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Erland P. Stevens

Department of Chemistry
Davidson College
P.O. Box 7120
Davidson NC 28035-7120
Phone: (704) 894-2305
Fax: (704) 894-2709
erstevens@davidson.edu

Associate Professor.
B.S., Duke University, 1991;
Ph.D., Univ. of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 1997;
post-doc, Scripps Res. Inst., 1997-1998.

Organic/medicinal chemistry.


Courses (information for current courses only)
  • CHE 201 Organic I
  • CHE 202 Organic II
  • CHE 303 Bioorganic
  • CHE 309 Medicinal - applets
  • CHE 381 Synthesis and Characterization
Research interests
  • Nitrogen heterocycles
  • Medicinal chemistry
  • Bioorganic chemistry


Recent publications
  • Jones, N. A.; Antoon, J. W.; Bowie, Jr., A. L.; Borak, J. B.; Stevens, E. P. Synthesis of 2,2'-Bipyridyl-Type Compounds via the Suzuki-Miyaura Cross-Coupling Reaction. J. Heterocycl. Chem., 2007, 44, 363-368.

  • Roque, D. R.; Neill, J. L.; Antoon, J. W.; Stevens, E. P. Synthesis of 1,2,3-Triazoles by Cycloadditions of Azides with Enol Ethers. Synthesis 2005, 2497-2502.

  • Williford, C. J.; Stevens, E. P. Strain Energies as a Steric Descriptor in QSAR Calculations. QSAR Comb. Sci. 2004, 23, 495-505.

  • Fuller, A. F.; Hester, H. R.; Salo, E. V.; Stevens, E. P. In situ formation and reaction of 2-pyridylboronic esters. Tetrahedron Lett. 2003, 44, 2935-2938.
Recent presentations
  • Poole, P. B.; Barley, K. M.; Stevens, E. P. Synthesis of 8-azapurine analogs. 231st National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, 2006 March 26-30, Atlanta, GA.

  • Roque, D. R.; Stevens, E. P. Synthesis of 1,2,3-triazoles by azide-enol ether cycloadditions. 56th Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, 2004 November 10-13, Research Triangle Park, NC. (792)

  • Jones, N. A.; Stevens, E. P. Synthesis of 2-(heteroaryl)pyridines by the Suzuki coupling. 56th Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, 2004 November 10-13, Research Triangle Park, NC. (619)

  • Neill, J.; Wilson, A.; Bernd, K.; Stevens, E. Synthesis and Biological Activity of 1,2,3-Triazoles. 226th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, 2003 November 16-19, Atlanta, GA. (MED 539)

  • Gooch, E.; Glenn, A.; Stevens, E. Medicinal Chemistry at Three Piedmont Colleges. 55th Southeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, 2003 November 16-19, Atlanta, GA. (CHED 284)

  • Stevens, E. P. Designing a medicinal chemistry course for instruction by organic faculty. 225th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, 2003 March 23-27; New Orleans, LA. (COMP-59)

  • Stevens, E. P.; Williford, C. J. Simplified steric parameters for use in QSAR calculations. 54th Southeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, 2002 November 13-16, Charleston, SC. (Medicinal Chemistry 184)

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