Organic Chemist

Pulin Wang

**** *. ******* *****, ******, IL ****1

Telephone: 617-***-**** Fax: 617-***-****

Email: *******@********.***

Education

June 2006 – present Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign;

PhD Candidate

May 2006 Emmanuel College, Boston; B.S. in Chemistry

September 1999 – June 2001 College of Life Science, Sichuan University, China; Undergraduate

Research Experience and Employment

June 2006 – present Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois. Graduate Researcher in Prof.

Martin Burke’s group

• Synthesized the polyol fragment of amphotericin B

• Developed a novel sp3-sp2 Suzuki coupling derived from the total synthesis

September 2005 – June 2006 Department of Chemistry, Emmanuel College. Teaching Assistant for

Biochemistry and Organic Chemistry

July 2004 – May 2006 Department of Chemistry, Emmanuel College. Student Researcher in Prof.

Christine Jaworek-Lopes’ group

• Designed the route and synthesized polyarene small molecules

• Development of new undergraduate labs

September 2002 – January 2005 Department of Chemistry, Harvard University. Research Assistant in Mass

Spectrometry Facility

• Sample handling and routine maintenance of Micromass LCT and P-II.

July 2002 – September 2002 Harvard Medical School, Student Researcher in Summer Student Research

Program in Prof. James Adelstein and Amin Kassis’s group

• Synthesis of quinazolinone derived prodrug

• I125 radio-labeling for anti-cancer drug and imaging agent

June 2001 – July 2002 Harvard Medical School, volunteer in Drs. James Adelstein and Amine Kassis’s

group, new anti-cancer radiopharmaceuticals research

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Publications

Peer Reviewed Journals:

Pulin Wang, Martin D. Burke, Synthesis and coupling of the amphotericin B polyol building block. In preparation

Pulin Wang, Martin D. Burke, Stereospecific Suziki-Miyaura cross couplings of unactivated secondary boronic acids.

In preparation

Iacobucci, S., Jaworek-Lopes, C. H., Wang, P., Phun, L. A green, clean colligative properties experiment. Chemical

Educator, 2006, 2, 102-104.

Posters:

Pulin Wang, Martin D. Burke, Synthesis and installation of amphotericin B polyol subunit, Gordon Research

Conference – Natural Products, Bryant University, Smithfield, July, 2011

Pulin Wang, Martin D. Burke, Diastereoselective hydroboration and sp3-sp2 Suzuki coupling: Applications towards

the total synthesis of amphotericin B, 23rd Annual Allerton Conference, Allerton Park, IL, November 21, 2009

Pulin Wang, Lien Phun, Christine Jaworek – Lopes, A green, clean colligative properties experiment, Sigma Xi

Poster Presentation 2005, Mass. College of Pharmacy

Ketai Wang, Pulin Wang, Kai Chen, S. James Adelstein, Amin I. Kassis, An insoluble radioiodinated quinazolinone

derivative for enzyme - mediated anticancer therapy, 50th Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, New

Orleans, LA, June 21-25, 2003. J. Nucl. Med., 2003, 44(5) Suppl: 306P

Lab Skills

Route design and multi-step synthesis, radio- labeling and handling of radioactive material, NMR, Mass Spec

Computer Skills

ChemOffice, Data analysis, MS Office, SciFinder Scholar, Micromass Masslynx/Openlynx, Spartan

Teaching Experience

Organic chemistry, organic chemistry labs

Honors and Awards

Vandeveer Vorrhees Award for Best Original Proposal of Department of Chemistry, UIUC in 2011

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Excellent Teaching Award of Emmanuel College in 2006

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Dean’s List of Academic Excellence of Emmanuel College in 2003, 2004, 2005

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The National Dean’s List of 2005-2006

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Sister Janet Eisner Merit Scholarship Recipient in 2005

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Membership

2002, ACS

2005, Sigma Xi since

2012, Mensa International

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