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Don LaMunyon's Biography

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Full Name:

Don LaMunyon

Gender:

Male

Family:

Wife: Doralynne; 4 children:

Birth Date:

1960

Birth Place:

CO

Home City:

St. Helens, OR

Religion:

L.D.S.

PhD, North Carolina State University, 1995, Grade Point Average of 4.0

MS, Chemistry, Utah State University, 1989, Grade Point Average of 3.7

BS, Chemistry, Fort Lewis College, 1986, Grade Point Average of 3.0

Candidate, United States House of Representatives, District 1, 2010

Research Chemist, Lacamas Laboratories, 1998-2010

Post Doctoral Research Associate, University of Oregon, 1995-1998

Instructor, University of Oregon, 1997

Teaching and Research, North Carolina State University, 1989-1994

Teaching and Research, Utah State University, 1986-1988

School Bus Driver, Durango School District 9R, 1982-1986

Member, American Chemical Society, 1987-2010

Publications:

?Synthesis of Well-Defined Tower-Shaped 1,3,5-Trisubstituted Adamantanes Incorporating a Macrocyclic Trilactam Ring System?
Li, Quan; Jin, Changshu; Petukhov, Pavel A.; Rukavishnikov, Aleksey V.; Zaikova, Tatiana O.; Phadke, Avinash; LaMunyon, Donald H.; Lee, Melissa D.; Keana, John F. W.; From Journal of Organic Chemistry (2004), 69(4), 1010-1019.

?A Tower-Shaped Prototypic Molecule Designed as an Atomically Sharp Tip for AFM Applications?
Rukavishnikov, Aleksey V.; Phadke, Avinash; Lee, Melissa D.; LaMunyon, Donald H.; Petukhov, Pavel A.; Keana, John F. W.
From Tetrahedron Letters (1999), 40(35), 6353-6356.

?Synthesis of Eiffel Tower-Shaped Molecules Designed as Atomically Sharp Tips for AFM applications?
Keana, J. F. W.; Petukhov, P. A.; Rukavishnikov, A. V.; Phadke, A.; LaMunyon, D. H.; Lee, M. D.
From Book of Abstracts, 217th ACS National Meeting, Anaheim, Calif., March 21-25 (1999),

?Enantiopure N-Acyldihydropyridones as Synthetic Intermediates: Asymmetric Syntheses of Indolizidine Alkaloids (-)-205A, (-)-207A, and (-)-235B?
Comins, Daniel L.; LaMunyon, Donald H.; Chen, Xinghai
From Journal of Organic Chemistry (1997), 62(23), 8182-8187.

?Piperidine Derivatives as Subtype-selective NMDA Receptor Ligands?
Bigge, Christopher F.; Cai, Sui Xiong; Keana, John F. W.; Lan, Nancy C.; Guzikowski, Anthony P.; Zhou, Zhang-lin; Araldi, Gian Luca; Lamunyon, Donald; Weber, Eckard; et al.
From PCT Int. Appl. (1997), WO 9723458 A1 19970703.

?Asymmetric Synthesis and Synthetic Utility of 2,3-Dihydro-4-pyridones?
Comins, Daniel L.; Joseph, Sajan P.; Hong, Hao; Al-awar, Rima S.; Foti, Christopher J.; Zhang, Yue-mei; Chen, Xinghai; LaMunyon, Donald H.; Guerra-Weltzien, Maria
From Pure and Applied Chemistry (1997), 69(3), 477-481.

?Natural Product Synthesis Via Enantiopure 2,3-Dihydro-4-pyridones: Asymmetric Synthesis of Indolizidine and Quinolizidine Alkaloids?
LaMunyon, Donald H.
Dissertation, North Carolina State University (1995)

?Grignard Addition to 1-Acyl Salts Of Chiral 4-Alkoxypyridines. A New Enantioselective Preparation of 2-Alkyl-2,3-dihydro-4-pyridones?
Comins, Daniel L.; LaMunyon, Donald H.
From Tetrahedron Letters (1994), 35(40), 7343-6.

?Enantiopure 2,3-Dihydro-4-pyridones as Synthetic Intermediates. Asymmetric Syntheses of the Quinolizidine Alkaloids, (+)-Myrtine, (-)-Lasubine I, and (+)-Subcosine I
Comins, Daniel L.; LaMunyon, Donald H.
From Journal of Organic Chemistry (1992), 57(22), 5807-9.

?The Synthetic Utility of Methoxypyridines?
LaMunyon, Donald H.
Thesis, Utah State University (1989)

?Preparation of 1-(tert-Butoxycarbonyl)-2,6-dialkyl-2,3-dihydro-4-pyridones. A Stereocontrolled Synthesis of (?)-Myrtine?
Comins, Daniel L.; LaMunyon, Donald H.
From Tetrahedron Letters (1989), 30(38), 5053-6.

?Ortho lithiation of 2-, 3-, and 4-methoxypyridines?
Comins, Daniel L.; LaMunyon, Donald H.
From Tetrahedron Letters (1988), 29(7), 773-6.

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