Biography
Adam is a Technical Specialist within Marshall Gerstein’s Chemical Sciences Group. He assists with drafting provisional, non-provisional, continuation, and divisional patent applications, responding to office actions, and performing patent searches.
Representative Experience
- Organic synthesis at various scales
- Photocatalysis
- Peptide synthesis
- Organometallic catalysis
- Purification methods
Background and Credentials
Prior to joining Marshall Gerstein, Adam worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University in the lab of Prof. Karl Scheidt. In his postdoctoral research, Adam developed novel synthetic pathways involving N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC)/photocatalytic methods to synthesize medicinally important compounds.
Adam achieved his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Brigham Young University, where he worked as a graduate researcher and gained valuable experience leading projects focused on the development of bifunctional peptide-based catalysts. Adam also served as the department’s mass spectrometry lab manager, as well as several teaching and mentoring positions within the chemistry department. Adam holds a B.S. in Chemistry from Duke University, with a minor in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Chinese).
Education
- Brigham Young University (Ph.D.)
- Organic Chemistry
- Duke University (B.S.)
- Chemistry
Publications and Presentations
Wayment, A.X.; Scheidt, K.A.; Three-Component Synthesis of γ-Amino Esters with α-Quaternary Carbon Centers via NHC/Photoredox Dual Catalysis. Adv. Synth. Catal. 2025, 00, e70013.
Wayment, A.X.; Johnson, N.C.; Rodriguez Moreno, M.; Stewart, C.; Felix, B.M.; Lambert, I.; Traynor, S.A.; Nielson, P.M.; Lofgreen, G.Q.; Smith, S.L.; Newton, M.P.; Tretbar, J.W.; Nygaard, J.M.L.; Harrell, K.G.; Kinghorn, M.J.; Michaelis, D.J.; Squaric Esters as Peptide Stapling Reagents. Tett. Lett. 2024, 140, 155010.
Wayment, A.X.; Rodriguez Moreno, M.; Jones, C.J.; Smith, G.J.; Jarman, P.; Garcia Morin, N.J.; Coombs, M.J.; Parkman, J.A.; Barlow, C.D.; Allington Smith, S.; Burt, S.R.; Michaelis, D.J.; Optimizing the local Chemical Environment of a Bifunctional Helical Peptide Scaffold Enables Enhanced Enantioselectivity and Cooperative Catalysis. Org. Lett. 2022, 24 (16), 2983-2988.