Radical Reactions

Nathan Price is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Chemistry at Virginia Tech with Prof. J. M. Tanko. He received his B.S. in Chemistry from Roanoke College in 2019. His research interests include mechanism discovery and the characterization of radical intermediates. He is currently working on the development of a novel single electron transfer mechanism for the reaction of monoamine oxidase with substrates related to 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP).

J. M. (Jim) Tanko is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Virginia Tech. He received his B.A. in Chemistry from UMBC, Ph.D. at Iowa State with Prof. Glen A. Russell, and was a postdoctoral researcher at Penn State with Prof. Philip S. Skell. His research interests involve electrochemical studies addressing the mechanism and kinetics of radical ion rearrangements and nanosecond laser flash photolysis to measure rate constants of reactions involving oxygen-centered radicals. Most recently, his group has turned its attention to the mechanism of the monoamine oxidase catalyzed oxidations of compounds related to the neurotoxin MPTP.