Research Interests:

  • Organic transformations
  • Microwave assisted synthesis
  • Mechanistic investigations
  • Bioorganometallics
  • Green chemistry

    Courses Taught:

  • Organic Chemistry
  • Organic Laboratory
  • Catalysis: Organic Transformations
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Advanced Inorganic Chemistry
  • Polymer Chemistry
  • General Chemistry
  • Research in Science
 picture of students and Dr. Stockland

Selected Recent Results (undergraduate authors underlined)

Microwave Assisted Regioselective Addition of P(O)-H Bonds to Alkenes Without Added Solvent or Catalyst. R. I. Taylor, L.E. Thompson, P.B. Patel, and R.A. Stockland Jr. Org. Lett. 2005, 7, 851.

Organosoluble Copper Clusters as Precatalysts for Carbon-Heteroelement Bond Forming Reactions: Microwave and Conventional Heating. G. F. Manbeck, A. J. Lipman, R. A. Stockland Jr., A. L. Freidl, A. F. Hasler, J. J. Stone, and I. A. Guzei J. Org. Chem. 2005, 70, 244.

Remarkable Tolerance of Ethynyl Steroids to Air and Water in Hydrophosphinylation Reactions: Reaction Scope and Limitations. R. A. Stockland Jr. A. J. Lipman, J. A. Bawiec, P. E. Morrison, I. A. Guzei, P. M. Findeis, J. F. Tamblin. J. Organomet. Chem. 2006, 691, 4042.

Organometallic Complexes Containing 17-Ethynyl-17 b -hydroxyandrost-4-en-3-one and Related Ethynyl Steroids. R. A. Stockland Jr., M. C. Kohler, I. A. Guzei, Margaret E. Kastner, and J. A. Bawiec, III, R. B. Hochberg, D. C. Labaree Organometallics, 2006, 25, 2475.

Modern NMR Spectroscopy in Education, ACS symposium Series Volume 969, Eds. David S. Rovnyak and R. A. Stockland Jr., 2007.

Funding:

My students and I thank the National Science Foundation, the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, the Petroleum Research Fund, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Merck Research, and Pfizer for financial support of our work.