Organic
Organic chemistry is the cornerstone of many sub-disciplines including bioorganic, polymer, organic materials, organometallic, and physical organic chemistry. Cornell offers expertise in all major sub-disciplines of organic chemistry. A casual glance at the research programs of Cornell organic chemists reveals a particularly strong theme in understanding reaction mechanism. In addition, the organic chemists have strong affiliations with the chemical biologists as well as with members of other disciplines on campus including material science, chemical engineering, catalysis, and molecular and cell biology.
Faculty
| Abruña | Electrochemistry, molecular electronics, fuel cells, batteries, electrocatalysis. Group Website |
| Aye | Biocompatible synthetic methodologies in
deconvoluting redox regulation, manipulations of protein trafficking, protein
multimerization. Group Website |
| Coates | Polymer synthesis, stereoslective catalysis, mechanism of metal catalyzed reactions. Group Website |
| Collum | Physical organic chemistry, organolithium chemistry, kinetics and reaction mechanism Group Website |
| Dichtel | Noncovalent functionalization of carbon nanostructures, organic electronics, reticular chemistry, photovoltaic devices. Group Website |
| Ganem | Synthetic organic and medicinal/pharmaceutical chemistry. |
| Lee | Synthesis, structure and electronic structure of extended solids. Group Website |
| Lewis | Organic synthesis and catalysis. Group Website |
| Lin | Protein posttranslational modifications, ADP-ribosylation, dipthamide, C-mannosylation. Group Website |
| Meinwald | Biosynthesis of biologically active natural products, chemical ecology |
| Sogah | Polymer science, control of macromolecular stereochemistry, protein-based polymers, nanoscale materials. Group Website |
| Usher | Chemical evolution, sequence specific reactions of nucleid acids, phosphate esters |
| Wilcox | Physical and chemical properties of antiaromatic hydrocarbon, computational chemistry |