Ashley Longstreet
Assistant Professor
Office: SA 104
Education and Training:
- 2010 Lynchburg College, B.S. in Chemistry and Biomedical Science
- 2015 Florida State University, Ph.D. in Chemistry; with Dr. D. Tyler McQuade
- 2017 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, NIH Postdoctoral Fellow in Organic Chemistry; with Dr. Timothy F. Jamison
Research Interests:
Human-made organic molecules are major components in essential industries and building them requires chemical reactions that are efficient by utilizing inexpensive, non-toxic reagents that produce minimal waste. Reactions that produce carbon radicals, a carbon with an unpaired electron, are valuable due to their ability to facilitate transformations that allow chemists to piece together small molecules to produce large, more complex structures. Recently, molecules known as photocatalysts garnered attention due to their ability to generate the necessary radicals under mild conditions using only a fraction of the photocatalyst to minimize waste. Our research investigates the function of molecules called carbazoles as photocatalysts by demonstrating how the carbazole derivatives are valuable as photocatalysts in different transformations.
