UWF - Department of Chemistry - Dr. Michael Huggins

Dr. Michael T. Huggins
Dept Chair/Associate Professor
Office: Bldg. 58, Rm. 101
Email:mhuggins@uwf.edu
Phone: 850-474-2741

Complete Curriculum Vitae

Education:
A.A. - Chipola Junior. College, 1994
B.S. - University of West Florida, 1996
Ph.D - University of Nevada, Reno, 2000
Post-Doctoral Research - University of Texas at Austin, 2000-2002
University of West Florida since 2002

Awards:
College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Teaching Award (2004)
Department of Chemistry Research Assistant of the Year (2000)
R. C. Fuson Graduate Fellow (1998-2000)
Department of Chemistry Teaching Assistant of the Year (1998)
Monsanto Award in Chemistry (1996)

Affiliations:
Working Group in Biological Chemistry
Project SEED
Pensacola Chapter, American Chemical Society

Courses Taught:

CHM 2210 - Organic Chem. I	CHM 2210L - Organic Chem. I Laboratory
CHM 2211 - Organic Chem. II	CHM 2211L - Organic Chem. II Laboratory
CHM 3230 - Organic Chem. III	CHM 3740L – Advanced Lab. Techniques
CHM 4912 - Chemistry Undergraduate Research Chemistry	CHM 4930 - Seminar: Special Topics in Advanced

Research - Click Here for More Details

Study of weak interactions (hydrogen bonding, p-p stacking, etc) in small molecule model systems in solution and the solid state as a method to control molecular recognition events.
Preparation and study of oligopyrrole-based anion receptors for use as chemosensors.
Synthesis of pyridine N-oxides for the study of weak hydrogen bonds involving C-H groups
Synthesis and characterization of dipyrrinone analogs for studies in hydrogen bonding and coordination chemistry

Selected Publications [UWF Undergraduates Underlined & Project SEED (high school) students all caps]

“A Short, Efficient Syntheses of Pyrrole a-Amides” Huggins, Michael T.; Barber, Patrick; FLORIAN, DAVID; and Howton, William Synthetic Communications, 2008, Accepted.
“Molecular Recognition Studies with a Simple Dipyrrinone” Michael T. Huggins, Chris Musto, Lyndsay Munro, and Vincent J. Catalano, Tetrahedron, 2007, 63(52), 12994-12999.
“Nuclear Overhauser Effect: An Advanced Undergraduate Laboratory Experiment” Huggins, M. T.; Billiamoria, F. N. J. Chemical Education, 2007, 84(3), 471-474.
"Novel N(23)-C(10)-Linked Linear Tetrapyrroles" Salzameda, N. T.; Huggins, M. T.; Lightner, D. A. Tetrahedron, 2006, 9827-9831.
Osborne, E. A..; Huggins, M. T., “Synthesis and characterization of bipyrrole and dipyrrolylmethane anion receptors”Abstracts of Papers, 229th ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, United States, March 13-17, 2005, CHED-509.
“Synthesis and Study of a Calix[4]pyrrole-Texaphyrn Chimera. A new Oligopyrrole Chloride Anion Receptor”; Sessler, J. L.; Cho, W.-S.; Dudek, S. P.; Hicks, L.; Lynch, V.; Huggins, M. T. J. Porph. and Pthalocyan. 2003, 97-104.
“Dipyrrylquinoxaline-Crown Ether Conjugates: Ditopic Receptors.” Kirkovits, G. J.; Zimmerman, R. S.; Huggins, M. T.; Lynch, V.M.; Sessler, J. L. Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2002, 3768-3778.
“A C-H...O=C Hydrogen Bond? Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonding in a Novel Semirubin.” Huggins, M. T.; Lightner, D. A. J. Org. Chem., 2001, 66, 8402-8410.

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