Degree

PhD in Chemistry

University of Denver

BS in Chemistry

The Metropolitian State University of Denver

Published Works

• Cronk, C. W. . Organic Chemistry Lab II (CHE 3130) Background Text. (). .
• Cronk, C. W. . Organic Chmistry Lab I (CHE 3120) Background Text. (). .
• Schelble, M. S., Cronk, C. W., Buckner, J. (2021). Scaffolding NMR Teaching and Learning at an Undergraduate Program in a Virtual World. (1376, pp 23-40). ACS Publications. https://doi.org/10.1021/bk-2021-1376.ch003
• Doda, R. S., Mukhina, A. O., Cronk, C. W., Kutateladze, G. A. (2017). Polyheterocycle-carbohydrate chimeras: photoassisted synthesis of 2,5-epoxybenzoxacines and 2,5-epoxybenzazocine scaffolds and their postphotochemical hydroxylations. Pure and Applied Chemistry, 89(2), 259-268. https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2016-0915.
• Cronk, C. W., Mukhina, A. O., Kutateladze, G. A. (2016). Photoinduced "Double Click" Cascade Offers Access to Complex Polyheterocycles from Readily Available Isatin-Based Photoprecursors. Organic Letters/ACS Publications, 18(15), 3750-3753. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.orglett.6b01775.
• Cronk, C. W. (2015). Photogenerated o-Azaxylylenes: Mechanistic Studies and Synthetic Applications. Digital Commons @ DU. https://digitalcommons.du.edu/etd/1020
• Mukhina, A. O., Cronk, C. W., Kumar, N. B., Sekhar, M. C., Samanta, A., Kutateladze, G. A. (2014). Intramolecular Cycloadditions of Photogenerated Azaxylylenes: an Experimental and Theoretical Study. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 118(45), 10487-10496. https://doi.org/10.1021/jp504281y.
• Cronk, C. W., Mukhina, A. O., Kutateladze, G. A. (2014). Intramolecular Photoassisted Cycloadditions of Azaxylylenes and Post-Photochemical Capstone Modifications via Suzuki Coupling Provide Access to Complex Polyheterocyclic Biaryls. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 79(3), 1235-1246. https://doi.org/10.1021/jo4026447.

Research Interests

Synthetic organic chemist utilizing a combination of diverse photochemical reactions, substrates, and reagents to provide an efficient approach to pharmaceutical synthesis under the paradigm of diversity-oriented synthesis. Prior publications focus on organic synthesis, photochemistry, transition metal catalyzed coupling reactions, mechanism elucidation, as well as cascade reactions. Prior publications appear in The Journal of Organic Chemistry, Organic Letters, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A., and Pure and Applied Chemistry.