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Biographical Sketch: DAVID C. FORBES
 
ADDRESS AND NUMBERS
Department of Chemistry, Rm. 131,
University of South Alabama,
Mobile, AL 36688
Phone: (251) 460-7423
Fax: (251) 460-7359
email address: dforbes@jaguar1.usouthal.edu
 
PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION
  Bachelor of Science, Chemistry, May 1989, University of Florida
Doctor of Philosophy, Chemistry, February 1996, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Chemistry, July 1997, Trinity University
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Chemistry, July 1998, University of Arizona
   
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
  2008 – present Professor of Chemistry, University of South Alabama
  2004 – 2008 Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of South Alabama
  2003 – present Assistant Director, University Honors Program
  1998 – 2004 Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of South Alabama
   
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
 

University of South Alabama  Organic Chemistry Lecture (CH 201 and CH 202; January 1999 - present); Organic Chemistry Laboratory (CH 201L and CH 202L; August 1998 - present); Directed Studies (CH 394 and CH 494; August 1998 - present); Medicinal Chemistry, Special Topics Honors Seminar (CH 490; January 2002 – May 2005); General Chemistry Lecture (CH 131; August 2002 – present); Honors Sophomore Experience-H (HON 201; August 2007 – present).

   
PUBLICATIONS (post 1999)
 

Note: undergraduate research students are underlined for clarity.

Forbes, D. C.; Bettigeri, S. V.; Patrawala, S. A.; Pischek, S. C.; Standen, M. C. "Methylidene Transfer Agents: Preparation of Chiral Non-Racemic Carbocycles" (submitted)

Forbes, D. C. Bettigeri, S. V.; Al-Azzeh, N. N.; Finnigan, B. P.; Kundukulam, J. A. “Sulfenylation Chemistry using Polymer-Supported Sulfides,” (submitted)

Forbes, D. C.; Bettigeri, S. V.; Amin, S. R.; Bean, C. J.; Law, A. M.; Stockman, R. A.; “Methylidene Transfers onto Chiral N-Sulfinyl Imines,” (submitted)

Forbes, D. C.; Doyle, M. P. “A Guidance Report for Entering Academics in Organic Chemistry,” (submitted)

Forbes, D. C.; Davis, P. M. “Forging Faculty Student Relationships at the College Level Using a Freshman Research Experience“ (in press)

Forbes, D. C.; Agarwal, M.; Ciza, J. L.; Landry, H. A. “Zeroing In on Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution” J. Chem. Ed. 2007, 84, 1878-1881

Forbes, D. C.; Amin, S. R.; Bean, C. J.; Standen, M. C. “Aryl Substituted Sulfonium Betaines:  Preparation and Use in the Epoxidation of Aldehydes,” J Org. Chem. 2006 71, 8287-8290

Forbes, D. C.; Patrawala, S. A.; Tran, K. L. T. “Ionic Liquid Metal-Conjugates:  Formation of an Imidazolium Dirhodium(II) Carboxylate,” Organometallics 2006 25, 2693-2695

Forbes, D. C.; Law, A. M.; Morrison, D. W. “The Knoevenagel Reaction:  Analysis and Recycling of the Ionic Liquid Medium” Tetrahedron Lett. 2006, 47, 1699-1703

Forbes, D. C. “Incorporation of Medicinal Chemistry into the Organic Chemistry Curriculum” J. Chem. Ed. 2004, 81, 975-976

Forbes, D. C.; Weaver, K. J. "Brønsted Acidic Ionic Liquids:  Role of Water in the Fischer Esterification of Acetic Acid and Ethanol” J. Molecular Catalysis A:  Chemical 2004. 214, 129-132

Forbes, D. C.; Standen, M. C.; Lewis, D. L. "Sulfur Ylides via Decarboxylation of Carboxymethylsulfonium Betaines: A Novel and Mild Protocol for the Preparation of Oxiranes” Organic Letters 2003 5, 2283-2286

