Scott A Van ArmanProfessor of Chemistry

Education

B.S. Michigan State University

Ph.D. Ohio State University

 

Research

We are interested in the development of synthetic methods; from reductive amination with polyamines in the development of novel fluorescent chemosensors, to selective oxidation, and biomimetic transfer hydrogenation.  Most recently our work has been focused on the study of conditions for the effective and selective transfer hydrogenation to alkenes conjugated to carbonyls and analogs.  The use of a Hantzsch amide developed in our laboratory has led to methodology that does not require chromatography, a significant advantage over the use of the well known Hantzsch ester.

 

Publications

1996 - Present

(Undergraduate student coauthor are in bold.)

Van Arman, S. A.; Zimmet, A. J.; Murray, I. E. A Hantzsch Amido Dihydropyridine as a Transfer Hydrogenation Reagent for α,β-Unsaturated Ketones.  The Journal of Organic Chemistry  2016, 81, 3528.

Van Arman, S. A. 2-Methyl-2-propanol as Solvent for o-Iodoxybenzoic Acid (IBX) Oxidation of 1° Alcohols to Aldehydes. Tetrahedron Letters  2009, 50, 4693-4595.

Van Arman, S. A.; Sisk, T. M.;  Zawrotny, D. M. A Novel Mechanism of Specificity of Response in Ratiometric Fluorescence Sensing of d10 Metal Ions. Letters in Organic Chemistry  2005, 90, 488-496.

Van Arman, S. A.; Alfare, K.;  Lee, D.;  Scharrer, E. Preparation of Azo Dyes from Sulfanilamide. The Chemical Educator  2004, 9, 1-2.

Zawrotny, D. M.;  Carlson, E. M.; Sisk, T. M.; Van Arman, S. A. Conformationally Mobile Structures as Fluorescent Chemosensors for Metal Ions in Aqueous Solution. Proceedings of SPIE  1999.

Fluck, R. A.; Leber, P. A.; Lieser, J. D.; Neary, D. A.; Pike, C. S.; Singhal, R.;  Van Arman, S. A. Auxin-choline Conjugates and Cholinesterase in Pisum sativum, J. Plant Physiology (Suppl.)  1998, 129

Arnold, G.;  Van Arman, S. A. A New Heterotopic Allostere With Low Preorganization. Tetrahedron Letters  1997, 38, 4745-8.

Pfennig, B.W.; Newirth, T.L.; Van Arman, S. A. Synthesis, Characterization, and Luminescence Properties of Anthrylpolyamines. The Chemical Educator  1997, 2(4), 1-18.

Van Arman, S. A.; Thomsen, M. W. HPLC for Undergraduate Introductory Laboratories. J. Chem. Educ.  1997, 74, 49-50.

Sclafani, J. A.; Maranto, M. T.; Sisk, T. M.; Van Arman, S. A. Terminal Alkylation of Linear Polyamines. J. Org. Chem.  1996, 61, 3221-2.

Sclafani, J. A.; Maranto, M. T.; Sisk, T. M.; Van Arman, S. A. An Aqueous Ratiometric Fluorescence Probe for Zn(II). Tetrahedron Letters  1996, 37, 2193-6.

 

Courses Taught

CHM 111 - General Chemistry I: Picturing the Atomic World, Lecture & Lab

CHM 112 - General Chemistry II: Reactions in the Atomic World, Lecture & Lab

CHM 211 - Organic Chemistry I: Structure and Function of Carbon-Containing Compounds & Lab

CHM 212 - Organic Chemistry II: Reactivity and Synthesis of Organic Molecules & Lab