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Greg Petruncio
- Postdoctoral Fellow
Contact Info
- Name
- Greg M Petruncio
- Job Title
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Phone Number
- Office Number
- Institute of Advanced Biomedical Research Room 3300 & 3038 10920 George Mason Circle Manassas, VA 20110
Affiliations
Departments
- Chemistry & Biochemistry Department (AdjunctResearch Faculty)
Research Areas
- Chemistry
Education
PhD, Organic Chemistry, George Mason University (2021)
BS, Chemistry, George Mason University (2016)
About
Postdoctoral fellow under Dr. Mikell Paige - Maintain the 400 MHz NMR spectrometer on SciTech campus.
Current Research
Synthesis of small molecule modulators of Leukotriene A4 Hydrolase (LTA4H) aminopeptidase (AP) activity - Synthesis of small molecule inhibitors and natural product analogs for inhibition of Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEEV)
Teaching Focus
Organic Chemistry I & II
Selected Publications
Petruncio, G.; Girgis, M.; Moummi, S.; Jayatilake, M.; Lee, K. H.; Paige, M. Utilizing a Copper-Free Sonogashira Reaction in the Synthesis of the Leukotriene A4 Hydrolase Modulator Batatasin IV. Tetrahedron Letters 2020, 61 (47), 152547. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tetlet.2020.152547.
Petruncio, G.; Shellnutt, Z.; Elahi-Mohassel, S.; Alishetty, S.; Paige, M. Skipped Dienes in Natural Product Synthesis. Natural Product Reports 2021. https://doi.org/10.1039/D1NP00012H.
Li, L.; Patil, D.; Petruncio, G.; Harnden, K. K.; Somasekharan, J. V.; Paige, M.; Wang, L. V.; Salvador-Morales, C. Integration of Multitargeted Polymer-Based Contrast Agents with Photoacoustic Computed Tomography: An Imaging Technique to Visualize Breast Cancer Intratumor Heterogeneity. ACS Nano 2021, 15 (2), 2413–2427. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.0c05893.
Petruncio, G. Effect of Modifier Structure on the Activation of Leukotriene A4 Hydrolase Aminopeptidase Activity. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 2019. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jmedchem.9b00663.
Petruncio, G.; Elahi-Mohassel, S.; Girgis, M.; Paige, M. Copper-Catalyzed Sp3-Sp3 Cross-Coupling of Turbo Grignards with Benzyl Halides. 2021, 153516. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tetlet.2021.153516.
Contact Info
- Name
- Greg M Petruncio
- Job Title
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Phone Number
- Office Number
- Institute of Advanced Biomedical Research Room 3300 & 3038 10920 George Mason Circle Manassas, VA 20110