Doyle, M. P.; Forbes, D. C. “Catalytic Approaches to Ylide Generation and Reactions” In Nitrogen Oxygen and Sulfur Ylides in Synthesis:  A Practical Approach; Clark, J. S., Ed.; Oxford Press:  Oxford, 2002, Chapter 2.3, pp. 141-153

Cole, A. C.; Jensen, J. L.; Ntai, I.; Tran, K. L. T.; Weaver, K. J.; Forbes, D. C.; Davis, J. H., Jr  "Novel Brønsted Acidic Ionic Liquids and Their Use as Dual Solvent-Catalysts" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002 124, 5962-5963

Forbes, D. C.; McMills, M. C. “Catalytic Asymmetric Metal Carbene Transformations” Current Organic Chemistry 2001, 5, 1091-1105

Morrison, D. W.; Forbes, D. C.; Davis, J. H., Jr. “Base Promoted Reactions in Ionic Liquid Solvents.  The Knoevenagel and Robinson Annulation Reactions” Tetrahedron Lett. 2001, 42, 6053-6055

Hodgson, D. M.; Stupple, P. A.; Forbes, D. C. “Reactions Involving Metallocarbenes” In Rodd's Chemistry of Carbon Compounds:  Asymmetric Catalysis; Sainsbury, M., Ed.; Elsevier:  Oxford, 2001, Chapter 3, pp. 65-99.

Forbes, D. C.; Barrett, E. J.; Lewis, D. L.; Smith, M. C. "A New and Efficient Route Toward the Preparation of Diazo Ketones using Cyanuric Chloride and Diazomethane" Tetrahedron Lett. 2000, 41, 9943-9947

Doyle, M. P. and Forbes, D. C., "Catalytic Enantioselective Cyclopropanation, Carbon-Hydrogen Insertion, and Ylide Reactions", in Chemistry for the 21st Century: Transition Metal Catalyzed Reactions, S.G. Davies and S. Murahashi, Eds., Blackwell Science Ltd., Oxford, UK, 1999, Chapter 14, pp. 289-301

   
EXTERNAL GRANTS AND RESEARCH SUPPORT
 

NIH NIGMS 1R15GM085936 “Application of Sulfurane Chemistry in the Assembly of HIV Protease Inhibitors” (priority score 118)

Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, “Application of Sulfur Ylide Technology”

NSF CHE 0514004, “Development of Sulfur Ylide Technology”

NSF INT 0405210, “US-UK Cooperative Research: Decarboxylation of Carboxymethyl Betaines”

NSF CHE 0091795, "Acquisition of Circular Dichroism Spectrometer" (PI Andrzej Wierzbicki)

Merck-AAAS Undergraduate Research Program, "USA Joint Chemistry-Biology Merck-AAAS Undergraduate Research Program" (PI Anne Boettcher (Department of Biology))

ACS-PRF Summer Research Fellowship, "An Approach to the Synthesis of Ingenol and Inenol Analogs"

Cottrell College Science Award, Research Corporation (CC5227), "Chiral 5-Aza-Semicorrins: New Approaches in Asymmetric Synthesis"

ACS-PRF Type GB Research Grant, "Tandem Cyclization-Cycloadditions in Carbonyl Ylide Formation: Analyses of Amide, Ester and Urethane Basicity"

   
SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES
 

Alabama Science in Motion (ASIMASIM is a state funded program which maintains active collaborations between the University and high school science classrooms. Goal is to provide science teachers with curriculum/staff development opportunities by enhancing their knowledge and skills. ASIM provides, at no cost to the high schools, resources for laboratory experiences to be used in the classroom.

 

Assistant Director, Honors Program, University of South Alabama

University South Alabama Honors Advisory Council

National Collegiate Honors Council Awards and Grants Committee

   
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
 

ACS Organic Chemistry Division, 1999 - present
American Chemical Society, 1989 - present
National Collegiate Honors Council, 2004 - present

     

 
         
 

University of South Alabama - Mobile, AL, 36688-0002, (251) 460-6181
Date Last Changed: August 21, 2008
dforbes@jaguar1.usouthal.edu
http://www.southalabama.edu/chemistry/forbes/cv.html