Apr 27, 2011 - Claremont, Calif. -

Twenty-five Harvey Mudd College students presented the results of their research at the 241st American Chemical Society National Meeting in Anaheim, Calif. on March 27-31. Three students gave oral presentations: Brette Chapin ’11 spoke on "Asymmetric hydroamination of aminoallenes catalyzed by titanium and tantalum complexes of chiral sulfonamide-alcohols;" Kanny Wan ’11 spoke on "Concise, biomimetic syntheses of natural furanyl terpenoids;" and Michelle Hansen ’11 spoke on "Catalytic asymmetric hydroamination with tantalum complexes of chiral amino alcohols." 

In addition, Adam Brown ’13, Arthur Vasek ’11, Cassie George ’11, Daniel O'Neil ’11, Hayden Hatch ’12, Ha Seong Kim ’11, Heidi Linder ’11, Jessie Roy ’11, John Cvitkovic ’11, John Robinson ’12, Karen Heinselman ’13, Kristine Fong ’11, Laura Collins ’11, Laura Poindexter ’11, Malous Kossarian ’12, Mary Van Vleet ’12, Millie Fung ’11, Nagiko Hara ’12, Thomas Aldrich ’12, Thomas Avila ’11, Veerasak "Jeep" Srisuknimit ’12 and Zara Seibel ’11 presented posters of their work in fields as far-flung as characterization of green surfactants, drug discovery and new materials for solar energy conversion. Alumni coauthors included Caitlin Olmsted ’10, Mark Cyffka ’10, Chiara Giammanco ’10, Nancy Eisenmenger ’09 and Eric Nacsa ’10.

The American Chemical Society is the world's largest scientific society with over 165,000 members. It sponsors annual meetings twice a year in 33 sub-disciplines of chemistry and allied fields. Roughly 14,000 scientists attended the conference to make 9,000 presentations in hundreds of half-day oral sessions and nearly 100 poster sessions. Interdisciplinary poster sessions and social hours attracted 3,000 attendees.

Kanny Wan '11 presents "Concise, biomimetic syntheses of natural furanyl terpenoids."	Mary Van Vleet '12 presents.
Kyoung-Joo Jenny Park (Mt. San Antonio College), Professor Adam Johnson, Nagiko Hara '12, Brette Chapin '11	Thomas Aldrich '12
Cassie George '11