Dr. Jocelyn M. Nadeau

Associate Professor of Chemistry

Bio

Dr. Nadeau teaches organic chemistry lecture and laboratory courses and conducts physical organic chemistry research in collaboration with undergraduates. She enjoys sharing her enthusiasm for organic chemistry with her students and mentoring them through the process of discovering and reaching their future career goals. Her research is focused on the synthesis and characterization of complex organic molecules with emissive or electrochemical properties for molecular electronics applications. She has coauthored several peer-reviewed publications with her students, and they have presented their research at numerous local and national conferences.

Education

BA, Chemistry, Smith College, 1997
PhD, Chemistry, Brown University, 2003
Postdoctoral Associate (Swager Group), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003-2005

Research Interests / Areas of Focus

Design, synthesis, and study of organic molecules with complex structures that exhibit interesting electrochemical and photophysical properties.

Selected Publications

Undergraduate coauthors are bolded:

鈥淭hiophene-substituted quinoxaline donor-acceptor dyes: Synthesis, NMR spectroscopy, X-ray crystallography, and photophysical properties鈥�, Lucht, B. M.; Monsky, R. J.; Rosko, M. C.; Tanski, J. M.; Nadeau, J. M. Tetrahedron 2025, 170, 134382.   

鈥淐rystal structure of a fluorescent C-shaped molecule containing closely stacked bithiophene-substituted quinoxaline rings鈥�, Wickham, L. M.; Tanski, J. M.; Nadeau, J. M. Acta Cryst. 2017, C73, 276鈥�279. 

"Synthesis and spectroscopic studies of highly fluorescent, solvatochromic diastereomers with differentially stacked bithiophene-substituted quinoxaline rings", Ciufo, R. A.; Kreinbihl, J. J.; Johnson, S. R.; Nadeau, J. M. Tetrahedron 2017, 73, 30-38.  

鈥淐-Shaped diastereomers containing cofacial thiophene-substituted quinoxaline rings:  synthesis, photophysical properties, and X-ray crystallography鈥�, DeBlase, C. R.; Finke, R. T.; Porras, J. A.; Tanski, J. M.; Nadeau, J. M. J. Org. Chem. 2014, 79, 4312鈥�4321.  

鈥淪ynthesis and redox properties of racemic electroactive polymers containing axially chiral adamantyl segments.鈥� Schenck, C. L.; Nadeau, J. M. Tetrahedron 2010, 66, 462鈥�466.  

鈥渟yn,syn-15,17-Di-2-naphthylhexacyclo[10.2.1.13,10.15,8.02,11.04,9]heptadecane deuterochloroform monosolvate.鈥� DeBlase, A. F.; Thong, D. C.; Nadeau, J. M.; Gebhart, D.; Provo, J.; Foxman, B. M. Acta Cryst. 2009, E65, o2427鈥搊2428.  https://doi.org/10.1107/S160053680903565X

鈥淣ew beta-linked pyrrole monomers:  Approaches to highly stable and conductive electrochromic polymers.鈥� Nadeau, J. M.; Swager, T. M. Tetrahedron 2004, 60, 7141鈥�7146.

鈥淗ole transfer in a C-shaped molecule:  Conformational freedom versus solvent-mediated coupling.鈥� Nadeau, J. M.; Liu, M.; Waldeck, D. H.; Zimmt, M. B. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 125, 15964鈥�15973.  

鈥沦迟别谤别辞颈蝉辞尘别谤颈肠&苍产蝉辫;辫-辩耻颈苍辞诲颈尘别迟丑补苍别蝉.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Cheng, W. J. Y.; Janosy, N. R.; Nadeau, J. M. C.; Rosenfeld, S.; Rushing, M.; Jasinski, J. P.; Rotello, V. J. Org. Chem. 1998, 63, 379鈥�382.  

Awards and Honors

Kilgariff Distinguished Service Award, 2021

Faculty Research Award, 2020

Student Government Association Faculty Member of the Year Award, 2018

Board of Trustees' Faculty Award for Distinguished Teaching, 2013

Student Government Association School of Science Faculty Member of the Year Award:  2009, 2012, 2015, and 2019

Outreach Volunteer of the Year Award, Mid-Hudson ACS Local Section, 2017

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Contact Information

Academic School

School of Science

Office

Donnelly 235B

Email

Jocelyn.Nadeau@marist.edu

Phone

(845) 575-3000 ext. 2224