Department of Chemistry

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Dartmouth's chemistry department combines the personalized instruction and mentoring of a small college with the expertise of a research university. We welcome prospective undergraduate majors and Ph.D. candidates, as well as other students interested in chemistry, the central science.

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Chemistry Department Represents at Dartmouth Science Day

5/5/2026

Graduate students organized and ran the day with support from the Guarini School and a group of local and national sponsors. Read more here...
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Four Undergraduates Awarded for Exceptional Freshman and Sophomore Year Chemistry Achievements

2/18/2026

Each year, the chemistry department awards three undergraduate prizes: the Town Scientific Prize, the Leon Burr Richardson Prize, and the...
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Chemistry Graduate Student Brandon Balamut Seeks to Transform Display Technology with Light Switchable Cholesteric Liquid Crystals

1/5/2026

The CLC phase can be generated upon the addition of a chiral dopant into an achiral nematic LC host, providing a platform for designing and...

Recent Publications

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Reconstitution of autophagic-like membrane tethering reveals that Atg11 can bind and cluster vesicles on cargo mimetics

Andhare, D., Katzenell, S., Najera, S. I., Mauras, S. C., Bauer, K. M., Ragusa, M. J.

Electronic Textiles Based on Conductive Metal–Organic Frameworks as Scavengers and Sensors of Toxic Oxyanions from Water

Damacet, P., Chandra, P., Ambrogi, E.K., Noh, H., Asmus, E.L., Shehayeb, E.O., Barcaro, G., Monti, S., Mirica, K.A.

Elimination of Dichloromethane from the Introductory Organic Chemistry Teaching Laboratory

Wright, S.W. and Welder, C.O.

Synthesis of Indolyl-7-azanorbornanes by Decomposition of Tetrahydro-1,2,3-triazepines

Protich, Z., Touchette, S.J., Wu, J.