Current members of the Valente research team are Mr. Tyler Smith, Mr. Johnny Cooper, and Mr. Stephen Miller. Mr. Jace Pugh, Mr. Marcus Harris, Mr. Lester Tarbutton and Mr. Michael Moore. Separation of racemates into their enantiomeric components can be accomplished often with good efficiency through the medium of an intermediate diastereomeric compound.
Advantage is taken of the differential physical properties between the diastereomers.
Our group is interested in organic structures featuring variable C-O bond lengths which correlate with reactivity. In current work, we are exploring some of the factors that influence the open-cyclic equilibrium in solutions of relatively conformationally flexible aliphatic and aromatic oxoacid systems. Pseudoacids have a considerably richer structural chemistry than ordinary carboxylic acids, while sharing the same general outline of derivative types. Thus, pseudoacids can be transformed into pseudoacyl halides, pseudoesters, pseudoamides, and pseudoacyl anhydrides. A complete list of the publications emanating from the Valente research group.