Positions

Professor, Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences

Contact Info

sargenta@ecu.edu

Publications in VIVO

Co-author Network

Co-investigator Network

Andrew Sargent

member of

American Chemical Society 1994
Phi Beta Kappa 1985

selected publications

article
- Alternate Geometries in the Cobalt-Catalyzed Hydroacylation of Dienes Facilitate a High Spin Mechanism: A Density Functional Theory Study. Organometallics. 43:2202-2212. 2024
- Association between N-Terminal Pyrenes Stabilizes the Collagen Triple Helix. Journal of Organic Chemistry. 88:11885-11894. 2023
- Computational Study of Phenyliodine Diacetate Intermediates during Lewis Acid Activation with TMSOTf. Arkivoc - Free Internet Journal for Organic Chemistry. 2021
- Synthesis of Redox-Active Fluorinated 5-Hydroxytryptophans as Molecular Reporters for Biological Electron Transfer. Chemical Communications. 2021
- para-Selective Benzylation of Aryl Iodides by the in situ Preparation of ArIF2: a Hypervalent Iodine-Guided Electrophilic Substitution. European Journal of Organic Chemistry. 2302-2305. 2020
- DFT Mechanistic Investigation of an Enantioselective Tsuji-Trost Allylation Reaction. Organometallics. 37:3791-3802. 2018
- Computational and Quantum Mechanical Analysis of Catalytic Organometallic Reactions. 2016 Research and Creative Activities Week. 2016
- Palladium Catalyzed C-C Coupling Reaction from a Computational Quantum Mechanical Perspective. Southern Regional Honors College Council Conference. 2016

presentations

presentation

principal investigator on

Mechanistic Studies of Decarboxylative Allylation Reactions awarded by ECU HCAS 2014
Acquisition of a High-Performance Computing Cluster Environment in Support of Scientific and Engineering Applications awarded by National Science Foundation 2006 - 2009
Theoretical Studies of New Macrocyclic Molecules awarded by Microelectronics Center of North Carolina 2000 - 2001
Theoretical Investigation of Homogeneous Models of Hydrodenitrogenation Chemistry awarded by American Chemical Society 1998 - 2000
Alkali Metal Binding Studies in a New Class of Redox-Active Macrocyclic Receptors awarded by N.C. Super Computing Center 1999 - 2000
Theoretical Investigation of Mechanisms in Inorganic Chemistry awarded by N.C. Super Computing Center 1997 - 1998
Theoretical Investigation of Catalytic Hydrodesulfurization (HDS) Chemistry awarded by N.C. Super Computing Center 1996 - 1997

co-principal investigator on

Acquisition of High Performance Computing Resources in Support of the Consortium for Computational Chemistry and Materials Sciences awarded by National Science Foundation 2004 - 2007

investigator on

professional service activities

ACS-PRF Proposal Review ACS-PRF Proposal Review 2017

awards and honors

Board of Governor's Distinguished Professor for Teaching, conferred by East Carolina University, 2019
Michael F. Bassman Honors Thesis Award, conferred by East Carolina University Honors College, 2018

preferred title

Professor of Inorganic Chemistry

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