Dr. Alex Jonathan Roche  May 08 updated
Current Position: Associate Professor of Chemistry, Rutgers (July 2006 - Present)
Department of Chemistry, 315 Penn St, Camden, New Jersey. 08102.   Tel: (856) 225-6166.
Email: alroche@crab.rutgers.edu. D.O.B. 22nd Sep. 1970.
Nationality: British, with USA Green Card
http://crab.rutgers.edu/~alroche/
Education
July 2006 - Present Associate Professor
Jan 2000 to June 2006 Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Rutgers Camden, NJ
June 1999To December 1999 Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Rutgers, The State University, Camden Campus.
January 1996To December 1998 Post-Doctoral research position at the University of Florida, U.S.A., under the supervision of Prof. W.R. Dolbier, Jr.
October 1995 To December 1995 3 month collaboration with Prof. Neil Bartlett (visiting University of Durham, U.K., whilst on sabbatical from Berkeley University, U.S.A.).
September 1992To September 1995 Ph.D. in Organofluorine Chemistry, under the supervision of Prof. R.D. Chambers, University of Durham, U.K. Thesis entitled "Chemistry of 2H-Heptafluorobut-2-ene". 1989 to 1992 B.Sc. (Hons). in Chemistry (Class 1) from the University of Durham, U.K.
Research Interest
Design, Synthesis and Characterization of a wide variety of fluorinated organic systems, especially fluorinated analogues of well-studied but unusual hydrocarbon structures.
Other Interests
Most sports but especially soccer. (e.g. play for Moorestown Field Club in South Jersey Men’s League; Relton Terrace semi-professional team in Durham and Newcastle City league; passed 9th level Soccer referee entry exam); helped arrange and play on Intramural soccer team at Rutgers, Camden consisting of Biology / Chemistry students, faculty and Deans.
Teaching Awards
Recipient of the Provost’s Teaching Excellence Award, May 2002. The award is “in recognition for his interest and innovations in teaching as demonstrated by his reputation with students and peers”.
Nominated to "Who's Who Among America's Teachers" 2002/03 and 2003/04.
Recipient of "Outstanding Professor" Award from graduating science majors of class 2008, presented at Rutgers Gala May 17th 2008.
Recent Grant Activity 
National Science Foundation (IOS-0724962) "Thyroid Hormone Physiology in Adult Rat Brain" PI = JV. Martin and co-PI =Alex J. Roche $415,369; 8/07 - 7/10
National Science Foundation (CHE-0541663) "Acquisition of a High Performance Liquid Chromatography - Mass Spectrometry (HPLC - MS) System"   $228,703 2/06 - 1/09.
National Science Foundation (CHE-0116145) “Acquisition of a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance System” $240,980 9/01 – 8/04.
Dean's Undergraduate Research Award "CF3-PPV" $1,000. 2005/06
Rutgers Undergrad Fellowship Program “Fluorinated Polymers for New Display Technologies”.  $1,500. 2002/03
Research Council "Novel Fluorinated Polymers" $1,200. 2002
Research Council “NMR Characterization of Novel Fluorinated Cyclophanes”, $1,200, 2000.
 
       
Recent Consultation Activity
FatEarth Inc., concerned with the environmental fate of certain fluorocarbons used in adhesives, printer ink, etc.
Current Research Group 5 Undergraduate Students and 3 Masters Students.

Publication List
•Alex J. Roche, Alexander A. Marchione, Sheryl A. Rabinowitz, Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry, 2005, 43, 1016-1022.
•Alex J. Roche, Belgin Canturk, Journal of Fluorine Chemistry (2005), 126(4), 483-490.
•Alex J. Roche, Belgin Canturk, Organic &. Biomolecular Chemistry, 2005, 3, 515 - 519.
•Alex J. Roche, Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry. 2004, 42, 944-949.
•Alex J. Roche, Anne D. Loyle and Jean-Pierre Pinto,Polymer Prep. (American Chemical Society, Division of Polymer Chemistry) 2004, 45(2), 108-109.
•Alex J. Roche, Anne D. Loyle and Jean-Pierre Pinto, J. Fluorine Chem. 125 (2004) 1473-1480.
All the co-authors on the above papers are either undergraduate or Masters students from Rutgers, Camden.
•W. R. Dolbier, Jr., J-X. Duan and A. J. Roche, USP 6,392,097, 2002.
•Alex J. Roche, Jian-Xin Duan, William R. Dolbier, Jr., and Khalil. A. Abboud, Journal of Organic Chemistry, 66, 2001, 7055-7058.
•W. R. Dolbier, Jr., J-X Duan and A. J. Roche, Organic Letters, 2, (13), 2000, 1867-1869.
•Alex J. Roche and William R. Dolbier, Jr., Journal of Organic Chemistry, 65, 2000, 5282-5290.
•Alex J. Roche and William R. Dolbier, Jr., Journal of Organic Chemistry, 64, 1999, 9137-9143.
•A.V. Kachur, W.R. Dolbier Jr., S.M. Evans, C.Y. Shiue, G.G. Shiue, K.A. Skov, I.R. Baird, B.R. James, A.R. Li, A. Roche and C.J. Koch, Applied Radiation and Isotopes, 51, (6), 1999, 643-650.
•W. R. Dolbier, Jr., J-X. Duan and A. J. Roche, USP 5,841,005, 1998.
•Neil Bartlett, Richard. D Chambers, Alex J. Roche, Robert C. H. Spink, Lisa Chacon and J. Marc Whalen, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1996, 1049-1050.
•Richard D. Chambers, Alex J. Roche and Michael H. Rock, Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Trans. 1, 1996, 1095-1100.
•Richard D. Chambers and Alex J. Roche, Journal of Fluorine Chemistry, 79, 1996, 139-143.
•Richard D. Chambers and Alex J. Roche, Journal of Fluorine Chemistry, 79, 1996, 121-124.
•Richard D. Chambers, Alex J. Roche and Julian F.S. Vaughan, Canadian Journal of Chemistry, 74, 1996, 1925-1929.
•Richard D. Chambers, Steven J. Mullins, Alex J. Roche and Julian F. S. Vaughan, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1995, 841-842.
•R. D. Chambers, J. F. S. Vaughan, S. J. Mullins, T. Nakamura and A. J. Roche, Journal of Fluorine Chemistry, 72, 1995, 231-233.
•Richard D. Chambers, Alex J. Roche, Andrei S. Batsanov and Judith A. K. Howard, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1994, 2055-2056.