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Bruce Branchaud, Mentor
Chemistry

Damion Meany, McNair Scholar

Bruce Branchaud, professor of organic and bio-organic chemistry, received his PhD from Harvard in 1981 and did post-doctoral work at MIT before joining the UO faculty in 1983. Branchaud is an associate member of both the Materials Science Institute and the Institute of Molecular Biology. Research in the Branchaud lab reflects those interconnected interests and focuses on creating non-biological molecular motors; oxidatively-activated, self-regulated antioxidants; and using synthetic non-biological oxidases as catalysts in organic chemistry. Publications include “An Approach to (+)-Pancratistatin from D-Glucose: A Conformational Lock Solves a Stereochemical Problem,” Tetrahedron Letters (1999) and “b-Haloethanol Substrates as Probes for Radical Mechanisms for Galactose Oxidase,” Journal of the American Chemical Society (1997).