Jamison Group at MIT

 

 

 

 

 

 

Adam Sniady

Education:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008 - present
postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Timothy F. Jamison
Ph.D.

Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, 2008
Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences:  Health and Environmental Chemistry
with Prof. Roman Dembinski

M.S. Łódź University of Technology, Poland, 2004
Master of Science, Chemistry
with Prof. Andrzej Malkiewicz
B.Sc.

University of Łódź, Poland, 2002
Bachelor of Science, Biology
with Prof. Barbara Gabara

Current research:

MIT-Novartis collaboration.

Publications:

  • Sniady, A.; Durham, A.; Morreale, M. S.; Marcinek, A.; Szafert, S.; Lis, T.; Brzezinska, K.; Iwasaki, T.; Ohshima, T.; Mashima, K.; Dembinski, R. "Zinc-Catalyzed Cycloisomerizations at Room Temperature.  Synthesis of Substituted Furans and Furopyrimidine Nucleosides" J. Org. Chem. 2008, 73, 5881−5889.

  • Sniady, A.; Morreale, M. S.; Wheeler, K. A.; Dembinski, R. "Room Temperature Electrophilic 5-Endo-dig Chlorocyclization of Alk-3-yn-1-ones with the use of Pool Sanitizer:  Synthesis of 3-Chlorofurans and 5-Chlorofuropyrimidine Nucleosides" Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2008, 3449−3452.

  • Dembinski, R.; Espinet, P.; Lentijo, S.; Markowicz, M. W.; Martín-Alvarez, J. M.; Rheingold, A. L.; Schmidt, D. J.; Sniady, A. "Fluorophobic Effect in Metallomesogens − The Synthesis and Mesomorphism of Ag, Au, Cu, Fe, Pd, and Pt Fluorous Isocyanide Complexes" Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2008, 1565−1572.

  • Sergeant, C. D.; Ott, I.; Sniady, A.; Meneni, S.; Gust, R.; Rheingold, A. L.; Dembinski, R. "Metallo-Nucleosides:  Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Hexacarbonyl Dicobalt 5-Alkynyl-2'-Deoxyuridines" Org. Biomol. Chem. 2008, 6, 73−80.

  • Sniady, A.; Durham, A.; Morreale, M. S.; Wheeler, K. A.; Dembinski, R. "Room Temperature Zinc Chloride-Catalyzed Cycloisomerization of Alk-3-yn-1-ones:  Synthesis of Substituted Furans" Org. Lett. 2007, 9, 1175−1178.

  • Meneni, S.; Ott, I.; Sergeant, C. D.; Sniady, A.; Gust, R.; Dembinski, R. "5-Alkynyl-2'-Deoxyuridines:  Chromatography-Free Synthesis and Cytotoxicity Evalua­tion Against Human Breast Cancer Cells" Bioorg. Med. Chem. 2007, 15, 3082−3088.

  • Sniady, A.; Morreale, M. S.; Dembinski, R. "Electrophilic Cyclization with N-Iodosuccinimide:  Preparation of 5-(4-Bromophenyl)-3-iodo-2-(4-methylphenyl)furan." Org. Synth. 2007, 84, 199−208.

  • Sniady, A. "N-Iodosuccinimide (NIS)" Synlett 2006, 960−961.

  • Sniady, A.; Wheeler, K. A.; Dembinski, R. "5-Endo-dig Electrophilic Cyclization of 1,4-Disubstituted But-3-yn-1-ones: Regiocontrolled Synthesis of 3-Bromo- and 3-Iodo-2,5-Disubstituted Furans" Org. Lett. 2005, 7, 1769−1772.
   
 

Contact: asniady at mit dot edu