Welcome to NSF REU students Areon Smith (Jackson State University) and Erika Stopler (SUNY Oneonta), who will be joining us for the summer!
Group News
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Areon Smith and Erika Stopler join group
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NSF grant renewed
The NSF is continuing to fund our work on ortho-phenylene foldamers. Many thanks! Support from the NSF has been the foundation of our research.
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Aditya Singh joins group
Welcome Aditya!
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New paper in Acc. Chem. Res.
Scott’s published a review on the folding of ortho-phenylenes (focused mostly on our own work).
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New paper in J. Phys. Chem. B
Our latest paper is out in J. Phys. Chem. B! This work, a collaboration with the Kumar group (Kent State, Physics), describes new sanidic liquid crystal phases for a series of dibenzonaphthacenes we prepared.
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Alexis Knight joins group
Welcome to Alexis Knight, who has joined the group as an undergraduate researcher.
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Rathiesh Pandian joins group
Welcome Rathiesh!
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New paper in J. Chem. Educ.
Our latest paper is out in J. Chem. Educ.! A collaboration with the Bretz group, it describes a sophomore organic lab activity that uses cholesteric liquid crystals to macroscopically distinguish enantiomers. It’s a lot of fun and doesn’t need any specialized equipment.