Biography
1966-1968 Welch Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas
1966 Ph.D. Syracuse University
1962 B.S. University of Wisconsin
Selected Publications
Davis, F. A.; Jenkins, L. A.; Billmers, R. L., "Chemistry of Sulfenic Acids 7. The Reason for the High Reactivity of Sulfenic Acids. Stabilization by Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonding and Electronegativity Effects," (1986), J. Org. Chem. 51, 1033-1040.
Davis, F. A.; Chen, B.‑C., "Asymmetric Hydroxylation of Enolates using N‑Sulfonyloxaziridines," (1992) Chem. Rev. 1992, 92, 919-934.
Davis, F. A.; Han W.; Murphy, C. K., "Selective, Electrophilic Fluorinations using N‑Fluoro-o-Benzenedisulfonimide (NFOBS)," (1995) J. Org. Chem. 60, 4730-4737.
Zhou, P.; Chen, B-C.; Davis, F. A., “Recent Advances in Asymmetric Reactions using Sulfinimines (N-Sulfinyl Imines),” (2004) Tetrahedron, 60, 8003 -8030.
Davis F. A.; Deng, J., “Asymmetric Total Synthesis of (-)-Agelastatin A using Sulfinimine (N-Sulfinyl Imine) Derived Methodologies,” (2005) Org. Lett. 7, 621-623.
Davis F. A., “Adventures in Sulfur-Nitrogen Chemistry,” (2006) J. Org. Chem. 71, 8993-9003.
Davis, F. A.; Theddu, N.; and Edupuganti, R., “Asymmetric Total Synthesis of (S)-(+)-Cocaine and the First Synthesis of a Cocaine C-1 Analogs from N-Sulfinyl b-Amino Ester Ketals,” (2010) Org. Lett., 12, 4118-4121.
Davis, F. A.; Gaddiraju, N. V.; Theddu, N.; Hummel, J. R.; Kondaveeti, S. K.; Zdilla M. J., “Enantioselective Synthesis of Cocaine C-1 Analogs using Sulfinimines (N-Sulfinyl Imines).” Journal of Organic Chemistry (2012) 77, 2345-2359.
Reith, E. A. M.; Solav, A.; Hashim, A.; Sheikh, I. S.; Theddu, N.; Gaddiraju, N. V.; Mehrotra, S.; Schmitt, K. C.; Murray, T. F.; Sershen, H.; Unterwald, E. M.; Davis, F. A., “Novel C-1 Substituted Cocaine Analogues Unlike Cocaine or Benztropine,” Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (2012) 343, 413-425
Davis, F. A., “Recent applications of N-sulfonyloxaziridines (Davis oxaziridines) in organic synthesis,” (2018) Tetrahedron, 74, 3198-3214.