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• Professor 2018-present
• Associate Professor, ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV University, Ada, OH, 2012-2018
• Assistant Professor, ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV University, Ada, OH, 2006-2012
• Research/Teaching Assistant, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 2001-2006

Education

• B.S., Chemistry, Montana State University-Billings, Billings, MT, 2001
• Ph.D., North Dakota State University, 2006

Teaching Interests

• Organic Chemistry
• Organic Synthesis
• Medicinal Chemistry

Research Interests

• New catalyst/ligand design for asymmetric organic processes
• Stereoselective tin-free radical reactions

Selected Publications

• Wijesooriya, C. S.; Smith, E. A.; Nieszala, M.*; Stafford, A.*; Zimmerman, J. R. Coumarin-based Fluorescent Probes for Selectively Targeting and Imaging the Endoplasmic Reticulum in Mammalian Cells. Photochem. and photobio. 2018, ASAP.
• Zimmerman, J. R.; Criss, C.*; Evans, S.*; Ernst, M.*; Nieszala, M.*; Stafford, A.*; Szczerba, J.* Fluorescent sensor for fluoride anion based on a sulfonamido-chromone scaffold. Tet. Lett. 2018, 59, 2473-2476.
• Zimmerman, J. R. Fluorescent compounds as sensing agents. U.S. Patent 20,170,241,969, 2017.
• Zimmerman, J. R.; Johntony, O.;* Steigerwald, D.;* Criss, C.;* Myers, B. J.; Kinder, D. H. The Synthesis of a New Class of Highly Fluorescent Chromones via an Inverse-Demand Hetero-Diels–Alder Reaction. Org. Lett. 2015, 17, 3256–3259.
• Zimmerman, J. R.; Myers, B. J.; Bouhall, S.;* McCarthy, A.;* Johntony, O.;* Manpadi, M. A two-step, single pot procedure for the synthesis of substituted dihydropyrazolopyrimidines. Tetrahedron Lett. 2014, 55, 936–940.
• McCarthy, A.;* Spatney, R.;* Manpadi, M.; Myers, B. J. Zimmerman, J. R. A direct conversion of carboxylic acids to methylthiomethyl esters using a microwave-assisted pummerer rearrangement with dimethylsulfoxide.ÌýTetrahedron Lett.Ìý2012,Ìý53,Ìý4782–4784.
• Zimmerman, J. R.; Manpadi, M.; Spatney, R. Tin-free Radical Reactions Under Minimal Solvent Conditions for the Synthesis of Substituted Chromones and CoumarinsGreen Chem.Ìý2011,Ìý13, 3103-3106.
• Zimmerman, J. R.; Manpadi, M.; Spatney, R.; Baker, A. Diastereoselective Tin-Free Tandem Radical Additions to 3-Formylchromones.ÌýJ. Org. Chem.Ìý2011,Ìý76, 8076–8081.
• "Handbook of Cyclization Reactions; CH. 23: Radical Cyclizations." Sibi, M. P.; Zimmerman, J.; Holloway, A. Wiley-VCH,Ìý2009.
• Sibi, M. P.; Zimmerman, J. Pyrones to Pyrans: Enantioselective Radical Additions to Acyloxy Pyrones.ÌýJ. Am. Chem. Soc.Ìý2006,Ìý128, 13346-13347.
• Lee, S.; Lim, C. J.; Kim, S.; Subramanyam, R.; Zimmerman, J.; Sibi, M. P. Enantioselective Conjugate Radical Addition to a'-Hydroxy Enones.ÌýOrg. Lett.Ìý2006,Ìý8, 4311-4313.
• Sibi, M. P.; Petrovic, G.; Zimmerman, J. Enantioselective Addition/Trapping Reactions with a,b-Disubstituted Enoates. Synthesis ofÌýanti-Propionate Aldols.ÌýJ. Am. Chem. Soc.Ìý2005,Ìý127, 2390-2391.
• Sibi, M. P.; Hultin, P. G.; Hein, J. E.; Zimmerman, J. Stereoselective Radical Conjugate Additions: Application of a Fluorous Oxazolidinone Chiral Auxiliary for Efficient tin Removal.ÌýOrg. Lett.Ìý2005,Ìý7, 2755-2758.
• Sibi, M. P.; Manyem, S.; Zimmerman, J. Enantioselective Radical Processes Chem. Rev. 2003, 103, 3263-3295.
• Sibi, M. P.; Zimmerman, J.; Rheault, T. Enantioselective Conjugate Radical Addition to b-Acyloxy Acrylate Acceptors: An Approach to Acetate Aldol-Type Products Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2003, 42, 4521-4523.