Ramesh Jasti

Assistant Professor

Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Materials, Nanotechnology

Office: LSE 706
Phone: 617-358-5543
Fax: 617-353-6466
E-mail: jasti@bu.edu

Office hours: By Appointment

• B.S. in Chemistry with Honors and Distinction, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1998
• Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, 2006

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of California, Berkeley & The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (2006-2009)

• Fred Morrison Scholarship (1994-1998, funded entire undergraduate education)

  Dean’s List (5 semesters, 1994-1998)

  Golden Key National Honor Society (1996-1998)

CH 641 Physical Organic Chemistry
Currently developing undergraduate course on nanoscience

My research group is highly interdisciplinary, working at the interface of organic synthesis and nanoscience. We aim to utilize bottom-up strategies (organic synthesis) to construct carbon-based nanomaterials with structural control at the atomistic level. Currently, we are exploring new synthetic methods to prepare carbon nanotubes, graphene, and diamondoids. Our overarching goals are to utilize our precise synthetic methods to study the physical properties of these discrete nanostructures (physics) and correlate them with quantum mechanics (theory). Furthermore, we aim to apply our understanding of these new materials for the development of new nanotechnologies in the areas of energy, electronics, and medicine.

• Jasti Group page under construction

• Jasti, R.; Bhattacharjee, J.; Neaton, J. B.; Bertozzi, C. R. “The Synthesis, Characterization, and Theory of [9]-, [12]-, and [18]Cycloparaphenylene: Carbon Nanohoop Structures”, J. Am. Chem.Soc., 2008, 130, 17646-17647.
• Van Orden, L. J.; Jasti, R.; Rychnovsky, S. D. “Product Class 1: Dialkyl Ethers. Synthesis from Esters, Aldehydes, Ketones, and Acetals by Reduction or Alkylation,” In Science of Synthesis; Forsyth, C, J., Jacobsen, E. N. Ed.; Georg Thieme Verlag KG: Stuttgart, 2008; Vol. 37, pp. 9-46.
• Jasti, R.; Rychnovsky, S. D. “Racemization in Prins Cyclization Reactions,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 13640-13648.
• Jasti, R.; Rychnovsky, S. D. “Solvolysis of a Tetrahydropyranyl Mesylate: Mechanistic
  Implications for the Prins Cyclization, 2-Oxonia-Cope Rearrangement, and Grob Fragmentation,” Org. Lett., 2006, 8, 2175-2178.
• Jasti, R.; Anderson, C. D; Rychnovsky, S. D. “Utilization of an Oxonia-Cope Rearrangement as a Mechanistic Probe for Prins Cyclizations,” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2005, 127, 9939-9945.
• Jasti, R.; Vitale, J.; Rychnovsky, S. D. "Axial-Selective Prins Cyclizations by Solvolysis of alpha-Bromo Ethers," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2004, 126, 9904-9905.
• Hicks, J. F.; Templeton, A. C.; Chen, S.; Sheran, K. M.; Jasti, R.; Murray, R. W.; Debord, J.; Schaaff, T. G.; Whetten, R. L. “The Monolayer Thickness Dependence of Quantized Double-Layer Capacitances of Monolayer-Protected Gold Clusters,” Anal. Chem., 1999, 71, 3703-3711.