William Setzer
William Setzer received his B.S. degree in chemistry from Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California. He received his Ph.D. degree in organic chemistry, under the direction of Dick Glass, from the University of Arizona in 1981. He was a postdoctoral fellow with Wes Bentrude at the University of Utah and an Alexander von Humboldt research fellow in the laboratory of Paul von Ragué Schleyer at the University of Erlangen. He joined the chemistry department at the University of Alabama in Huntsville in 1985 and is currently a Professor and Chair of the department. Will Setzer’s research interests are in phytochemistry, natural products drug discovery, and chemical ecology. He has authored more than 150 publications.
Biography Updated on 29 November 2007
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Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]
- Chemical composition and cytotoxic activity of the leaf essential oil of Eugenia zuchowskiae from Monteverde, Costa Rica
Journal of Natural Medicines, vol. 61, no. 4, pp. 414–417, 2007 - Chemical composition of essential oils of seven species of Eugenia from Monteverde, Costa Rica
Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, vol. 35, no. 12, pp. 877–886, 2007 - Leaf essential oil composition of 10 species of Ocotea (Lauraceae) from Monteverde, Costa Rica
Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, vol. 35, no. 8, pp. 525–532, 2007 -
Cytotoxic Effects of Taxodium distichum Oils
Pharmaceutical Biology, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 106–110, 2007 - Abaco Bush Medicine:
Journal of Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 45–67, 2007 - Chemical composition of the floral essential oil ofRandia matudae from Monteverde, Costa Rica
Flavour and Fragrance Journal, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 244–246, 2006 - Bioactive principles in the bark of Pilidiostigma tropicum
Journal of Molecular Modeling, vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 703–711, 2006 - Identification of the main volatile compounds in the leaf and flower of Tithonia diversifolia (Hemsl) Gray
Journal of Natural Medicines, vol. 61, no. 1, pp. 63–66, 2006 - Identification of the volatile constituents of Brachystegia eurycoma Harms
International Journal of Aromatherapy, vol. 16, no. 3-4, pp. 155–158, 2006 - Studies on the essential oils composition, antibacterial and cytotoxicity of L.
International Journal of Aromatherapy, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 147–152, 2005 - Leaf essential oil composition of five Zanthoxylum species from Monteverde, Costa Rica
Molecular Diversity, vol. 9, no. 1-3, pp. 3–13, 2005 - Isolation of Cupanioside, a Novel Cytotoxic and Antibacterial Long-Chain Fatty Alcohol Glycoside from the Bark ofCupania glabra
Planta Medica, vol. 71, no. 7, pp. 686–688, 2005 - Metal-Ion Recognition—Selective Bulk Membrane Transport of Silver(I) Using Thioether Donor Macrocycles as Ionophores, and X-Ray Structure of the Silver Complex of an S4-Donor Ring
Australian Journal of Chemistry, vol. 57, no. 2, p. 161, 2004 - Antimicrobial activity of Artemisia douglasiana leaf essential oil
Fitoterapia, vol. 75, no. 2, pp. 192–200, 2004 - Composition and bioactivity of the leaf essential oil of Heteropyxis dehniae from Zimbabwe
Journal of Ethnopharmacology, vol. 92, no. 1, pp. 107–111, 2004 - HPLC-NMR/HPLC-MS analysis of the bark extract of Stauranthus perforatus
Phytochemical Analysis, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 54–59, 2003 - Cytotoxic activity of Ozoroa insignis from Zimbabwe
Fitoterapia, vol. 74, no. 7-8, pp. 732–735, 2003 - Isolation and Characterization of a Stilbene-degrading Strain of Pseudomonas fluorescens, and Production of Antioxidant Compounds by Stilbene Metabolism
Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry, vol. 67, no. 10, pp. 2286–2287, 2003 - (1,4,7,11,14,17-Hexathia-9,9,19,19-tetrahydroxymethylcycloicosane)silver(I) nitrate
Acta Crystallographica Section E Structure Reports Online, vol. 59, no. 10, pp. m880–m882, 2003 - Plant-Derived Triterpenoids as Potential Antineoplastic Agents
Mini Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry, vol. 3, no. 6, pp. 540–556, 2003 - Agatholic acid
Acta Crystallographica Section E Structure Reports Online, vol. 59, no. 1, pp. o97–o98, 2002 - The Medicinal Value of Tropical Rainforest Plants from Paluma, North Queensland, Australia
