Charles Bessey Professor
Chemistry
809B/810 Hamilton HallLincoln, NE 68588
(402) 472-6951
pdussault1@unl.edu
Education
- Postdoctoral Research, Duke University
- Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
- B.Sc. University of California at Irvine
Research Interests
- Organic synthesis
- Peroxide
- Hydroperoxide
- Ozone
- Oxidations
- Amphiphile
- Nanohybrid functional materials
- Bioanalytical chemistry
- Medicinal chemistry
- Chemical biology
Inventions/Patents
- Self-Assembled Monolayers and Methods for Using the Same in Biosensing Applications. U. S. Pt. Appl. Pub. (July 14, 2015, 9,079,835), Dussault, P. H.; Lai, R.; Fisher, T.; Zaitouna, A. submitted June 7, 2012.
- Dussault, P. H.; Ghorai, Prasanta. Methods and compositions for generating singlet oxygen. U.S. Pat. Appl. Publ. (May 22, 2012, 8,182,785).
Selected Publications
- (in press) “3-Phenylpropyl (tetrahydropyran-2-yl) peroxide,” Kyasa, S. K.*; Dussault, P. H. in EROS (Encyclopedia of Reagents in Organic Synthesis) 2020, J. Bode, ed. Wiley.
- "A modular approach to introduction of peroxides onto molecules and nanostructures". Horn, A.; Dussault, P. H. RSC Advances, 2020, 10, 44408. https://doi.org/10.1039/D0RA09088C (Open Access).
- “Chemistry of Peresters.” Locklear, M. E.; Dussault, P. H. Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2020, 4814-4840; https://doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.202000386
- “Synthesis of a-cyano and a -sulfonyl cyclic ethers via intramolecular reactions of peroxides with sulfone- and nitrile-stabilized carbanions” Horn, A.; Dussault, P. H. J. Org. Chem. 2019, 84, 14611; DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.9b02112.
- “Novel Amphiphilic Cyclobutene and Cyclobutane cis-C18 Fatty Acid Derivatives Inhibit Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis Growth” Zinniel, D. K.; Sittiwong, W.; Marshall, D. D.; Rathnaiah, G.; Sakallioglu, I.-T.; Powers, R.; Dussault, P. H.; Barletta, R. G. (Vet. Sci. 2019, 6, E46; DOI: 10.3390/vetsci6020046.
- "Reductive cleavage of organic peroxides by iron and thiols" Olson, A. S.; Jameson, A. J.; Kyasa, S. K.; Evans, B. W., Dussault, P. H. ACS Omega, 2018, 3, 14054-63. DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.8b01977 (Open Access).
- "A Genetically Encoded Cyclobutene Probe for Labeling of Live Cells" K. Liu, B. Enns, B.Evans, N. Wang, X. Shang, W. Sittiwong, P. H. Dussault* and J. Guo* Chem. Comm. 2017, 53, 10604; DOI: 10.1039/C7CC05580C.
- "Alkene Ozonolysis" Fisher, T.; Dussault, P. H. Tetrahedron, 2017, 73, 4233-58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tet.2017.03.039.