Andrew P. Duncan
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Olin Science Center 314
503-370-6518
aduncan@willamette.edu

Andrew P. Duncan

Education

BA., Middlebury College
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Courses

Research Interests

Chemical Synthesis

Interested in designing new catalytic reactions that rapidly increase the structural and stereochemical complexity of molecules. We apply a variety of organic and organometallic synthetic techniques and make extensive use of NMR spectroscopy and HPLC/GC techniques to characterize new compounds.

Personal Interests

Backpacking, Skiing, Rock Climbing, Food, Wine, Beer

Publications

A.P. Duncan, A.R. ]ohnson. "A 'Classic Papers' Approach to Teaching Undergraduate Organometallic Chemistry" J. Chem. Educ. in press, February 2007.

F.E. Michael, A.P. Duncan, Z.K. Sweeney, R.G. Bergman. "Rearrangements and Stereomutations of Metallacycles Derived from Allenes and Imidozirconium Complexes" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 1752.

A.P. Duncan, J.L. Leighton. "Enantioselective Cu-Catalyzed Conjugate Addition of Diethylzinc to Acyclic Aliphatic Enones" Org. Lett. 2004, 6, 4117.

F.E. Michael, A.P. Duncan, Z.K. Sweeney, R.G. Bergman. "Mechanisms of Allene Stereoinversion by Imidozirconium Complexes" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 125, 7784.

A.P. Duncan, R.G. Bergman. "Selective Transformations of Organic Molecules by Imidozirconocene Complexes" The Chemical Record 2002, 2 , 431.

A.P. Duncan, S.M. Mullins, J. Arnold, R.G. Bergman. "Synthesis, Structural Investigation, and Reactivity of Neutral and Cationic Bis(guanidinato)zirconium(IV) Complexes" Organometallics 2001, 20, 1808.

S.M. Mullins, A.P. Duncan, R.G. Bergman, J. Arnold. "Reactivity of a Titanium Dinitrogen Complex Supported by Guanidinate Ligands: Investigation of Solution Behavior and a Novel Rearrangement of Guanidinate Ligands " Inorg. Chem. 2001, 40, 6952.