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LTC Victor Jaffett

Assistant Director, Chemistry Program

victor.jaffett@westpoint.edu

Biography

Lieutenant Colonel Jaffett is an Academy Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Life Science. He earned a B.S. in systems engineering from the United States Military Academy in 2002, and commissioned as a signal officer.  He has served in tactical signal, and Stryker infantry units with operational deployments to Iraq. He received both his MS and Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 2011 and 2019 respectively. 

LTC Jaffett is currently the Course Director for Organic Chemistry I and II.  Previously, he has taught General Chemistry I and II.  Additionally, he formerly served as the Assistant Course Director for Organic Chemistry I and II.

 

Ongoing Research Projects

Lieutenant Colonel Jaffett’s research interests include synthesis of Iridium cyclometalated complexes for exploration of non-linear optical properties and the characterization of thermal degradation products of polyfluoroalkyl substances.

Publications & Presentations

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Ryan P. Kreiser, Aidan K. Wright, Liam R. Sasser, Dillon J. Rinauro, Tristan McKenzie, J. Alex Albright, Lance Richardson, Victor A. Jaffett, Dawn E. Riegner, Lam T. Nguyen, Kathleen LeForte, Michael Zasloff, Fabrizio Chiti, Jared E. Hollows, Michele Vendruscolo, Ryan Limbocker*. “A brain permeable aminosterol regulates cell membranes to mitigate the toxicity of diverse pore-forming agents.” ACS Chem. Neurosci. 2022, 13, 8, 1219–1231.

Victor A. Jaffett, Jhewelle Fitz-Henley, Muhammad Khalifa, Ilia Guzei, Jennifer Golden*. Diastereoselective, Multicomponent Synthesis of Pyrrolopyrazinoquinazolinones via a Tandem Quinazolinone Rearrangement/ Intramolecular Ring Closure of Tautomeric (Z)-Benzamidines. Org. Lett., 2021, 23, 5799–5803, DOI:10.1021/acs.orglett.1c01955.

Gang Yan, Bereket L. Zekarias, Xiaoyu Li, Victor A. Jaffett, Ilia A. Guzei, Jennifer E. Golden*. Divergent 2-Chloroquinazolin-4(3H)-one Rearrangement: Twisted-Cyclic Guanidine Formation or Ring-Fused N-Acylguanidines via a Domino Process.  Chem. Eur. J., 2020, 26, 2486-2492.

Victor A. Jaffett, Alok Nerurkar, Xufeng Xao, Ilia Guzei, Jennifer Golden*. Telescoped synthesis of C3-functionalized (E)-arylamidines using Ugi–Mumm and regiospecific quinazolinone rearrangements. Org. Biomol. Chem., 2019,17, 3118-3128.

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Abstracts & Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings

Victor A. Jaffett, Ryan M. O’Donnell, Thomas N. Rohrabaugh, Jr., Jack M. Harrison, Nanki Verma, Chi K. Nguyen and William M. Shensky III. "Derivatized Phenylbenzothiazole Cyclometalating Ligands for Reverse Saturable Absorption Materials Development." SPIE Photonics West 2022, San Francisco, CA, 22-27 January 2022. (Invited, Oral)

Peyton A. Visconti, Richard J. Russel, Victor A. Jaffett and Dawn E. Riegner. “Derivatives of rhodamine-B and fluorescein as colorimetric sensors for nerve agent simulant.” American Chemical Society Spring Meeting 2022, San Diego, CA, 19-22 March 2022. (Poster)

Nanki Verma, Danielle Cross, Jack Harrison, Thomas N. Rohrabaugh Jr, Ryan M. O’Donnell, William M. Shensky, Victor A. Jaffett, Chi K. Nguyen. Synthesis of organometallic chromophores to investigate novel materials for reverse saturable absorption. ACS Virtual Meeting Spring 2021, April 2021. (Poster)

Victor Jaffett, Alok Nerurkar, Xufeng Cao, Jennifer E. Golden* Telescoped Multicomponent Synthesis of Novel Amidobenzamidines via an Intramolecular Rearrangement of Substituted Quinazolinones. MIKI Meeting-in-Miniature, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, April 2018. (Poster)

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