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Mike Haley, Mentor
Chemistry

Margarita Wickham, McNair Scholar

Mike Haley, Professor of Chemistry, received his Ph.D. from Rice University in 1991 before joining the UO faculty in 1993. His research focuses on the exploration of non-natural molecules and utilizes current synthetic methodology for the preparation of novel organic materials and compounds of theoretical interest. Primarily those interests are focused in the areas of acetylene chemistry and metalla-aromatic chemistry. An Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow in 2000-2001, Professor Haley was a recipient of the Thomas F. Herman Faculty Achievement Award for Distinguished Teaching in 2002. Recent publications include "Let the Best Ring Win: Selective Macrocycle Formation via Pd-catalyzed or Cu-mediated Alkyne Homocoupling" (with J. A. Marsden, J. J. Miller), Angewandte Chemie, Int. Ed. (2004); "Synthesis and Characterization of Multiply Fused Dehydrobenzoannulenoannulene Topologies,"(with J. A. Marsden, M. J. O'Connor) Organic Letters (2004); and "Synthetic Strategies for Dehydrobenzo[n]annulenes" (with J. A. Marsden and G. J. Palmer), European Journal of Organic Chemistry (2003).