Dan O'Leary

   Professor

   B.A., 1986, Linfield College

   Ph.D, 1991, University of California, Los Angeles

   NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, 1991-1994, Harvard University

   Email: doleary@pomona.edu

   Tel: (909) 621-8444

   Office: Seaver Chemistry Laboratory, Room 208

Courses:

Organic Chemistry (110a)        NMR Spectroscopy (172)        Organic Synthesis (171)    Chirality (120)

Research Interests:

Organic Chemistry; Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. Development of isotopic perturbation methods for detecting intramolecular hydrogen bonds; synthesis and study of chemically modified biological structures.

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 Recent Publications (student researchers underlined)

Model Compounds of Ruthenium-Alkene Intermediates in Olefin Metathesis Reactions.  Anderson, D. R.; Hickstein, D. D.; O’Leary, D. J.; Grubbs, R. H.  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2006, 128, 8386-8387.

Enantioselective Photocycloaddition Mediated by Chiral Bronsted Acids: Asymmetric Synthesis of the Rocaglamides.  Gerard, B.; Sangji, S.; O’Leary, D. J.; Porco, J. A., Jr.  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2006, 128, 7754-7755.

Direct Assignment of the Relative Configuration in Acyclic 1,3-Diols by 1H NMR Spectroscopy.  Anderson, C. E.; Britt, D. K.; Sangji, S.; O'Leary, D. J.; Anderson, C. D.; Rychnovsky, S. D. Org. Lett.; 2005; 7, 5721-5723.

An Isosparteine Derivative for Stereochemical Assignment of Stereogenic (Chiral) Methyl Groups using Tritium NMR: Theory and Experiment.  Allen, B. D.; Cintrat, J. C.; Faucher, N.; Berthault, P.; Rousseau, B.; O’Leary, D. J.  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 412-420.

Structure-Selectivity Relationships and Structure for a Peptide-Based Enantioselective Acylation Catalyst.  Fierman, M. B.; O'Leary, D. J.; Steinmetz, W. E.; Miller, S. J.  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2004, 126, 6967-6971.

Fomenting Proton Anisochronicity in the CH2D Group.  Allen, B. D.; O'Leary, D. J.  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 125, 9018-9019.

Ring-Closing Metathesis Synthesis of N-Boc-3-Pyrroline.  Ferguson, M. L.; O’Leary, D. J.; Grubbs, R.H.  Organic Syntheses, 2003, 80, 85-92.

Using Equilibrium Isotope Effects to Detect Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonds: Structural and Solvent Effects.  Vasquez Jr., T. E.; Bergset, J. M.; Fierman, M. B.; Nelson, A.; Roth, J.; Khan, S. I.; O'Leary, D. J. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 2931-2938.