September 17, 1999: Volume 47, Number 2

Chemists Present at NERM '99

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.

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