Dr. Som earned my bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of Florida, where she conducted research at the USDA Center for Medical, Agricultural, and Veterinary Entomology (USDA-ARS CMAVE). After graduation, she worked at SiVance before pursuing graduate studies at the University of Central Florida, where she earned her Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry. She is also a recipient of the Gates Millennium Scholarship and an Asian & Pacific Islander American (APIA) Scholarship.

Publications:

1. Som, S., Nam, J., Farah, O. A., Borrego-Castaneda, L., Shetu, S. A., Flannagan, M. G., Lee, J., Choi, J., Katsoulis, D., Vanchura, B., Domin, M., Shaw, T. E., Kozimor, S. A., Gray, D. L., Cheong, H-Y. P., Lee, K. L. One-Step Synthesis of Aryl Monomers for Silicones Enabled by Mechanistic Study of Intermolecular Dehydrogenative C–H Silylations. ACS Catal. 2025, 15, 15444–15458.

2. Swann, N., Tang, K., Nam, J., Lee, J., Domin, M., Shaw, T. E., Kozimor, S. A., Som, S., Lee, K. L. Intermolecular C–H Silylations of Arenes and Heteroarenes with Mono-, Bis-, and Tris(trimethylsiloxy)hydrosilanes: Control of Silane Redistribution under Operationally Diverse Approaches. Chem. Sci. 2024, 15, 11912–11918.

3. Som, S., Choi, J., Katsoulis, D., Lee, K. L., A Direct Method to Access Various Functional Arylalkoxysilanes by Rh-catalysed Intermolecular C–H Silylation of Alkoxysilanes. Chem. Sci. 2022, 13, 10759–10764.

4. Som, S., Willett, D. S., Alborn, H. T., Dynamics of belowground volatile diffusion and degradation. Rhizosphere, 2017, 4, 70–74.

Areas of research:

Catalyst design, methodology development, and organic chemistry.