Jamison Group at MIT

 

 

 

 

 

 
Jeffery A. Byers

Education:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007 - present
postdoctoral associate with Prof. Timothy F. Jamison
Ph.D.

California Institute of Technology, 2007
“Synthetic and mechanistic studies into the kinetic resolution of alpha-olefins using C1- and C2- symmetric zirconocene polymerization catalysts”
with Prof. John E. Bercaw
B.A.

Washington University in St. Louis
Bachelors of Arts, Chemistry (minor, English)
with Karen L. Wooley and Raymond E. Arvidson

Other experience:

Research Scientist, 2000-2001
Stereotaxis Inc., St. Louis, MO
 

Current research:

Mechanistic investigation into epoxide cascade reactions directed towards the synthesis of ladder polyether natural products.
 

Publications:

  • Morten, Christopher J.; Byers, Jeffery A.; Van Dyke, Aaron R.; Vilotijevic, Ivan; Jamison, Timothy F. "The development of endo-selective epoxide-opening cascades in water" Chem. Soc. Rev. 2010 in press

  • Byers, Jeffery A.; Jamison, Timothy F. "On the Synergism Between H2O and a Tetrahydropyran Template in the Regioselective Cyclization of an Epoxy Alcohol" Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2009, 131(18), 6383–6385.

  • Min, Endy Y.-J.; Byers, Jeffery A.; Bercaw, John E. "Catalyst Site Epimerization during the Kinetic Resolution of Chiral alpha-Olefins by Polymerization" Organometallics, 2008, 27, 2179–2188.

  • Byers, Jeffery A.; Bercaw, John E. “Kinetic resolution of racemic a-olefins with ansa-zirconocene polymerization catalysts: Enantiomorphic site vs. chain end control” Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 2006, 103(43), 15289-15294.
  • Ehlmann, Bethany L.; Arvidson, Raymond E.; Jolliff Bradly L.; Johnson, Sara S.; Ebel, Brian; Lovenduski, Nicole.; Morris, Julie D.; Byers, Jeffery A.; Snider, Nathan A.; Criss, Robert E. “Hydrologic and isotopic modeling of alpine Lake Waiau, Mauna Kea, Hawaii” Pacific Science 2005, 59(1), 1-15.           
  • Bolton, Daniel H.; Goetz, Jon M.; Gan, Daoji; Byers, Jeffrey A.; Poliks, Barbara; Wooley, Karen L.; Schaefer, Jacob.  “Chain Dynamics in Linear and Hyperbranched Phenol-Polycarbonates” Macromolecules 2003, 36(7), 2368-2373.
  • Bolton, Daniel H.; Byers, Jeffery A.; Gan, Daoji; Goetz, Jon M.; Poliks, Barbara; Schaefer, Jacob; Wooley, Karen L. “The synthesis and study of isomeric linear and hyperbranched polycarbonates” Polymer Preprints 2003, 44(1), 760.
  • O'Connor, Robert D.; Poliks, Barbara; Bolton, Daniel H.; Goetz, Jon M.; Byers, Jeffery A.; Wooley, Karen L.; Schaefer, Jacob.  “Chain Packing in Linear Phenol-Polycarbonate by 13C{2H} REDOR” Macromolecules 2002, 35(7), 2608-2617.

  • O'Connor, Robert D.; Byers, Jeffery A.; Arnold, William D.; Oldfield, Eric; Wooley, Karen L.; Schaefer, Jacob.  “Chain Packing in Ethoxyphenyl-Polycarbonate by 13C{2H} REDOR”, Macromolecules 2002, 35(7), 2618-2623.
   
 

Contact: jabyers at mit dot edu