Chemistry and Biochemistry

Faculty and Professional Interests

Professor

Roger W. Anderson
Experiments and theory for low temperature, light-activated chemical vapor deposition, achromatic focusing of molecules with external electric fields, discrete orthoganol polynomials in molecular collision theory, fractal geometry structural measures for large molecules

Frank C. Andrews
Theoretical statistical mechanics and thermodynamics, science and human values, and general problem solving

Ilan Benjamin
Theoretical chemistry, molecular dynamics of chemical reactions in liquids and at interfaces

Claude F. Bernasconi
Kinetic studies of fast reactions, organic reaction mechanisms, acid-base catalysis, proton transfers, nucleophilic reactions, organometallic reactions, ab initio molecular orbital calculations

Roberto A. Bogomolni
Biophysical chemistry, photobiology, light energy conversion and signal transduction in biological systems

Joseph F. Bunnett, Emeritus

Phillip Crews
Marine natural products chemistry, bioorganic chemistry, organic structural analysis by NMR, natural products of marine macro- and microorganisms

Ólöf Einarsdóttir
Time-resolved spectroscopy, biophysics and bioenergetics, ligand binding and electron transfer dynamics of redox metalloproteins, heme-copper oxidases, proton translocation

Anthony L. Fink
Molecular basis of protein deposition diseases—for example, Parkinson’s disease and amyloidoses; development of drugs to prevent protein deposition, protein folding, and aggregation; biophysical studies of protein structure

David S. Kliger
Time-resolved laser spectroscopy, biophysics, studies of visual transduction, protein function, and protein folding

Joseph P. Konopelski
Synthetic organic chemistry; heterocyclic chemistry, bio-organic chemistry

Pradip K. Mascharak
Bioinorganic chemistry, design of antitumor drugs, modeling of active sites of metalloenzymes, design of catalysts for hydrocarbon oxidation, studies on intermediates in non-heme oxygenase chemistry, design of NO-donors for photodynamic therapy

Glenn L. Millhauser
Electron spin resonance; nuclear magnetic resonance, melanocortin receptor signaling, agouti proteins, prions, peptide synthesis

Thomas W. Schleich
Biomedical magnetic resonance spectroscopy, magnetic resonance imaging, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, biophysical chemistry

Bakthan Singaram
Organic synthesis, organoborane chemistry, heterocyclic chemistry, organometallic chemistry, asymmetric synthesis, biosensors, and natural products chemistry

Eugene Switkes
Quantum theory applied to problems in chemistry and biochemistry; visual information processing, spatial vision, color vision

Stanley M. Williamson, Emeritus

W. Todd Wipke, Emeritus

Associate Professor

Rebecca Braslau
Synthetic organic chemistry, new synthetic methodology using free radicals; nitroxides, acyl radicals, nitroxide mediated “living” polymerizations, designed polymers for applications in nanotechnology

Theodore Holman
Bioinorganic and biological chemistry

William G. Scott
Structure and function of RNA, proteins, and their complexes

Jin Z. Zhang
Design, synthesis, characterization, and application of nanomaterials, including semiconductor and metal nanoparticles, photodrugs, and conjugated polymers; femtosecond laser spectroscopy; and ultrafast dynamics in condensed phases and at interfaces

Assistant Professor

Shaowei Chen
Synthesis, characterization, and manipulation of novel nanoparticle materials; their long-range ordered assemblies and related nanoscale electron transfer

R. Scott Lokey
Organic chemistry; combinatorial synthesis, biotechnology, molecular cell biology

Scott Oliver
Materials chemistry, microporous materials, polymer templating, self-assembled monolayers

Lecturer

Daniel Palleros

Affiliate

David W. Deamer, Professor Emeritus (recalled)

Professor

Kenneth W. Bruland (Ocean Sciences)
Chemical oceanography, biogeochemistry of trace metals and radionuclides, aquatic chemistry, geochemistry

A. Russell Flegal (Environmental Toxicology)
Anthropogenic perturbations of biogeochemical cycles

Associate Professor

Donald R. Smith (Environmental Toxicology)
Organismal responses and therapeutic treatment of toxins

Assistant Professor

Carol Rohl (Biomolecular Engineering)
Protein design, protein structure and function prediction; protein-protein interactions