Matthew Aaron Looney

Curriculum Vitae

Dissertation

• Title: to be determined.

• Committee: Benaissa Chidmi (Advisor)

• Summary: to be determined.

• Job Market Paper: to be determine

Education

• Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

  • Ph.D. Agricultural and Applied Economics, (expected 2020)

    • Primary Fields: Industrial Organization, Computational Economics

    • Secondary Fields: Environmental, Natural Resource, and Energy Economics

  • M.S. Statistics, (expected 2019)

  • M.S. Agricultural and Applied Economics, (expected 2018)

• The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania

  • B.S. Economics, 2014

Current Publications

• forthcoming

Working Papers

• forthcoming

Publications (from a former life)

• Articles

  • λ 3-Iodane-mediated arenol dearomatization. Synthesis of five-membered ring-containing analogues of the aquayamycin ABC tricyclic unit and novel access to the apoptosis inducer menadione. N. Lebrasseur, G.J. Fan, M. Oxoby, M.A. Looney, S. Quideau; Tetrahedron 2005, 61 (6), 1551-1562. (pdf)

  • 2-Alkoxyarenol-derived orthoquinols in carbon–oxygen, carbon–nitrogen and carbon–carbon bond-forming reactions. S. Quideau, L. Pouységu, M. Oxoby, M.A. Looney; Tetrahedron 2001, 57 (2), 319-329. (pdf)

  • Hypervalent iodine (III)-mediated oxidative acetoxylation of 2-methoxyphenols for regiocontrolled nitrogen benzannulation. S. Quideau, L. Pouységu, A.V. Avellan, D.K. Whelligan, M.A. Looney; Tetrahedron Letters 2001, 42 (42), 7393-7396. (pdf)

  • Oxidized arenol intermediates in intermolecular carbon-carbon bond formation. naphthoid cyclohexa-2, 4-dienones via oxidative nucleophilic substitution. S. Quideau, M.A. Looney, L. Pouységu; Organic Letters 1999, 1 (10), 1651-1654. (pdf)

  • Orthoquinone monoketal chemistry. Experimental and density functional theory studies on orthoquinol acetate rearrangements. S. Quideau, M.A. Looney, L. Pouységu, S. Ham, D.M. Birney; Tetrahedron letters 1999, 40 (4), 615-618. (pdf)

  • Novel preparation of orthoquinol acetates and their application in oxygen heterocyclization reactions. S. Quideau, L. Pouységu, M.A. Looney; The Journal of Organic Chemistry 1998, 63 (25), 9597-9600. (pdf)

• Posters

  • Quideau, S.; Pouységu, L.; Looney, M. A.; Hendley, R. T. “Orthoquinone Monoketals in Heterocyclization Reactions”. In 216th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, USA 1998; Orgn-564.

  • Quideau, S.; Oxoby, M.; Pouységu, L.; Looney, M. A. “Preparation and Utilization of 2- Alkoxyarenols in Oxidative Nucleophilic Carbon-Carbon Bond-Forming Substitutions”. In 221st ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, USA 2001.

• Conferences

  • Quideau, S.; Pouységu, L.; Oxoby, M.; Looney, M. A. “Phenyliodine(III)-mediated Oxidative Activation of 2-Alkoxyarenols for Carbon-Oxygen, Carbon-Nitrogen and Carbon-Carbon Bond Formations”. In 221st ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, USA 2001.

  • Lamidey, A. M.; Fernon, L.; Pouységu, L.; Looney, M. A.; Quideau, S. “A Convenient Synthesis of the Echinacea-derived Immunomodulator (2R,3R)-(-)-Chicoric Acid”. International Conference on Polyphenols, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany 2000.
    
    
    

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