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Beveridge, David L.

  

University Professor of the Sciences and Mathematics
860.685.2575
Hall-Atwater Laboratories 37
http://dbeveridge.blogs.wesleyan.edu/

dbeveridge@wesleyan.edu

Office Hours: Friday 130-3PM in HA37 If not there, Check my Lab HA66

Molecular Dynamics and Monte Carlo Computer Simulation; Structure, Dynamics and Solvation of Nucleic Acids and Proteins, Affinity and Specificity of Ligand Binding, Protein-Nucleic Acid Recognition.




Bolton, Philip H.

  

Professor of Chemistry
860.685.2668
Hall-Atwater Laboratories 29
http://www.wesleyan.edu/chem/faculty/bolton

pbolton@wesleyan.edu

Office Hours: By appointment.

Biochemistry: studies of duplex and quadruplex DNA; bending, flexibility and ligand binding of duplex and damaged DNAs.




Bruno, Joseph W.

  

Professor of Chemistry
860.685.2649
Hall-Atwater Laboratories 132
http://www.wesleyan.edu/chem/faculty/bruno

jbruno@wesleyan.edu

Office Hours: By appointment.

Inorganic Chemistry: Syntheses and uses of transition metal and lanthanide organometallics, inorganic photochemistry.




Calter, Michael A.

  

Associate Professor of Chemistry
860.685.2633
Hall-Atwater Laboratories 135
http://www.wesleyan.edu/chem/faculty/calter/index.html

mcalter@wesleyan.edu

Office Hours: By appointment.

Synthetic Organic Chemistry




Frisch, Michael J.

  

Visiting Scholar in Chemistry
860.685.2538

mfrisch@wesleyan.edu




Fry, Albert J.

  

E. B. Nye Professor of Chemistry
860.685.2622
Hall-Atwater Laboratories 138
http://www.wesleyan.edu/chem/faculty/fry

afry@wesleyan.edu

Office Hours: MTWTh PM by appointment.

Organic Chemistry: Synthetic and Mechanistic organic electrochemistry; metal-ion and metal complex mediated organic electrode reactions; electrochemical behavior of benzenoid and non-benzenoid aromatic hydrocarbons; electrochemically-driven enzymatic synthesis of amino acids.




Knee, Joseph L.

  

Chair, Chemistry
Professor of Chemistry
860.685.2727
Hall-Atwater Laboratories 024
http://www.wesleyan.edu/chem/faculty/knee

jknee@wesleyan.edu

Office Hours: By appointment.

Physical Chemistry: Research areas include molecular multiphoton ionization spectroscopy, picosecond and nanosecond studies of isolated molecule non-radiative decay processes and measurement of state-to-state unimolecular reaction rates.




Mantzaris, John

  

Visiting Professor of Chemistry
860.685.2699
Hall-Atwater Laboratories 54

jmantzaris@wesleyan.edu




Northrop, Brian Hale

  

Assistant Professor of Chemistry
860.685.3987
Hall-Atwater Laboratories 39

bnorthrop@wesleyan.edu

Office Hours: By appointment.

The design, synthesis, and analysis of new organic materials utilizing molecular recognition, self-assembly, and dynamic covalent chemistry.




Novick, Stewart E.

  

Professor of Chemistry
860.685.2679
Hall-Atwater Laboratories 34
http://www.wesleyan.edu/chem/faculty/novick

snovick@wesleyan.edu

Office Hours: Weds 2-3 pm, or by appointment

Chemical Physics: Molecular beam microwave spectroscopy; structure and dynamics of weakly bound complexes, conformations of floppy molecules; high resolution spectroscopy of free radicals.




Petersson, George A.

  

Fisk Professor of Natural Science
860.685.2508
http://www.wesleyan.edu/chem/faculty/petersson

gpetersson@wesleyan.edu

Office Hours: By appointment.

Physical Chemistry: Computational quantum mechanics emphasizing ab-initio electronic structure theory. Developing new methods for computational thermochemistry with applications to predictions of the absolute rates of chemical reactions.




Pickett, Herbert M.

  

Visiting Scholar in Chemistry

hpickett@wesleyan.edu




Pratt, Rex F.

  

Beach Professor of Chemistry
860.685.2629
Hall-Atwater Laboratories 24
http://www.wesleyan.edu/chem/faculty/pratt

rpratt@wesleyan.edu

Office Hours: Mon.,Tues,Weds, & Fri. afternoons.

Biochemistry: Enzyme mechanisms; bio-organic chemistry; beta-lactamases and beta-lactam antibiotics; enzyme inhibitor design.




Pringle, Wallace C.

  

Professor of Chemistry
860.685.2728
Hall-Atwater Laboratories 029
http://www.wesleyan.edu/chem/faculty/pringle

wpringle@wesleyan.edu

Office Hours: By appointment.

Physical Chemistry: Collision-induced far infrared and microwave spectroscopy; structure of small ring molecules; van der Waals complexes of four-membered ring molecules; water chemistry.




Russu, Irina M.

  

Professor of Chemistry
860.685.2428
Hall-Atwater Laboratories 203
http://www.wesleyan.edu/chem/faculty/russu

irussu@wesleyan.edu

Office Hours: Friday, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.

Structure and dynamics of nucleic acids; human hemoglobin: structure and function; NMR spectroscopy.




Taylor, Erika A.

  

Assistant Professor of Chemistry
860.685.2739
Hall-Atwater Laboratories 142
http://www.wesleyan.edu/chem/faculty/taylor/

eataylor@wesleyan.edu

Office Hours: By appointment

Biological Chemistry: Research focusing on enzyme mechanism determination, gene function assignment, transition-state and mechanism-based inhibitor design, and directed evolution of enzyme function




Westmoreland, T. David

  

Associate Professor of Chemistry
860.685.2743
Hall-Atwater Laboratories 14
http://www.wesleyan.edu/chem/faculty/westmoreland

westmoreland@wesleyan.edu

Office Hours: Tues 1:30-3:30 or by appt.

Inorganic Chemistry: Development of MRI contrast agents; NMR properties of aqueous solutions of paramagnetic ions; EPR spectroscopy of transition metal complexes; fundamental aspects of coupled group/multielectron transfer reactions in solution.




Wharton, Peter S.

  

Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus

pwharton@wesleyan.edu