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.

Recent Publications and News Items
Noland, W. E.; Lanzatella, N. P. J. Heterocycl. Chem. 2009, 46, 1285.
Tritch, K. J.; Capek, J. A.; Klein, N. D.; Noland, W. E. ChemSpider Synthetic Pages 2017, 815, 1.
Noland WE, Brown CD, DeKruif RD, Lanzatella NP, Gao SM, Zabronsky AE, Tritch KJ, Synthetic Communications, 2018, 48, 1755-1765
Noland, W. E.; Lanzatella, N. P.; Sizova, E. P.; Venkatraman, L.; Afanasyev, O. V. J. Heterocycl. Chem. 2009, 46, 503.
Tritch, K. J.; Dix, S. E.; Rieger, J. L.; Noland, W. E. ChemSpider Synthetic Pages 2017, 814, 1.
Noland WE, Huisenga, MP, Herzig RJ, JA Rosenow, H Kim, Kroll NJ, Nesmelov A, Johnson BT, Duncan NS.
Ratanayanon J, Yue RA, Xiong K, Ong BK, Vo DT, Klein ND, Lang SB, Riley JK, Daniels SP, Tritch KJ. Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry, 2018, 55, 2698-2714
Noland, W. E.; Lanzatella, N. P.; Venkatraman, L.; Anderson, N. F.; Gullickson, G. C. J. Heterocycl. Chem. 2009, 46, 1154.
Noland, W. E.; Herzig, R. J.; Kumar, H. V.; Narina, V. S.; Elkin, P. K.; Valverde, K. I.; Kim. B. L. Tetrahedron, 2017, 73, 6341-6346.
Lastname, F.M.; Lastname, F.M. Journal, year, volume, X–X.
Noland, W. E.; Etienne, C. L.; Lanzatella, N. P. J. Heterocycl. Chem. 2011, 48, 381.
Schneerer, A.; Olson, N.; Noland, W.E. ChemSpider Synthetic Pages, 2017, 830, 1.
Noland, W. E.; Narina, V. S.; Britton, D. J. Chem. Res. 2011, 35, 694.
Noland, W. E.; Rieger, J. R.; Tua, Z. H.; Tritch, K. J. Acta Crystallographica Section E , 2017, 73, 1743-1746.
Britton, D.; Young, V. G.; Noland, W. E.; Pinnow, M. J.; Clark, C. M. Acta Cryst. Sect. B, 2012, 68, 536.
Noland. W. E and Tritcha. K. J. IUCrData, 2017, 2, x171617, 1-3
Noland, W. E.; Lanzatella, N. P.; Dickson, R. R.; Messner, M. E.; Nguyen, H. H. J. Heterocycl. Chem. 2013, 50, 795.
Schneerer, A.; Olson, N.; Noland. W. E. ChemSpider Synthetic Page, 2017, 831
Noland, W. E.; Gullickson, G. C.; Dickson, R. R.; Groess, L. L.; Tritch, K. J. Acta Crystallogr. Sect. E, 2014, 70, 192.
Noland. W. E.; Shudy, J. E.; Rieger. J. L.;Tu. H. Z.;Tritch. K. J. ActaCryst. E. 2017, E73, 1913–1916
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.
Noland WE, Britton D, Sutton GK, Schneerer AK, Tritch KJ Acta Crystallogr E Crystallogr Commun. 2018, 9;74(Pt 2):98-102.
Noland, W. E.; Brown, C. D.; Bisel, A. M.; Schneerer, A. K.; Tritch, K. J. Acta Crystallogr. Sect. E, 2015, 71, 1414.
Wayland E. Noland and Kenneth J. Tritch. 3,5-Dibromobenzonitrile, IUCrData, 2018, 3, x180059
Noland, W. E.; Worth, M. A.; Schneerer, A. K.; Paal, C. L.; Tritch, K. J. Acta Crystallogr. Sect. E 2015, 71, 516.