Faculty
Research Faculty
Expertise: Oscillating chemical reactions and pattern formation in reaction-diffusion systems. Mathematical modeling of biochemical kinetics and neural systems.
Expertise: Design of targeted protein degraders; antibiotic discovery; enzyme structure-function studies.
Expertise: Chemical glycobiology and organic chemistry.
Expertise: Self-assembly of chemical and biological systems. Transient interactions in solution by NMR. NMR of soluble proteins. Protein stability and folding by NMR and mutagenesis.
Expertise: Solid-state NMR of complex organic materials, including polymers, carbon materials, nanocomposites, and natural organic matter; NMR technique development; basic thermodynamics and chemical energy.
Expertise: Development of optical microscopy techniques to research fundamental nanocrystal properties in device relevant environments.
Expertise: Total synthesis of natural products. Chemoselective functionalization of peptides. Genome mining and natural product biosynthesis.
Expertise: New molecular materials and nanomaterials for the exploration in biomedicine (e.g., molecular drug delivery, cancer therapy, biomedical diagnostics, and biomimetics) and other fundamental problems in nanoscience and biological science.
Expertise: Non-precious metal catalysis directed towards organic synthesis. Translational synthetic chemistry. Discovery of new disease targets and therapeutic probes in human biology.
Teaching Faculty
Expertise: Oscillating chemical reactions and pattern formation in reaction-diffusion systems. Mathematical modeling of biochemical kinetics and neural systems.
Expertise: Organic chemistry, flow chemistry, and chemistry education.
Expertise: Inorganic chemistry, computational chemistry and chemistry education.
Expertise: Chemistry Education Research, Organic Synthesis & Reaction Development, and Enantioselective Catalysis.
Emeriti Faculty
Expertise: X-ray structure determination, coordination polymers, chemical, physical, and crystallographic studies of solid-state reactions
Expertise: X-ray crystallography of proteins.Studies of protein structure and function, enzyme mechanisms and protein-ligand and protein-protein interaction.
Expertise: Synthesis of natural products, new synthetic methods, free radical chemistry, Lewis acid induced reactions, ketene cycloadditions.
In Memoriam
Physico-chemical analysis of solvent effects on the structures and energies of reacting species.
The logic of organic chemistry, principally in regard to synthesis design and classification of reactions.
Flash photolysis studies of photochemistry and mechanisms of photobiological processes.
Isolation, characterization, synthesis and reactions of natural products.