Department of Chemistry

Michael C. Leopold, professor and Floyd D. and Elisabeth S. Gottwald Chair of chemistry, along with undergraduate students Joyce Stern, '26, Holly Wemple, '25, Charlie Sheppard, '26 and Arielle Vinnikov, '27, published "Fouling-Resistant Voltammetric Xylazine Sensors for Detection of the Street Drug ‘Tranq’” in the journal Toxics. Their research is leading toward the development of a device to help protect first responders during the fentanyl opioid crisis.

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.