Assistant professor of chemistry Dr. Heidi Dahlmann has recently presented her undergraduate research team’s results at a national meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS).
For the past 6 years, Dr. Dahlmann has been guiding undergraduate researchers through designing, synthesizing, and testing the activity of new compounds in the lab. In particular, she and her students focus on designing catalyst compounds that speed up a chemical reaction called carbonyl-olefin metathesis, a reaction that is currently being developed for application in the synthesis of medicines, organic electronics, and flavor/fragrance compounds.
Dr. Dahlmann presented her research groups’ latest results in a poster, “Organocatalyzed carbonyl-olefin metathesis: exploring catalyst reactivity and substrate scope,” at the ACS Fall 2022 Meeting held in Chicago from August 21-25, 2022. The ACS Fall 2022 Meeting, one of the two annual national meetings of the American Chemical Society, attracted roughly 9,000 in-person attendees including Dr. Dahlmann and fellow SMUMN chemistry faculty member Dr. Jaime Mueller. Dr. Dahlmann’s poster was selected not only for the Organic Chemistry division poster session but also for the Sci-Mix poster session, a distinguished interdisciplinary session featuring selections considered to be the best of what each division had to offer.
