Loyola University Maryland

Dr. Jesse D. More

Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Donnelly Science Center 326

(410)-617-2469

Jesse More grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and received his BS in Chemistry from John Carroll University in 1998.  He then went on to earn an MS (2001) and a Ph.D. (2004) in Organic Chemistry from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).  After one year of postdoctoral research at UCSD, he joined the Chemistry faculty of Loyola College as an assistant professor.  He currently teaches Organic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry Lab, General Chemistry, and Organic Synthesis and Spectroscopy. 

Area of Specialty: Synthetic Organic Chemistry

Research Interests:  Synthesis of natural products, medicinal chemistry, synthetic methodology.

My students and I are actively engaged in the synthesis of several biologically active molecules.  Some examples of our target molecules are shown below.

Publications:

1. More, J.D.; Campbell, M.G. Reaction of acetylated carbohydrates with trimethylaluminum; concise synthesis of 1,2-O-isopropylidene ribofuranose.  Tetrahedron Letters, 2009, 50, 2617-2619.

2. More, J. D. Synthesis of the Commercial Antidepressant Moclobemide. Journal of Chemical Education, 2008, 85, 1424-1425.

3. More, J. D. Synthesis of Furopyranyl Pyrimidine Natural Products. A Review. Organic Preparations and Procedures International, 2007, 39, 107-134.

4. More, J. D.; Finney, N. S. Synthesis of the Bicyclic Core of the Nucleoside Antibiotic Octosyl Acid A. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2006, 71, 2236-2241.

5. More, J.D.; Finney, N.S.  Stereoselective Synthesis of  the Core Stuctures of the Polyoxin and Nikkomycin Antibiotics. Synlett 2003, 1307-1310.

6. More, J. D.; Finney, N. S. A Simple and Advantageous Protocol for the Oxidation of Alcohols with o-Iodobenzoic Acid (IBX). Org. Lett. 2002, 4, 3001-3003.

Courses Taught:

Organic Chemistry I (CH 301) and II (CH 302) 

Organic Chemistry Lab I (CH 307) and II (CH 308)

General Chemistry I (CH 101) and II (CH 102)

Organic Synthesis and Spectroscopy (CH 406)

Organic Chemistry Links:

Links to Organic Synthesis Research Groups

Challenging Problems in Organic Chemistry (D. A. Evans, Harvard)

Named Reagents in Organic Chemistry (H. Reich, UW Madison)

Reviews of Various Reagents (Y. Kobayashi, UCSD)

Advanced Organic Chemistry Handouts (A. G. Myers, Harvard) 

Mechanism Problems (T. Fukuyama, U. Tokyo)

Organic Chemistry Technique Website (A. Frontier, Rochester)

Digital Lab Techniques Manual (MIT)

Organic Chemistry Virtual Textbook

Basic Organic Chemistry Practice Problems

NMR Practice Problems (UCLA)

Organic Structure Elucidation Workbook (Notre Dame)

Organic Chemistry Journals