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Robert A. Fish Memorial Prize for Jacobi and Myers Faculty Fellowship to Aprahamian

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Professor Peter Jacobi receives the 2018-2019 Robert A. Fish 1918 Memorial Prize

Elizabeth F. Smith, Dean of the Faculty, has awarded Professor Peter Jacobi the 2018-2019 Robert A. Fish 1918 Memorial Prize. This award is given to a newly retired faculty member in commemoration of a career of undergraduate teaching at Dartmouth.
Double Whammy! Chenfeng and Kat win Cottrell Scholar Award

Chenfeng and Kat are among 12 chemists who received the 2019 Cottrell Scholar Award from Research Corporation for Science Advancement.
Chenfeng Ke Receives Beckman Young Investigator Award

Chemist’s work on 3D printing materials for tissue replacement is funded for four years.
Prof. David Lemal Publishes Final Scientific Paper

Dave Lemal has had a long and very distinguished career as an organic chemist. He has now published his final scientific paper, co-authored by Professor Russell P. Hughes.
Chemistry department diversity and inclusion plan

To increase diversity in our faculty and staff, we recruit, retain, and support people from underrepresented groups, and we encourage an environment of collaboration, open communication, and trust, which welcomes diversity and respects differences of opinions.
Versatile molecular system extends the promise of light-activated switches

The Aprahamian group developed a new photochromic compound (JACS 2018, 140, 12323), whose fluorescence emission can be toggled ON and OFF in solution and the solid-state Link
Professor Katherine Mirica Wins Sloan Reserach Fellowship

Assistant Professor of Chemistry Katherine Mirica and Treb Allen, the Distinguished Associate Professor of Economics and Globalization, and have e
Army Research Office Young Investigator Award

Assistant Professor of Chemistry Katherine Mirica has been awarded the Army Research Office Young Investigator Award.
Chemistry Profesors Hailed for Innovative Work

Three professors who joined the faculty in the past three years were recently recognized by professional associations for significant work in their fields, two of those professors are from the Department of Chemistry.

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Driving a Liquid Crystal Phase Transition using a Photochromic Hydrazone

Mark J. Moran, Mitchell Magrini, David Walba, Ivan Aprahamian

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 13623–13627
Solution and Solid-State Emission Toggling of a Photochromic Hydrazone

Baihao Shao, Massimo Baroncini, Hai Qian, Alberto Credi, Ivan Aprahamian, et al.

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 12323–12327
Building Strain with Large Macrocycles and using it to Tune the Thermal Half-Lives of Hydrazone Photochromes

Quan Li, Hai Qian, Baihao Shao, Russell Profit Hughes, Ivan Aprahamian

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 11829–11835
Inversion of Configuration at the Phosphorus Nucleophile in the Diastereoselective and Enantioselective Synthesis of P‐Stereogen

Jake A Muldoon, Balázs R. Varga , Meaghan M. Deegan, Russell Profit Hughes, David S. Glueck, et al.

Angew. Chemie. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 5047-5051

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Robert A. Fish Memorial Prize for Jacobi and Myers Faculty Fellowship to Aprahamian

Professor Peter Jacobi receives the 2018-2019 Robert A. Fish 1918 Memorial Prize

Double Whammy! Chenfeng and Kat win Cottrell Scholar Award

Chenfeng Ke Receives Beckman Young Investigator Award

Prof. David Lemal Publishes Final Scientific Paper

Chemistry department diversity and inclusion plan

Versatile molecular system extends the promise of light-activated switches

Professor Katherine Mirica Wins Sloan Reserach Fellowship

Army Research Office Young Investigator Award

Chemistry Profesors Hailed for Innovative Work

Recent Publications

Driving a Liquid Crystal Phase Transition using a Photochromic Hydrazone

Solution and Solid-State Emission Toggling of a Photochromic Hydrazone

Building Strain with Large Macrocycles and using it to Tune the Thermal Half-Lives of Hydrazone Photochromes

Inversion of Configuration at the Phosphorus Nucleophile in the Diastereoselective and Enantioselective Synthesis of P‐Stereogen

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