Denyce Wicht, Assistant Professor

Dr. Denyce Wicht

Phone: 617-573-8252
Email: dwicht@suffolk.edu

Office Hours:
Archer 622
W 1-2:30
Th 2-4
By Appointment
 Assistant Professor

 

Research Interests:

  • Incorporating Green Chemistry into the undergraduate curriculum
  • Green Chemistry as applied to organic and organometallic synthesis

 

Education:

University of Vermont  B.A.; chemistry     

Dartmouth College  Ph.D.; chemistry 

 

Employment:

2003-2005   Wellesley College                                                                          Wellesley, MA

Visiting Assistant Professor

2000-2002  General Electric Global Research Center                                           Niskayuna, NY

Chemist; Polymer and Specialty Chemical Technologies

1999-2000   Massachusetts Institute of Technology                                            Cambridge, MA

Postdoctoral Associate

Research Advisor:  Professor Richard R. Schrock

 

Publications:

In Chemistry for Changing Times, 11th Ed.  Hill, J. W.; Kolb, D. K.  Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007. End of chapter Green Chemistry essays and media activities in Ch. 11 Catalysts and Ch. 13 Antifouling in Rivers of Life; Seas of Sorrow.

Platinum(II) phosphido complexes as metalloligands. Structural and spectroscopic consequences of conversion from terminal to bridging coordination.  Scriban, Corina; Wicht, Denyce K.; Glueck, David S.; Zakharov, Lev N.; Golen, James A.; Rheingold, Arnold L.  Organometallics  2006,  25,  3370-3378.

Systems and methods for high-resolution in vivo imaging of biochemical activity in a living organism.     Hancu, Ileana; Amaratunga, Mohan Mark; Wicht, Denyce Kramer; Dhawale, Paritosh; Ishaque, Nadeem; Syud, Faisal Ahmed; Johnson, Bruce Fletcher; Williams, Amy Casey.  U.S. Pat. Appl. Publ., 2004.

Method and apparatus for the rapid evaluation of a plurality of materials or samples.     Potyrailo, Radislav Alexandrovich; Morris, William Guy; Wicht, Denyce Kramer.  U.S. Pat. Appl. Publ., 2003.

Silicones.  Matthew Butts, James Cella, Christina Darkangelo Wood, Gregory Gillette, Rachid Kerboua, John Leman, Larry Lewis, Slawomir Rubinsztajn, Florian Schattenmann, Judith Stein, Denyce Wicht, Suresh Rajaraman, Jeffrey Wengrovius, in Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology.  John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2002.

Hydrophosphination and Related Reactions.  Denyce K. Wicht and David S. Glueck, in Catalytic Heterofunctionalization:  From Hydroamination to Hydrozirconation, A. Togni and H. Grutzmacher, Eds.  Wiley-VCH, 2001.

Synthesis of Molybdenum and Tantalum Complexes that Contain Diamido/Donor Ligands of the Type [(3,5-Cl2C6H3NCH2CH2)2NMe]2- or [(3,5-Cl2C6H3NCH2)2C(2-C5H4N)(CH3)]2-.  Araujo, James P.; Wicht, Denyce K.; Bonitatebus, Peter J.; Schrock, Richard R.  Organometallics 2001, 20, 5682-5689.