Thomas W. Nalli, Ph. D.

EMPLOYMENT

8/01-present Professor of Chemistry Winona State University
8/98-8/01 Associate Professor of Chemistry Winona State University
8/95-8/98 Assistant Professor of Chemistry Winona State University
9/88-8/95 Assistant Professor of Chemistry Purchase College, State University of New York

EDUCATION

5/87-9/88 Postdoctoral Fellow University of Utah Mentor - Dr. Wesley G. Bentrude
5/86-5/87 Postdoctoral Fellow Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratory Supervisor - Dr. James A. Franz
10/86 Ph.D. Organic Chemistry University of Rochester Advisor - Dr. Jack A. Kampmeier
6/82 M.S. Organic Chemistry University of Rochester Advisor - Dr. Jack A. Kampmeier
6/80 B.S. Chemistry Union College Cum Laude

n Hein, S. M; Kopitzke, R. W.; Nalli, T. W.; Esselman, B. J.;Hill, N. J. “Use of 1H, 13C, and 19F-NMR Spectroscopy and Computational Modeling To Explore Chemoselectivity in the Formation of a Grignard Reagent” J. Chem. Ed. 2015 92, 548-552.

  Nalli, T. W.; Stanek, L. G.; Molenaar, R. H.; Weidell, K. L.; Meyer, J. P.; Johnson, B. R.;  Steckler, T. T.; Wackerly,  J. Wm.; Studler, M. J.; Vickerman, K. L.; Klankowski, S. A  "Trialkyl Phosphites and Diaryliodonium Salts as Co-initiators in a System for Radical-Promoted Visible-Light-Induced Cationic Polymerization" J. Org. Chem., 2013, 78, 3561–3569. 

  Ragsdale, F. R.; Gronli, T. D.; Batool, N.; Haight, N.; Mehaffey, A.; McMahon, E. C.; Nalli, T. W.; Mannello, C. M.; Sell, C. J.; McCann, P. J.; Kastello, G. M; Hooks, T.; Wilson, T. "Effect of Red Bull energy drink on cardiovascular and renal function", Amino Acids, 2010, 38, 1193-1200.

Muneer, R.; Nalli, T. W. "Use of Diaryliodonium/Phosphine Radical-Chain Chemistry for Visible Photoinitiation of Cationic Polymerizations. Trimethyl Phosphite as a Co-initiator of the Ring-Opening Polymerization of Cyclohexene Oxide", Macromolecules, 1998, 31, 7976-7979.

Geahigan, K. B.; Taintor, R. J.; George, B. M.; Meagher, D. A.; Nalli, T. W. "Electron Transfer from Cyclic Diaryliodine Species to Arenediazonium Salts. Evidence for the Intermediacy of 9-I-2 Structures in Iodine Atom Transfer Reactions", J. Org. Chem., 1998, 63, 6141-6145.

Kampmeier, J. A.; Nalli, T. W. "Initiation of Cationic Polymerization of Cyclic Ethers by Redox Radical-Chain Reactions of Onium Salts", J. Org. Chem., 1994, 59, 1381-1388.

Kampmeier, J. A.; Nalli, T. W. "Phosphoranyl Radicals as Reducing Agents; SRN1 Chains with Onium Salts and Neutral Nucleophiles", J. Org. Chem., 1993, 58, 943-949.

GRANTS

2002 National Science Foundation - CCLI - Adaptation and Implementation Grant for "Adaptation and Implementation of Modern NMR Techniques throughout the Undergraduate Chemistry Curriculum"

2011 CEM Microwave-Enhanced Chemistry Grant for "Implementation of Microwave Assisted Reactions in Organic Chemistry Labs Including a Green Alkyne Hydration Experiment"

LEADERSHIP

1/00-12/00              Chair             La Crosse/Winona Local Section of The American Chemical Society