Three faculty and 10 undergraduate research students
from chemistry attended or gave presentations at NERM '99, the Northeast
Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society.
James C. Adrian Jr., assistant professor, presented on
“Titanium Enolate Addition to Aldimines: A Case for Lewis Acid
Activation.” His co-author was Jennifer E. Chick '99.
Julia L. Barkin '00, presented on her work with Lamyaa
Hassib '98, under Adrian: “Beta-Amino Esters Via the Reformatsky
Reaction: Restraining Effects of the Ortho-Methoxyphenyl
Substituent.”
Mary Carroll, associate professor, presented a talk
titled “Investigation of On-line Determination of Ethanol with
Diode-laser-based Detection.” Manisha Tinani '96 was co-author.
Michael Hagerman, assistant professor, gave a talk on
“Controlling the Inner Architecture of Polymer-Clay
Nanocomposites” in the Nanoparticles symposium.
Also, Chemistry Club officers Jason P. Shames '01, and
Julia L. Barkin '00 presented an invited talk on the “Activities
and Perspectives of the Union College Chemistry Club.” Club advisors
Carroll and Hagerman were co-authors.