MENTORING EXPERIENCE
Chris Watson (Next Position: Graduate Student Texas A & M University)
REU Student, LSU 2013
Jacqueline Shea (Next Position: Graduate Student UC Berkley)
REU Student, Texas A & M, 2015
Heena Ugale (Next Position: MS Student Cornell University)
Visiting Student, IIT Bombay 2015
Sharath C Mollojjala (Next Position: Graduate Student University of Georgia)
I followed their research activities during their stay by (i) defining the topic of research and the experiments to be executed. (bibliography, structure of the thesis, preparing figures, technical writing, reviewing the final oral presentation) (ii) by training on them how to setup high level DFT calculations, generate input file, reading output file (iii) providing them with an overview of different useful software’s and assisting them analysing the result.
MENTORING OUTPUT
- Maji, R.; Ugale, H.; Wheeler, S. E., DMAP Catalyzed Kinetic Resolutions of Axially Chiral Alcohols. Chem Eur. J, 2019, 25, 4452-4459
- Maji, R.; Mallojjala, C.S.; Wheeler, S. E., Chiral Phosphoric Acid Catalysis: From Numbers to Insights. Chem. Soc Rev. 2018, 1142-1158. (selected for cover article)