Chiles Wade Downey, professor of chemistry and Clarence E. Denoon Jr. Chair in Natural Sciences, along with students Katie Marchione, ‘25 and Karmen Smith, ‘25, published “One-pot enol silane formation-alkylation reactions of ketones promoted by trimethylsilyl trifluoromethanesulfonate: Direct access to β,β-diarylated ketones and related compounds” in Tetrahedron Letters.
Faculty Highlights
Jonathan Dattelbaum, professor of chemistry, published "Isolation and Whole Genome Sequence Analysis of Alcaligenes and Chromobacterium Strains with Antimicrobial Activity Against ESKAPE Pathogen Relatives" in Journal of Genomics along with Hannah Lwin, ’25.
Julie Pollock, associate professor of chemistry and Beth Zizzamia, Spatial Analysis Lab GIS operations manager, along with Hannah Parker '23, published "An Online Interactive Map of Human Metabolic Pathways and Associated Genetic Disorders as a Tool for the Biochemistry Classroom" in the Journal of Chemical Education.
Jeff Seeman, visiting research scholar, published “Eureka Moments Shared by Chemists. Hints at Enhancing One’s Own Creativity (and Even One’s Joy)” in ACS Central Science. The article was highlighted in Chemistry World, published by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Jonathan Dattelbaum, professor of chemistry, published "Expanding the BASIL CURE" in The Biophysicist.
Miles Johnson, associate professor of chemistry, and Kelling Donald, Clarence E. Denoon Jr. Chair in the Natural Sciences, along with students Jack Hoskins-Harris, ‘26, Kiiko Kotera, ‘19, Donovan Hoilette, ‘25, William Apostolou, ‘24, Vicky Osenga, ‘24, Jared Thomas, ’21, published “Synthesis, Structure, and Reactivity of Copper(I) Proazaphosphatrane Complexes” in Inorganic Chemistry.
Christopher Shugrue, assistant professor of chemistry, along with undergraduate students Andrew Watts, ‘25, Caitlyn Hughes, ‘26, Gavin Clausen, ‘25, Pamira Yanar, ‘24, Evan Wolff, ‘24, Phoebe Rubio, ‘25, and Natalie Stuart, ‘25, published “Electron-rich Anilines as cleavable linkers for peptides” in Bioorganic Chemistry.