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Associate Professor of Chemistry
M.Sc., University of Mainz; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology; Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University

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Research Interests:

Organic chemistry, polymer chemistry, and materials science

Fellowships/Honors:

Sigma Xi Young Faculty Award - 2006, CETL/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award - 2006, Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship - 2005; Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award - 2005; Blanchard Fellow - 2004; DuPont Young Faculty Award - 2004; NSF CAREER award - 2003; 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award 2002 and 2003; Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award 2002

Selected Works:

"Multifunctionalization of Dendrimers via Orthogonal Transformations" Poorva Goyal, Kunsang Yoon and Marcus Weck* Chem. Eur. J. 2007 in press.

"Template Enhanced Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization" Clinton R. South and Marcus Weck* Macromolecules 2007, 40, 1386-1394.

"Unsymmetrical Macrocyclic Oligomeric Co-Salen Complexes Generated via Ring-Expanding Olefin Metathesis: Highly Reactive and Enantioselective Catalysts for the Hydrolytic Kinetic Resolution of Terminal Epoxides" Xiaolai Zheng, Christopher W. Jones,* and Marcus Weck* J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 1105-1112.
       
"Modular and Dynamic Functionalization of Polymeric Scaffolds" Clinton R. South, Caroline Burd, and Marcus Weck* Acc. Chem. Res. 2007, 40, 63-74.

"Polymer-Based Tris-2-phenylpyridine Iridium Complexes" Xian-Yong Wang, Rupesh Narayan Prabhu, Russell H. Schmehl, and Marcus Weck* Macromolecules 2006, 39, 3140-3146.

"Poly(styrene)-Supported Co(Salen) Complexes as Efficient Recyclable Catalysts for the Hydrolytic Kinetic Resolution of Epichlorohydrin" Xiaolai Zheng, Christopher W. Jones,* and Marcus Weck* Chem. Eur. J. 2006, 12, 576-583.

"Functional Lactides: Methodology and Polymerization" Warren W. Gerhardt, David E. Noga, Kenneth I. Hardcastle, Andrés J. García, David M. Collard, and Marcus Weck* Biomacromolecules 2006, 7, 1735-1742.

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