Kevin L. Jantzi, Ph.D.

Kevin L. Jantzi (he/him) Department Chair, Associate Professor of Chemistry kevin.jantzi@valpo.edu 219.464.5201 Center for the Sciences 210

Organic chemistry

Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry – University of Wisconsin-Madison (2004)
B.A. – Goshen College (1998)

Use of palladium catalysts to generate small, highly functionalized rings, development of new organic chemistry laboratory experiments, indoor and outdoor air quality

K. L. Jantzi, I. A. Guzei, H. J. Reich, “Solution and Solid-State Structures of Lithiated Phenyloxazolines,”Organometallics 2006, 25, 75390-5395.
K. L. Jantzi, C. L. Puckett, I. A. Guzei, H. J. Reich, “Solution Structure and Chelation Properties of 2-Thienyllithium Reagents,” Journal of Organic Chemistry 2005, 70, 7520-7529.
H. J. Reich, W. S. Goldenberg, A. W. Sanders, K. L Jantzi, C. C. Tzschucke, “Amine- and Ether-Chelated Aryllithium Reagents – Structure and Dynamics,” Journal of the American Chemical Society 2003, 125, 3509-3521.
C. R. Cornman, K. L. Jantzi, J. I. Wirgau, T. C. Stauffer, J. W. Kampf, P. D. Boyle, “Coordination Chemistry of a Tripodal S2ON Ligand: Syntheses, Structures, and Reactivity of the Molybdenum(VI) and Nickel(II) Complexes of Bis-(2-mercaptoethyl)-2-amino-4-methylphenol (H3btap) and Comparison to VVO(btap),” Inorganic Chemistry 1998, 37, 5851-5855.

2007-2011 American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund Washington, DC
$40,000 – “Pd(0)-Catalyzed [3+2] Cycloadditions Involving Novel Epoxide and Aziridine Containing Trimethylenemethane Precursors.” Project to expand existing Pd(0)-catalyzed methodologies used to synthesize substituted five-membered rings.
2007 American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund Washington, DC
$3,600 – “8th International Symposium on Carbanion Chemistry (ISCC8).” Funding to cover the travel costs of several international speakers.