Skip to main content

Department of Chemistry, Physics, and Atmospheric Sciences – CHEMISTRY
College of Science, Engineering, and Technology


 

Chemistry is the study of how matter behaves at its most basic level. The central science, chemistry, is involved in everything that we do. Its applications stretch across all areas of life, including medicine, engineering and agriculture.

 

Ashton T. Hamme II

 

 

 

 

 

 

Associate Professor

Jackson State University
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
1400 J. R. Lynch Street
P.O. Box 17910
Jackson, MS 39217-0510

Physical location:

John A. Peoples Science Building
Office: room #539

Contact:

E-mail: ashton.t.hamme@jsums.edu
Tel: (601) 979-3713
Fax: (601) 979-3674

Hamme Research Group

Teaching

Organic Chemistry Part I CHEM 241
Organic Chemistry Part II CHEM 242
Organic Chemistry Laboratory Part I CHML 241
Organic Chemistry Laboratory Part II CHML 242
Advanced Organic Synthesis CHEM 738

Research Interests: Organic chemistry

The Hamme research group is interested in the synthesis of biologically active heterocyclic containing natural products and their synthetic analogues. Our synthetic approach usually incorporates a 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction of a 1,3-dipole with a functionalized alkene or alkyne to afford the corresponding heterocyclic compound which usually serves as a precursor to a more complex ring system. Our research group is also interested in the use of pure water as a reaction medium for organic synthesis.

Selected publications

Dadiboyena, S.; Valente, E. J.; Hamme, A. T. II “Synthesis of Novel Pyrazoles via [2+3]-Dipolar Cycloaddition Using Alkyne Surrogates” Tetrahedron Lett. 2010, 51, 1341-1343.

Ellis, E. D.; Xu, J.; Valente, E. J.; Hamme, A. T. II “Construction of Novel Spiroisoxazolines via Intramolecular Cyclization/Methylation” Tetrahedron Lett. 2009, 50, 5516-5519.

McClendon, E.; Omollo, A. O.; Valente, E. J.; Hamme, A. T. II “Oxonium Ion Mediated Synthesis of 4-Substituted Spiro-Isoxazolines” Tetrahedron Lett. 2009, 50, 533-535.

Dadiboyena, S.; Valente, E. J.; Hamme, A. T. II “A Novel Synthesis of 1,3,5-Trisubstituted Pyrazoles through a Spiro-pyrazoline Intermediate via a Tandem 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition/Elimination” Tetrahedron Lett. 2009, 50, 291-294.

Xu, J.; Hamme, A. T. II “Efficient Access to Isoxazoles from Alkenes” Synlett 2008, 919-923.

Rasulev, B. F.; Toropov, A. A.; Hamme, A. T. II; Leszczynski, Jerzy. “Multiple linear regression analysis and optimal descriptors: predicting the Cholesteryl Ester Transfer Protein inhibition activity” QSAR & Combinatorial Science 2008, 27, 595-606.

Dadiboyena, S.; Xu, J.; Hamme, A. T. II “Isoxazoles from 1,1-Disubstituted Bromoalkenes” Tetrahedron Lett. 2007, 48, 1295-1298.

Xu, J.; Wang, J.; Ellis, E. D.; Hamme, A. T. II “Spiroisoxazoline Synthesis via Intramolecular Cyclization/Methylation” Synthesis 2006, 3815-3818.

Song, Y.; Xu, J.; Hamme, A.; Liu, Y-M. “Capillary Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry of Tetrahydroisoquinoline Derived Neurotoxins: Study on the Blood-Brain Barrier of Rat Brain” J. Chromatogr. A 2006, 1103, 229.

Hamme, A. T. II; Xu, J.; Wang, J.; Cook, T.; Ellis, E. “Synthesis of Functionalized 5,5-Disubstituted Isoxazolines via 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition Reactions of Geminal Disubstituted Alkenes” Heterocycles 2005, 65, 2885-2892.

READY TO JOIN?

For more information, please contact us at (601) 979-7012.  We look forward to meeting with you and seeing how our program can help you achieve your goals.

DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY, PHYSICS, AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES

Address

Jackson State University
Department of Chemistry
1325 J. R. Lynch St.
P.O. Box 17910
Jackson, MS 39217-0510

Contact

(601) 979-2171