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Specialization:
Inorganic Chemistry
Education:
Bio:
2019 B.R. Baker Memorial Award
2019 Outstanding Service to the Department Award
2018, 2019 Robert H. DeWolfe Teaching Fellowship in Organic Chemistry
2016 recipient of The National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship
Research:
Biomass Conversion
Inorganic Photochemistry
Lignin Disassembly
Publications:
Jacob A. Barrett, Yu Gao, Chris M. Bernt, Megan Chui, Anthony Tran, Marcus Foston, Peter. C. Ford. "Preserving Aromatic Products from the Reductive Depolymerization of Lignin via O-Methylation with Dimethyl Carbonate in Supercritical Methanol" ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.6b01827
Christopher M. Bernt, Giovanni Bottari, Jacob A. Barrett, Susannah L. Scott, Katalin Barta, and Peter C. Ford. “Mapping Relative Reactivities for Aromatic Models of Lignin Disassembly Over Cu-doped Porous Metal Oxides” Catal. Sci. Technol., 2016, Accepted Manuscript, DOI: 10.1039/C5CY01555C.