Microscale and Miniscale Organic Chemistry Laboratory Experiments, 2nd Edition

Allen Schoffstall graduated from Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, with a B.S. in chemistry. He earned his Ph.D. in organic chemistry at the State University of New York-Buffalo, with thesis work done on synthetic phosphorylation under the mentorship of Professor Howard Tieckelmann. His postdoctoral work on the synthesis of nucleoside analogs was done as a National Institutes of Health Fellow under the supervision of Professor Nelson J. Leonard at the University of Illinois.

Dr. Schoffstall has taught organic chemistry for over thirty years. He has been at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs for most of his career, except for sabbatical and other leave, first at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he worked in collaboration with Professor Cyril Ponnamperuma on phosphorylation pathways related to prebiotic chemistry. Professor Schoffstall also spent a sabbatical leave in collaboration with Professor Al Padwa of the Department of Chemistry at Emory University doing research on dipolar cycloaddition, and he spent an additional academic year at Emory introducing microscale organic chemistry to their organic laboratories. He also taught organic chemistry for a semester at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.

Professor Schoffstall has always stressed the importance of undergraduate research activities and accomplishments to his students, and he has encouraged students to participate and present their research results at regional and national professional meetings. He and his students have had the support of grants from the Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society and from the National Science Foundation scientific equipment programs, particularly for a high-field NMR spectrometer and a GC/mass spectrometer.

Dr. Schoffstall and his wife Carole, who is Professor of Nursing and Dean of the Beth El College of Nursing and Health Sciences at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, enjoy outdoor activities made possible by the wonderful environment of Colorado. They especially value all of their associations with friends, colleagues, students, and former students at Beth El and CU Colorado Springs.