Address

Fulmer 420
Pullman, WA 99164-4630

(509) 335-3365 / 5-4338
email: dmatteson@wsu.edu

Education

• PhD Chemistry, 1957
  University of Illinois
• BS Chemistry, 1954
  University of California, Berkeley, CA

Research

Professor Matteson has been at WSU since 1958. After completing his undergraduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, and his graduate work at the University of Illinois, Urbana, he spent one year as a research chemist at the du Pont Central Research Department. He has been recognized with an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship. He has served on the editorial advisory board of the American Chemical Society Journal, Organometallics, and of the new journal Heteroatom Chemistry.

The two great challenges of synthetic organic chemistry at the present time are the control of stereochemistry and the efficient construction of carbon-carbon bonds. We have discovered a method for the efficient connection of carbon atoms with very high asymmetric selectivity which uses a chiral boronic ester group as the template. We have recently obtained diastereoisomer ratios as high as 1000:1. This chemistry is useful for making a wide variety of biologically interesting molecules, including insect pheromones, sugars, amino acids labeled with stable isotopes, antibiotics, and boronic acids that are enzyme inhibitors.

A simple example of how this chemistry works, the synthesis of an alcohol which is a component of the pheromone of the elm bark beetle is illustrated by the structure diagrams.

Publications

• Kim, B. J.; Matteson, D. S. Angew,"Conversion of Alkyltrifluoroborates into Alkyldichloroboranes with Tetrachlorosilane in Coordinating Solvents", Chem. 2004, 116, 3118-3120; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2004, 43, 3056-3058
• Strickler, M.; Goldstein, B. M.; Maxfield, K.; Shireman, L.; Kim, G.; Matteson, D. S.; Jones, J. P.,"Crystallographic Studies on the Complex Behavior of Nicotine Binding to P450cam (CYP101)", Biochemistry 2003, 42, 11943-11950
• Matteson, D. S., "Asymmetric Syntheses with Fluoroboranes from Boronic Esters" in "Boron Chemistry at the Beginning of the 21st Century", Bubnov, Y., Ed, A. N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 2003, 60-65
• Matteson, D. S., "New Asymmetric Syntheses with Boronic Esters and Fluoroboranes", Pure Appl. Chem. 2003,75, 1249-1253
• Matteson, D. S.; Fernando, D. J., "Bromination of Tri(isopropyl)boroxine and Asymmetric Synthesis of (2-Cyano-3,3-dimethylcyclopropyl)boronic Esters", Organomet. Chem. 2003,680, 100-105