Pharmaceutical Biology (Formerly International Journal of Pharmacognosy), vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 67–78, 2001 - Isolation and Frontier Molecular Orbital Investigation of Bioactive Quinone-Methide Triterpenoids from the Bark of Salacia petenensis
Planta Medica, vol. 67, no. 1, pp. 65–69, 2001 - pH Switched sensitisation of europium(III) by a dansyl group
Inorganica Chimica Acta, vol. 317, no. 1-2, pp. 163–173, 2001 - Biologically Active Triterpenoids of Syncarpia glomulifera Bark Extract from Paluma, North Queensland, Australia
Planta Medica, vol. 66, no. 2, pp. 176–177, 2000 - Australian Journal of Chemistry, vol. 53, no. 9, p. 809, 2000
- Cytotoxic Components from the Bark of Stauranthus perforatus from Monteverde, Costa Rica
Planta Medica, vol. 66, no. 5, pp. 493–494, 2000 - A Phytochemical investigation of Alchornea latifolia
Fitoterapia, vol. 71, no. 2, pp. 195–198, 2000 - Journal of Inclusion Phenomena and Macrocyclic Chemistry, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 649–656, 1999
- Antibacterial Hydroxycinnamic Esters from Piper caninum from Paluma, North Queensland, Australia. The Crystal and Molecular Structure of (+)-Bornyl Coumarate
Planta Medica, vol. 65, no. 8, pp. 747–749, 1999 - Journal of Natural Products, vol. 62, no. 2, pp. 340–341, 1999
- Lupeol is the Cytotoxic Principle in the Leaf Extract of Dendropanax cf. querceti
Planta Medica, vol. 64, no. 4, pp. 370–372, 1998 - The Cytotoxic Activity of a Salacia Liana Species from Monteverde, Costa Rica, is Due to a High Concentration of Tingenone
Planta Medica, vol. 54, no. 6, pp. 583–583, 1998 - Synthesis and structural studies of hydrophilic mesocyclic trithioethers
Heteroatom Chemistry, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 123–128, 1998 - The synthesis and structure of bis(1,4,7-trithiacyclodecane)-ruthenium (II) perchlorate: the meso diastereoisomer
Inorganica Chimica Acta, vol. 244, no. 1, pp. 73–77, 1996 - Host Associations of Two Adventitious-Root-Climbing Vines in a North Queensland Tropical Rain Forest
Biotropica, vol. 28, no. 3, p. 356, 1996 - Host Preferences of Rhus Radicans (Anacardiaceae) in a Southern Deciduous Hardwood Forest
Ecology, vol. 77, no. 4, p. 1271, 1996 - Synthesis and complexation studies of mesocyclic and macrocyclic polythioethers XIV. Crown thioether complexes of palladium(II) and platinum(II)
Inorganica Chimica Acta, vol. 246, no. 1-2, pp. 31–40, 1996 - A Cytotoxic Diacetylene from Dendropanax arboreus
Planta Medica, vol. 61, no. 5, pp. 470–471, 1995 - Floral Essential Oil of Guettarda poasana Inhibits Yeast Growth
Biotropica, vol. 25, no. 4, p. 483, 1993 - Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 32, no. 20, pp. 4284–4290, 1993
- Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 31, no. 6, pp. 1116–1118, 1992
- Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 57, no. 10, pp. 2812–2818, 1992
- Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 56, no. 21, pp. 6127–6131, 1991
- Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 56, no. 26, pp. 7212–7218, 1991
- Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 30, no. 21, pp. 4053–4056, 1991
- Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 30, no. 19, pp. 3652–3656, 1991
- Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 353–355, 1991
- Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 29, no. 14, pp. 2672–2681, 1990
- Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 54, no. 7, pp. 1709–1713, 1989
- Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 28, no. 22, pp. 4128–4131, 1989
- Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 110, no. 21, pp. 7119–7127, 1988
- Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 109, no. 13, pp. 4058–4064, 1987
- Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 108, no. 21, pp. 6669–6675, 1986
- Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 51, no. 10, pp. 1815–1820, 1986
- Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 107, no. 7, pp. 2083–2091, 1985
- Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 106, no. 8, pp. 2353–2358, 1984
- Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 106, no. 1, pp. 106–111, 1984
- Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 106, no. 1, pp. 103–106, 1984
- Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 266–271, 1983
- Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 47, no. 14, pp. 2761–2764, 1982
- Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 45, no. 18, pp. 3640–3646, 1980