ZHENGMAO HUA
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Cell: 319-***-****, E-mail: acruot@r.postjobfree.com
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Senior Research Chemist
Waters Corporation (Davis Companies) Aug. 2013 - Jun. 2015
Waters Corporation (Milford, MA, Assigned by Davis companies)
Perform wet chemistry to prepare compounds for the analytical chemistry procedure
Initiate, prepare and review quality control procedure for Project Candy Crush
Develop and validate new analytical methods for compliance with cGMP
Develop of UPC2 Torus HPLC chromatography columns for the purification of a range of different compounds
Design and optimize of safe scalable synthetic routes for mass spectrum-sensitive glycoprotein tagging chemicals for HPLC-MS analysis
Research Associate Nov. 2007 - Aug. 2013
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Develop highly potassium sensitive and selective fluorescent compounds
Design and synthesize novel small molecule probes for chemical biology study
Identification of organic compounds using NMR, MS and FTIR
Develop the purification method for the protein-small molecule complex using ion exchange columns and
HPLC instrument
Graduate Research Assistant 2001 - 2007
The University of Iowa
Carried out the synthetic studies toward the total synthesis of Superstolide A, a potential anti-cancer agent.
Completed the construction of cis-Decalin portion of Superstolide A
Discovered a methodology for the stereo-controlled synthesis of substituted [2,2,2]-octanes
Improved the procedure for the separation of or -isopinocampheol, the major side product of the
oxidation workup procedure of Brown’s asymmetric crotylboranate reactions
EDUCATION
PhD, Organic Chemistry, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA Year 2006
MS, Organic Chemistry, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China Year 1997
PUBLICATIONS
Rapid Preparation of Released N-Glycans for HILIC Analysis Using a Labeling Reagent that Facilitates Sensitive Fluorescence and ESI-MS Detection Lauber, M.; Yu, Y.; Brousmiche, D.; Hua, Z.; Koza, S.; Magnelli, P.; Guthrie, E.; Taron, C. and Fountain K. Analytical Chemistry 87 (10), 2015, 5401-5409
Functionalization and Purification of Peptide-toxin Probes for Ion Channels Methods in Molecular Biology:
Chemical Neurobiology Protocols Humana Press, Hua, Z. and Kobertz, W. 995, 2013, 19-30
Chemical control of metabolically-engineered voltage-gated K channels Hua, Z.; Lvov, A.; Morin, T.;
Kobertz, W. Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters. 2011, 21, 5021-5024
Controlling the Facial Selectivity of Asymmetric [4 + 2] Cyclo-additions: A Concise Synthesis of the cis-
Decalin Core Structure of Superstolides A and B. Chen, L., Hua Z., Li, G., Jin, Z. Org. Lett. 2011, 13,
3580-3583
Nascent Peptide Side-chains Induce Rearrangements in Distinct Locations of the Ribosomal Tunnel Lu, J.; Hua, Z.; Kobertz, W.; Deutsch, C. Journal of Molecular Biology 2011, 411(2), 499-510.
Highly Facial and Stereo-selective Diels-Alder Reactions Employing 1, 3-Dienes Derived from R-4-
Hydroxy-2-Cyclohexenone, Hua, Z.; Chen, L.; Mei, Y. and Jin, Z. Tetrahedron Lett. 2009, 50, 6621-6623
An Improved Procedure for the Separation of or -Isopinocampheol, the Major Side Product of
Brown's Asymmetric Crotylboranate Reactions, Hua, Z.; Jin, Z. Tetrahedron Lett. 2007, 48, 7695-7697
Synthetic Studies Toward the Construction of the cis-Decalin Portion of Superstolide A and B. Application
of a Sequential Double Michael Reaction and an Anionic Oxy-Cope Rearrangement, Hua, Z.; Yu, W.; Su,
M., Jin, Z. Org. Lett. 2005, 7, 1939-1942
Improved Procedure for the Oxidative Cleavage of Olefins by OsO4-NaIO4, Yu, W.; Mei, Y.; Kang, Y.;
Hua, Z.; Jin, Z. Org. Lett. 2004, 6, 3217-3219
Negishi Coupling between α-Alkyl(aryl)thio Vinyl Zinc Chloride and α -Bromo Vinyl Ether: A
Convergent Synthesis of 2-Alkoxy-3-alkyl(aryl)thiobuta-1, 3-dienes, Su, M.; Kang, Y.; Yu, W.; Hua, Z.;
Jin, Z. Org. Lett. 2002, 4, 691-694
Process for Preparing Adrenaline beta-Agonists by Combinatorial Resolution Method CN19991017313
Deng, J.; Peng, X.; Hua, Z.; Wu, T.; Yang, L.; Chinese Patent