Jerome Zoeller graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA, with a B.S. in Chemistry and began work at the Rohm & Haas Co. in applications and pro-cess development with acrylic polymers. Graduate study followed at the University of Texas, USA, with research concentration in physical organic chemistry. Upon completing the Ph.D. program, he went on for two years as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the use of organometallics in synthetic and structural studies. At the Southwest Foundation for Research and Education he developed preparative methods for cortisol analogs, and their use in affinity chromatography and primate brain research. In this decade he lectured at Trinity University, USA. A change in career occurred in which he studied Fuel Science at The Pennsylvania State University, USA. This specialty was pursued at Texas A&M University, USA, in the use of specialized oxidative transformations in studies of fossil fuel structure. Upon retirement he moved to a startup pharma company, Targacept Inc., for synthetic work on nicotinic acetylcholine esterase ligands of potential neurological activity. Upon moving to Texas, he was prompted to compile some of the synthetic sequences displayed in the twenty-first century literature, for this book.
