DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY & PHYSICS


Research

One of the strong aspects of our program at Wingate is the amount of research that the students are involved in.  This is an opportunity for a student to get immersed into a research project and gain experience that can't be obtained any other way.  Each of the three professors is currently involved in projects that involve students.  Some current projects include:

  • Experiment design
  • Electrochemistry
  • Green chemistry
  • Superconductivity
  • Magnetism

Research (Student names are in bold)

  • NMR Analysis of Titanium Salicylate and Related Compounds Brenton D. Smith, Rosemary A Huntley, James W. Hall, Christopher E. Dahm and John R. Wason, poster presented at the 59th Southeast Regional Meeting of the ACS, Greenville SC, October 2007

  • NMR analysis of Zirconium Salicylate ad Related Compounds Stacy N. Knight, Van Mai, James W. Hall, Christopher E. Dahm, and John R. Wasson, poster presented at the 59th Southeast Regional Meeting of the ACS, Greenville SC, October 2007

     

  • Novel Alkanedithiolate Compunds for Monolayer Studies Matthew T. Zimmerman, Christopher E. Dahm, J. Michael Gibson, and Stephen Creager, poster presented at the 58th Southeast Regional Meeting of the ACS, Augusta GA, November 2006

  • A Microwave Enhanced and Green Approach to Phenol Synthesized from Shikimic Acid Shea Rogers and Chris Dahm poster presented at the 4th International Microwaves in Chemistry Conference, Orlando, Florida March 2006

  • General Chemistry Hess’s Law Experiment Chris Dahm, Deborah Sunderland, James Hall presented at the 231st National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Atlanta, Georgia March 2006

     

  • Some Simple Undergraduate laboratory Procedures Using NMR Internal Standards.  James Gibson and Chris Dahm presented at the 56th Southeast Regional Meeting of the ACS, Raleigh North Carolina, November 2004 

     

  • A Green Investigation of the Reactions of Cyclic Hydroxy Acids Chris Dahm and Erin Holmes poster presented at the 55th Southeast Regional Meeting of the ACS, Atlanta Georgia, November 2003

     

  • Microwave Assisted Decarboxylations of Dihydroxybenzoic Acids in Near Supercritical Water  Chris Dahm, Erin Holmes, Anthony Tofanelli, James Gibson presented at the 55th Southeast Regional Meeting of the ACS, Atlanta Georgia, November 2003

 

  • T. A. Bryson J. M. Gibson, H Voegtle,  W. M. Marley, J. Birch, B. Harmon Green Heterocycle Synthesis Facilitated via Near Critical Water,  54th  Southeast Regional Meeting of the ACS Charleston, South Carolina, November 2002
     
  • J. R. Wasson and J. W. Hall, "Electronegativity A  Distance Definition" 54th  Southeast Regional Meeting of the ACS, Charleston, South Carolina, November 2002
     
  • J. R. Wasson and J. W. Hall, "Electronegativity - The Distance Factor" 54th  Southeast Regional Meeting of the ACS, Charleston, South Carolina, November 2002
     
  • W. M. Marley, C. E. Dahm, "Microwave Assisted Near-Supercritical Aqueous Transformations of Alkynes and Shikimic Acid", poster 54th  Southeast Regional Meeting of the ACS, Charleston, South Carolina, November 2002
     
  • C. E. Dahm, W. M. Marley, J. W Hall, and J. M. Gibson "Microwave Assited Dehydration/Decarboxylation of Shikimic Acid under Green Condtions", 54th  Southeast Regional Meeting of the ACS Charleston, South Carolina, November 2002
     
  • W. M. Marley, C. E. Dahm, "Sonocation of Alkynes in Water", poster 53rd South Eastern Regional Meeting of the ACS, Savanah, South Carolina, September 2001
     
  • C. E. Dahm, W. M. Marley, and J. W. Hall, "A Comparison of the Reudction of Alkynes in Water by Sonocation and Microwave Techniques" 53rd South Eastern Regional Meeting of the ACS, Savanah, South Carolina, September 2001
     
  • J. M. Gibson, T. A.  Bryson "A Green Method for the Debenzylation of Hindered Tertiary Amines" 53rd South Eastern Regional Meeting of the ACS, Savanah, South Carolina, September 2001
     
  • T. A Bryson, J. M. Gibson, J. M. Jennings, P. S. Thomas, "Organic Functional Group Transformations in Near Critical Water" 53rd South Eastern Regional Meeting of the ACS, Savanah, South Carolina, September 2001
     
  • "Benzene Free SYnthesis of Phenol" J. M. Gibson, P. S. Thomas, J. D. Thomas, J. L. Barker, S. S. Chandran, M. K. Harrup, K. M. Draths, J. W. Frost Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2001 40 1945.
     
  • "A Green and Selective Reduction of Aldehydes", T. A. Bryson, J. M. Jennings. J. M. Gibson, Tetrahedron Letters, 41 3523 (2000)
     
  • "Catalytic Reductions in Subcritical Water" J. M. Jennings, T. A. Bryson, J. M. Gibson, Green Chemistry, April 2000
     
  • J. M. Gibson, J. D. Thomas, P. S. Thomas, J. M. Jennings, T. A. Bryson "A Green Cleavage of Benzylic C-O and C-N Bonds" 52nd South Eastern Regional Meeting of the ACS, New Orleans, Louisiana December 2000
     
  • T. A Bryson, J. M. Jennings, J. M. Gibson, "Organic Group Transformations in Near Critial Water" 52nd South Eastern Regional Meeting of the ACS, New Orleans, Louisiana December 2000
     
  • J. W. Hall, J. M. Gibson, C. E. Dahm, F. Ossmann, J. S. Broome, A. D. Nicholson, "Experimental Methods Facilitating Green Synthesis", 52nd South Eastern Regional Meeting of the ACS, New Orleans, Louisiana December 2000

CONTACT:
Dr. James Hall

Professor of Chemistry & Physics and Department Chair
jhall@wingate.edu
704-233-8325