Department of Chemistry

Miles Johnson, associate professor of chemistry, received a 2024 Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation.

Chiles Wade Downey, professor of chemistry and Clarence E. Denoon Jr. Chair in Natural Sciences,  along with undergraduate students Helen L. Xia, ’24, Eric Zhou, ’27, and Bianca Bicalho, ’22, published "Friedel-Crafts alkylations of indoles, furans, and thiophenes with arylmethyl acetates promoted by trimethylsilyl trifluoromethanesulfonate" in Synthetic Communications.

Kelling Donald, Clarence E. Denoon Jr. Chair in the Natural Sciences, along with undergraduate students Aamy A. Bakry, ’24, and Matthew G. Fanelli, ’09, and Department of Chemistry collaborators, Carol Parish, Floyd D. and Elisabeth S. Gottwald Professor of Chemistry, and Martel Zeldin, visiting research scholar, published “Dative Bonding in Quasimetallatranes Containing Group 15 Donors (Y = N, P, and As) and Group 14 Acceptors (M = Si, Ge, Sn, and Pb)” in Inorganic Chemistry.

Carol Parish, Floyd D. and Elisabeth S. Gottwald Professor of Chemistry, along with undergraduate students Aamy Bakry, ’24,  Joshua Pandian, ’23, Khanh Vu, ’23, Idil Cazimoglu, ’14, and John Mancini, ’11, and Department of Chemistry collaborator, Martel Zeldin, visiting research scholar, published “Conformational Analysis of Oligomeric Models of Siloxane, Silazane and Siloxazane Ladder Polymers” in Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Materials.