Dr. René P.F. Kanters

Director of Computer Assisted Science Education

C-202 Gottwald Center for the Sciences
Office: (804) 287-6873
Fax: (804) 287-1897

http://facultystaff.richmond.edu/~rkanters/

Speciality:
Physical and Inorganic Chemistry

Teaching:
Pollutants in the Environment (CHEM 110L)
Chemistry Detectives: Solving Real World Problems (CHEM 111L)
Physical Chemistry (CHEM309/310L)
Inorganic Chemistry (CHEM 317L)

Research:
Development and implementation of interactive computer based educational materials for biology, chemistry and physics. Part of this is reflected in the C-MoR project.

Education:
Ph.D. -University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Selected Publications:

Clough, S., Gupton, J., Ligali, A., Roberts, M., Driscoll, D., Annett, S., Hewitt, A., Hudson, M., Jackson, E., Miller, R., Norwood, B., Kanters, R., Wyre, H., & Petruzzi, H. (2005) Reactions of (Z)-3-aryl-3-chloropropenals with nucleophiles: stereoselective formation of (E)-vinylogous esters, (E)-vinylogous amides, and vinamidinium salts. Tetrahedron, 61, 7554-7561.

Gupton, J., Miller, R.B., Krumpe, K.E., Clough, S.C., Banner, E.J., Kanters, R., Du, K.X., Keertikar, K.M., Lauerman, N.E., Solano, J.M., Adams, B.R., Callahan, D.W., Little, B., Scharf, A., & Sikorski, J.A. (2005) The Application of Vinylogous Iminium Salt Derivatives to an Efficient Relay Synthesis of the Pyrrole Containing Alkaloids Polycitone A and B. Tetrahedron, 61, 1845-1854.

Clough, S., Kanters, R., & Goldman, E. (2004) Chem 111: A general education course in organic structure determination. Journal of Chemical Educaction, 81 (6), 834-836.

Clough, S.C., Gupton, J.T.,  Driscoll, D.R., Griffin, K.A., Hewitt, A.M., Hudson, M.S., Ligali, S.A., Mulcahy, S.P., Roberts, M.N., Miller, R.B., Belachew, T.T., Kamenova, I.D., Kanters, R., & Norwood, B.K. (2004) Extension of b-chloroenals to ethyl 5-chloro-2,4-pentadienoates using Wadsworth-Emmons reactions:  Subsequent conversions to 5-aryl-5-chloro-2,4-pentadienoic acids and 5-aryl-2-penten-4-ynoic acids. Tetrahedron, 60, 10165-10169.

Gupton, J.T., Clough, S.C., Miller, R.B., Lukens, J.R., Henry, C.A., Kanters, R., & Sikorski, J.A. (2003) The Application of Vinylogous Iminum Salt Derivatives to the Synthesis of Ningalin B Hexamethyl Ether. Tetrahedron, 59, 207-215.