DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY

Oliver Muscio

 

B.S.-University of California-Berkeley
Ph.D.-University of California-Los Angeles

Professor
Organic Chemistry
Office:  414 Blackburn
Phone:  270-809-6597
E-mail:  oliver.muscio@murraystate.edu

HOMEPAGE

Dr. Muscio's interests include both mechanistic and synthetic organic chemistry, with current emphasis on aromatic nucleophilic substitution, particularly the acid and buffer catalyzed and neutral hydrolyses of halo-substituted aromatic nitrogen heterocycles. Projects have been funded by the Petroleum Research Fund, Research Corporation, and the MSU Committee for Institutional Studies and Research (CISR), as well as the R. T. Vanderbilt Co. Inc., and the Fats and Proteins Research Foundation, Inc.

 

Selected Publications

Brattesani, A. J.; Maverick, E.; Muscio, O. J., Jr.; Jacobs, T. L. "Dimerization of Substituted 1,3-Diarylallenes," J. Org. Chem. 1992, 57, 7346-7349. 

Muscio, O. J., Jr.; Meng, J.; Wang, H; Shi, S. "Hydrolyses of 2- and 4-Fluoro N-Heterocycles. 4. Proton Inventories of the Hydrolyses of 2-Fluoro-1-methylpyridinium Iodide, 4-Fluoroquinaldine, and 2-Chloro-1-methylpyrimidinium Triflate," J. Org. Chem. 1992, 57, 6454-6459. 

O. J. Muscio; P.G. Theobald; D.R. Rutherford "Hydrolyses of 2- and 4-Fluoro-N-Heterocycles. 3. Nucleophilic Catalysis by Buffer Bases in the General Acid Catalyzed Hydrolysis of 4-Fluoroquinaldine," J. Org. Chem. 1989, 54, 166-171. 

O. J. Muscio; D. R. Rutherford "Hydrolyses of 2- and 4-Fluoro-N-Heterocycles. 2. Nucleophilic Catalysis by Buffer Bases in the Hydrolysis of 2-Fluoro-1-methylpyridinium Iodide," J. Org. Chem. 1987, 52, 5194-5198.

 

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