Education:

Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry, January 1995, Indiana University, Bloomington
Dissertation Title:  Synthetic Efforts Toward Lankacidin C
Thesis Advisor:  David R. Williams

B.A. in Chemistry with Distinction, August 1989, University of Virginia, Charlottesville

Other Research Experience:

NIH Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Professor Julius Rebek, Jr.,
Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995-1996,
The Scripps Research Institute, Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, 1996-1997

Recent Publications:

Bodner, R.; Marcellino, B. K.; Severino, A.; Smenton, A. L.; Rojas, C. M.;  α-N-Acetylmannosamine (ManNAc) Synthesis via Rhodium(II)-Catalyzed Oxidative Cyclization of Glucal 3-Carbamates, J. Org. Chem. 2005, 70, 3988-3996.

Churchill, D. G.; Rojas, C. M.; Iron(II)-Promoted Amidoglycosylation and Amidochlorination of an Allal C3-Azidoformate, Tetrahedron Lett. 2002, 43, 7225-7228.

Levites-Agababa, E.; Menhaji, E.; Perlson, L. N.; Rojas, C. M.; Amidoglycosylation via Metal-Catalyzed Internal Nitrogen Atom Delivery, Org. Lett. 2002, 4, 863-865.

Kan, C.; Long, C. M.; Paul, M.; Ring, C. M.; Tully, S. E.; Rojas, C. M.; Photo Amidoglycosylation of an Allal Azidoformate.  Synthesis of b-Allopyranosides, Org. Lett. 2001, 3, 381-384.

Current Grant Support:

2007-2010: National Institutes of Health (R15 AREA Program), "Amidoglycosylation Reactions of Glycal Metallanitrenes"

2008-2009: NIH Research Supplement to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research to support the work of Evelyne Goné (BC '09)

Research Interests:

Development of new methods for incorporating nitrogen into organic molecules and application of these methods to the synthesis of amino sugars.