Timothy J. Deming

Professor. Polymer and materials synthesis. Biomedical applications of polypeptide materials. Emphasis on application of chemical principles toward these ends as well as the use of biological precedents and strategies for the design of new materials.

Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay

Professor. Solid state organic chemistry. Structure-reactivity correlations; organic photochemistry and solvent-free synthesis; chemical dynamics and crystalline molecular machines; X-ray diffraction and solid state NMR; crystal engineering and organic material science.

Neil Garg

Assistant Professor Synthetic strategies and methods, while pursuing the total synthesis of bioactive molecules. Areas of interest include asymmetric catalysis, organometallic transformations, heterocycle synthesis, umpolung reactions, and cascade processes.

Robin L. Garrell

Professor. Laser spectroscopy of surfaces, interfaces, and thin films; experimental and theoretical studies of molecule-metal interactions; development of new techniques for probing adlayer microstructure and its effects on macroscopic optical andmechanical properties such as adhesion; design of novel biomolecular and polymeric thin films.

Kendall N. Houk

Professor. Theoretical and experimental organic chemistry; design and experimental investigation of stereoselective organic reactions and catalysts; explorations of the origins of biological catalysis by enzymes and antibodies; mechanisms of pericyclic and photochemical reactions; molecular recognition and gating in host-guest complexes; chemistry and biology of NO.

Michael E. Jung

Professor. Organic synthesis, particularly of biologically active natural products; development of new synthetic methods; study of electrocyclic reactions and their use in organic synthesis; design, synthesis and testing of inhibitors of enzymatic reactions; bioorganic chemistry; medicinal chemistry.

Ohyun Kwon

Assistant Professor. Organic chemistry, combinatorial chemistry, chemical biology; Development of new methodologies for organic transformations, target oriented synthesis and diversity oriented synthesis of natural products and natural product-like molecules, forward and reverse chemical genetics employing organic molecules.

Heather D. Maynard

Assistant Professor. Polymer and biomaterials research with applications in human biology and nanoscience: polymer bioconjugates; block copolymers; functional polymers; smart polymers; materials for protein detection; hydrogels; protein nanoarrays.

Craig A. Merlic

Associate Professor. Organic chemistry; applications of transition metal chemistry to organic synthesis; new synthetic methodology; synthesis of biologically active natural and unnatural products; organic and organometallic radical reactions; mechanistic andsynthetic organometallic chemistry.

Yves F. Rubin

Professor. Fullerene chemistry: total synthesis and study of buckminsterfullerene C60, its endohedral metal complexes, and higher fullerenes (C84, etc.). Synthesis of bowl-shaped aromatic hydrocarbons. Addition chemistry of C60 using Diels-Alder, carbene, and other cycloaddition reactions. Organic ferromagnets : synthesis of two- and three-dimensional high spin networks based on stable organic radicals and manganese (II) complexes. Enediyne antitumor drugs: design and synthesis of novel strained enediynes and study of their Bergman reactivity and DNA cleavage properties.

J. Fraser Stoddart

Professor. Nanoscience as it relates to both supramolecular and macromolecular chemistry: Carbohydrate-containing dendrimers; catenanes, rotaxanes, and knots; concept transfer between the life sciences and materials science: interlocked and intertwined structures and superstructures; molecular machines; molecule shuttles, molecular switches; polycationic dendrimers; nature of the mechanical bond; nature of the noncovalent bond; self-assembly processes under both kinetic and thermodynamic control; synthetic cyclic oligosaccharides; template-directed synthesis.

updated 2/20/07