose. D. C. McCutcheon, P. Norris and M. Zeller, Acta. Cryst. E. 2014, E70, o134. (Structure Communication).
Azidonitration of di-O-acetyl-L-fucal; X-ray crystal structures of intermediate azidodeoxysugars and of the bacterial aminosugar N-acetyl-L-fucosamine, A.-B. Alhassan, D. C. McCutcheon, M. Zeller, and P. Norris, J. Carbohydr. Chem., 2012, 31, 371-383.
Synthesis of a D-glucopyranosyl azide: spectroscopic evidence for stereochemical inversion in the SN2 reaction, O. G. Adesoye, I. N. Mills, J. A. Jackson, and P. Norris, J. Chem. Ed., 2012, 89, 943-945.
Reactions of several monosaccharide-derived alcohols with p-acetamidobenzenesulfonyl azide and DBU, I. A. Sacui and P. Norris, Tetrahedron Lett., 2011, 52, 2670- 2672.
Rhodium(II)-catalyzed decomposition of 3-O-(2-diazo-2-phenylacetyl)-1,2;5,6-di-Oisopropylidene-alpha-D-allofuranose; diastereoselective ether formation, I. A. Sacui, M. Zeller, and P. Norris, Carbohydr. Res., 2008, 343, 1819-1823.