William N. Setzer

Professor, Organic Chemistry
Adjunct Professor, Biological Sciences

phone: (256) 824-6519         fax: (256) 824-6349         e-mail: wsetzer@matsci.uah.edu

Résumé

BS: Harvey Mudd College
PhD: University of Arizona (1981)
Postdoctoral: University of Utah
Alexander von Humboldt Fellow: Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Appointed to UAH faculty in 1985

Research Interests: Bio-Organic and Natural Products Chemistry

My current research interests are concerned with secondary metabolites of higher plants; biomedicinal aspects of biologically active phytochemicals and chemical ecology.

 

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Selected Publications

"Solid State Conformations of Nucleoside Cyclic 3',5'-Monophosphate Derivatives. Effects of Substituents on Phosphorus on Ring Geometries and n/s* Orbital Interactions", Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1991, 56, 7212-7218.

"A Chemical Ecological Study of the Components of the Eastern Red Cedar (Juniperus virginiana L.) from Three Habitats in Huntsville, Alabama", Castanea, 1992, 57, 209-213.

"Antimicrobial and Cytotoxic Activity of Crude Extracts of Araliaceae from Monteverde, Costa Rica", Brenesia, 1992, 38,123-130.

"The Essential Oil of Guettarda poasana Inhibits Yeast Growth", Biotropica, 1993, 25, 483-486.

"An Antibacterial Vitamin E Derivative from Tovomitopsis psychotriifolia", Planta Medica,1995, 61, 275-276.

"A Cytotoxic Diacetylene from Dendropanax arboreus", Planta Medica, 1995, 61, 470-471.

"Host Associations of Two Adventitious-Root-Climbing Vines in a North Queensland Tropical Rainforest", Biotropica, 1996, 28, 356-366.

"Host Preferences of Rhus radicans (Anacardiaceae) in a Southern Deciduous Hardwood Forest", Ecology, 1996, 77, 1271-1276.

"Lupeol is the Cytotoxic Principle in the Leaf Extract of Dendropanax cf. querceti from Monteverde, Costa Rica", Planta Medica, 1998, 64, 370-372.

"NMR Assignments and Conformations of Taraxerenes", Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry, 1998, 36, 539-541.

"Pesticidal Activity and Phytochemical Screening of North Queensland Tropical Rainforest Plant Extracts", Queensland Naturalist, 1998, 36, 11-20.

"The Cytotoxic Activity of a Salacia Liana Species from Monteverde, Costa Rica, is Due to a High Concentration of Tingenone", Planta Medica, 1998, 64, 583.

"Cyclic Hemiacetals with Seven-Membered Rings from an Undescribed Salacia Species from Monteverde, Costa Rica", Journal of Natural Products, 1999, 62, 340-341.

 

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