Steven Farmer

Office

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Education

Ph.D., Organic Chemistry, University of California, Davis, 9/02.

MS, Chemistry, California State University, Sacramento, 8/96.

BS, Chemistry, University of California, Davis, 6/94.

Research

My main area of research involves developing and utilizing ring contracting sulfur extrusion routes for the carbazole ring structure. An interesting use of these new desulfurization methods would be generating a general synthesis routes to natural products with the carbazole ring structure.

Another area of my research interests involves grafting polymer chains from the surface of organic crystals to form core/shell nanoparticles. These polymer encapsulated organic nanocrystals could provide new methods for drug delivery and film formation.