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Academic Background |
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| A Brief Overview: | |
| Dr. Elke Schoffers started her academic career at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, and continued graduate studies in the United States under the supervision of Professors I. Ojima (SUNY Stony Brook, M.S., 1991), C.R. Johnson (WSU, Ph.D., 1996), and A.J. Pearson (CWRU, postdoc, 1996-98). | |
| In 1998 she joined the Department of Chemistry at Western Michigan University where Dr. Schoffers is pursuing research opportunities with graduate and undergraduate students. | |
| Research Interests: Synthetic Organic, Medicinal and Organometallic Chemistry, Nanoscience Keywords: chemical sensor design, environmental pollutants, chemical warfare agents, biotransformations, bioactive molecules, nitrogen fixation, rhizopine synthesis, ligand design, heterocyclic and organometallic chemistry, stereoselective catalysis |
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| Current projects: address the functionalization of 1,10-phenanthroline for the development of catalysts and chemosensors. Another area focuses on the synthesis of metabolites that influence biological signals. This includes the preparation of specific inosamines (rhizopines) and related molecules that have been proposed as potential nutritional mediators for nitrogen fixation. |