Christopher Masi

Biography

Professor Masi joined the WSU faculty in the Fall of 2002 after teaching at Tulane University in New Orleans for 5 years. Outside of teaching General Chemistry and Organic Chemistry, Professor Masi is interested in organometallic chemistry, more specifically, the activation of carbon dioxide by organometallic complexes.  He recently co-authored "Complexes formed from reactions of Re(CO)3(H2O)3+ with amines used for biological buffering", which appeared in the Journal of Organometallic Chemistry in March 2012.

Education

  • Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in chemistry (2003)
  • A.B., College of the Holy Cross (1990)

Courses Taught

  • CHEM 201 Organic Chemistry I 

  • CHEM 203 Organic Chemistry II

  • CHEM 0211 Advanced Inorganic Chemistry