The Noland Research Group | Department of Chemistry

Principal Research Interests

Research in Professor Noland’s group is focused on heterocyclic nitrogen and/or sulfur chemistry, including the chemistry of nitro compounds, with emphasis on synthesis, mechanisms, and submission of compounds for testing for medicinal activity. To date, activity has been found against cancer (in two classes of compounds), AIDS, tuberculosis, and plants, including fungi. Currently, emphasis is also being placed on the synthesis of benzofurazan oxides, nitriles, isonitriles, and their analogs, to observe interactions, especially with halogens, in the crystalline state. This is being carried out in a fruitful collaboration with the late-Professor Emeritus Doyle Britton, who founded the department’s X-ray crystallographic laboratory.

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Recent Publications and News Items

Synthesis of Vinylindoles and Vinylpyrroles by the Peterson Olefination or by Use of the Nysted Reagent

Noland, W. E.; Etienne, C. L.; Lanzatella, N. P. J. Heterocycl. Chem. 2011, 48, 381.

Reductive Amination of Tryptophan; Dimethyltryptophan

Schneerer, A.; Olson, N.; Noland, W.E. ChemSpider Synthetic Pages, 2017, 830, 1.

Synthesis and crystallography of 8-halonaphthalene-1-carbonitriles and naphthalene-1,8-dicarbonitrile

Noland, W. E.; Narina, V. S.; Britton, D. J. Chem. Res. 2011, 35, 694.

A 2:1 co-crystal of 3,5-dibromo-4-cyanobenzoic acid and anthracene

Noland, W. E.; Rieger, J. R.; Tua, Z. H.; Tritch, K. J. Acta Crystallographica Section E , 2017, 73, 1743-1746.

Four polymorphs (polytypes) of 5,6-dimethylbenzofurazan 1-oxide

Britton, D.; Young, V. G.; Noland, W. E.; Pinnow, M. J.; Clark, C. M. Acta Cryst. Sect. B, 2012, 68, 536.

2,6-Dibromo-4-nitrobenzonitrile

Noland. W. E and Tritcha. K. J. IUCrData, 2017, 2, x171617, 1-3

Access to Indoles via Diels–Alder Reactions of 5-Methylthio-2-vinylpyrroles with Maleimides

Noland, W. E.; Lanzatella, N. P.; Dickson, R. R.; Messner, M. E.; Nguyen, H. H. J. Heterocycl. Chem. 2013, 50, 795.

Cyclo-alkylation of the primary amine of tryptophan methyl ester to a pyrrolidine; Methyl 3-(1H-indol-3-yl)-2-(pyrrolidin-1-yl)propanoate

Schneerer, A.; Olson, N.; Noland. W. E. ChemSpider Synthetic Page, 2017, 831

Crystal structure of (±)-(3aR,5R,8bR)-5-hydroperoxy-2-phenyl-6-tosyl-4,5,6,8b-tetrahydropyrrolo[3,4-e]indole-1,3(2H,3aH)-dione

Noland, W. E.; Gullickson, G. C.; Dickson, R. R.; Groess, L. L.; Tritch, K. J. Acta Crystallogr. Sect. E, 2014, 70, 192.

Crystal structures of 2,6-dibromo-4-methylbenzo- nitrile and 2,6-dibromo-4-methylphenyl isocyanide

Noland. W. E.; Shudy, J. E.; Rieger. J. L.;Tu. H. Z.;Tritch. K. J. ActaCryst. E. 2017, E73, 1913–1916

Crystal structure of (1S,2R,6R,7R,8S,12S)-4,10,17-triphenyl-15-thia-4,10-diazapentacyclo[5.5.5.01,16.02,6.08,12]heptadeca-13,16-diene-3,5,9,11-tetrone p-xylene hemisolvate

Noland, W. E.; Kroll, N. J.; Huisenga, M. P.; Yue, R. A.; Lang, S. B.; Klein, N. D.; Tritch, K. J. Acta Crystallogr. Sect. E, 2014, 70, 550.

Crystal structures of 2,4,6-tri-iodo-benzo-nitrile and 2,4,6-tri-iodo-phenyl isocyanide.

Noland WE, Britton D, Sutton GK, Schneerer AK, Tritch KJ Acta Crystallogr E Crystallogr Commun. 2018, 9;74(Pt 2):98-102.

Crystal structure of rac-3-[2,3-bis(phenylsulfanyl)-3H-indol-3-yl]propanoic acid

Noland, W. E.; Brown, C. D.; Bisel, A. M.; Schneerer, A. K.; Tritch, K. J. Acta Crystallogr. Sect. E, 2015, 71, 1414.

3,5-Dibromobenzonitrile

Wayland E. Noland and Kenneth J. Tritch. 3,5-Dibromobenzonitrile, IUCrData, 2018, 3, x180059

Crystal structure of rac-(3a'R,9a'R)-3a'-(indol-3-yl)-1′,2′,3′,3a',4′,9a'-hexahydrospiro[cyclopentane-1,9′-pentaleno[1,2-b]indole] p-xylene hemisolvate

Noland, W. E.; Worth, M. A.; Schneerer, A. K.; Paal, C. L.; Tritch, K. J. Acta Crystallogr. Sect. E 2015, 71, 516.

Crystal structures of methyl 3,5-di¬bromo-4-cyano¬benzoate and methyl 3,5-di-bromo-4-iso¬cyano¬benzoate

Noland WE, Herzig RJ, Engwall AJ, Jensen RC, Tritch KJ.Acta Crystallogr E Crystallogr Commun. 2018, 13;74(Pt 3):345-348

Two new polytypes of 2,4,6-tribromobenzonitrile

ritton, D.; Noland, W. E.; Tritch, K. J. Acta Crystallogr. Sect. E, 2016, 72, 178.

Crystal structures of methyl 3,5-di-bromo-4-cyano-benzoate and methyl 3,5-di-bromo-4-iso-cyano-benzoate

Noland WE, Herzig RJ, Engwall AJ, Jensen RC, Tritch KJ. Acta Crystallogr E Crystallogr Commun. 2018, 13;74(Pt 3):345-348

N′-Acylation of (3,2′)-indole dimers

Noland, W. E.; Kumar, H. V.; Lu, C.; Brown, C. D.; Wiley-Schaber, E.; Johansson, A.; LaBelle, E. V.; O'Brian, N. C.; Jensen, R. C.; Tritch, K. J. Tetrahedron Letters. 2016, 57, 2158

2,6-Dibromo-4-chlorophenyl isocyanide

Noland WE and Tritch KJ

Diels-alder reactions of 2-(2-nitroethenyl)-1H-pyrroles and their oxygen and sulfur analogs with quinones

Noland, W. E.; Pardi, G. J. Heterocycl. Chem. 2005, 42, 1149.

The Structure of Crystalline Agnotobenzaldehyde

Noland, W. E.; Gullickson, G. C.; van Lengerich, H.; Erdman, P. J.; Tritch, K. J. J. Chem. Crystallogr. 2017, 47, 80.

Synthesis of 2-(9H-carbazol-1-yl)anilines from 2,3′-biindolyl and ketones

Noland WE, Brown CD, Zabronsky AE, Tritch KJ, Tetrahedron, 2018, 74, 2391-2404

Synthesis of 5-Substituted 4,5,6,7-Tetrahydroindoles from Cyclohexanones

Lee, C. K.; Lee, I. S. H.; Noland, W. E. Heterocycles 2007, 71, 419

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