NMSU - Department of Chemisty and Biochemistry

DENNIS LEE JOHNSON

College Associate Professor

Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles 1981
B.S. New Mexico State University 1976

Dr. Johnson enjoys teaching Organic Chemistry as well as General and Inorganic Chemistry. He is currently overseeing the CHEM 314 Organic Chemistry II Lecture and Labs.

Patents:
Radiolabeled Technetium Chelates for Use in Renal Function Determinations U. S. Patent No. 4,980,147
Also patented in Canada, Japan, Europe, and South Africa.

PUBLICATIONS:

Inversion of the Direction of Stereoinduction in the Coupling of Chiral g,d-Unsaturated Fischer Carbene Complexes with o-Ethynylbenzaldehyde.
Ghorai, Binay K.; Menon, Suneetha; Johnson, Dennis Lee; Herndon, James W.
Organic Letters (2002), 4(13), 2121-2124.
Tissue distribution properties of technetium-99m-diamide-dimercaptide complexes and potential use as renal radiopharmaceuticals.
Kasina, Sudhakar; Fritzberg, Alan R.; Johnson, Dennis L.; Eshima, Dennis.
J. Med. Chem. (1986), 29(10), 1933-40.
Synthesis and biological evaluation of technetium-99m MAG3 as a hippuran replacement.
Fritzberg, Alan R.; Kasina, Sudhakar; Eshima, Dennis; Johnson, Dennis L
J. Nucl. Med. (1986), 27(1), 111-16.
Measurement of adenosine triphosphate and 2,3-diphosphoglycerate in stored blood with phosphorus-31 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
Ambruso, Daniel R.; Hawkins, Bruce; Johnson, Dennis L.; Fritzberg, Alan R.; Klingensmith, William C., III; McCabe Edward R. B. Biochem. Med. Metab. Biol. (1986), 35(3), 376-83.