Dr. Toby Chapman has been with the University of Pittsburgh since 1967. He started as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry before he was promoted to Associate Professor in 1974. Dr. Chapman earned his doctorate from Polytechnic University in New York, where he studied polymer chemistry and anionic styrene copolymerizations. He then became a NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Medical School.
While Dr. Chapman originally focused on peptide and nucleic acid synthesis, he soon added more traditional polymer chemistry, including the synthesis of low surface energy polyurethanes and a variety of polymeric amphiphiles of non-traditional structure. His endeavors soon led to dendritic polymers with mPEG-dend-polylysine copolymers as well as other amine containing polymers based on poly(N-vinylformamide). He also studies synergistic activity, which synthesizes two generations of the p-(phenylene vinylene) monodendron and forms the basis of a DOE proposal on photochemical hydrogen production.
In addition to his work, Dr. Chapman is a member of the American Association for theAdvancement of Science and the American Chemical Society.
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Dr. Toby ChapmanPhone: (412) 624-8250
Email: tchapman@pitt.edu