Faculty and Staff

Research Interests

Department Division: Organic

Edward Arnold, Professor

• Crystallographic studies of human viruses and viral proteins; molecular design

Jean Baum, Professor

• Structural studies of proteins by nuclear magnetic resonance techniques

Robert Boikess, Professor

• General Chemistry texts; multi-lecturer course development and coordination

Martha Greenblatt, Professor

• Solid-state chemistry; high Tc superconductors, low-dimensional solids, ionic conductors

Kai Hultzsch, Assistant Professor

• Synthesis of chiral organometallic complexes

Leslie Jimenez, Associate Professor

• Synthesis and characterization of analogues of antitumor antibiotics and coenzymes

Roger A. Jones, Professor and Chair

• Modified/labeled DNA fragments: synthesis and characterization

Spencer Knapp, Professor

• Total synthesis of natural products and the development of new synthetic methods

Joachim Kohn, Professor

• Biotechnology; synthesis of biopolymers; peptide chemistry

Jeehiun Katherine Lee, Associate Professor

• Biophysical organic and analytical chemistry; computational chemistry; mass spectrometry; study of chemical reactivity, recognition, and catalysis

Robert A. Moss, L. P. Hammett Professor

• Organic chemistry in aggregates; chemistry of reactive intermediates

Laurence S. Romsted, Professor

• Membrane mimetic/micellar/association colloid chemistry, chemical trapping via arenediazonium ions/reaction mechanisms

Heinz D. Roth, Professor

• Chemistry of reactive intermediates; nuclear spin polarization; electron spin resonance

Ronald R. Sauers, Professor Emeritus

• Organic photochemistry; molecular mechanics

Daniel Seidel, Assistant Professor

• Organic synthesis and methodology. Asymmetric catalysis using organocatalysts, transition metals and multi-component systems.

John Taylor, Professor

• Bioactive peptide design and synthesis; protein engineering, ligand-receptor interactions

Kathryn Uhrich, Professor

• Design and synthesis of novel, degradable polymeric materials

Ralf Warmuth,

Associate Professor

• Host-guest chemistry and peptide chemistry

Lawrence J. Williams, Assistant Professor, J.L.R. Morgan Chair of Synthetic Chemistry

• Natural product total synthesis, development of synthetic vaccines, design and synthesis of complex proteins

Xumu Zhang, Professor

• Synthetic organic, inorganic and organometallic chemistry, transition metal catalyzed asymmetric reactions for the synthesis of biologically active compounds, biomimetic chemistry, molecular recognition and material chemistry