Five Missouri State University chemistry students presented their research at the American Chemical Society Regional Meeting in St. Louis. The meeting took place Oct. 19-21.

Chad Hagan and Melissa Hayes, chemistry graduate students, presented “Raman Scattering of Deuterated DNA Nucleosides and Solid DNA Structure,” which they originated with  graduate student Sarah Nichols and Dr. Gary Meints, associate professor of chemistry.

Michael Hilton, undergraduate chemistry major, presented work he co-authored with Dr. Nikolay Gerasimchuk, associate professor of chemistry, and Henry Charlier. The project was entitled “Preparation, characterization and Human Carbonyl Reductase (HCBR) inhibition studies of 2,4-dichlorophenyl-cyanoxime, H(2,4-diCl-PhCO).”

Stephen Kramer, chemistry graduate student, presented “Assignment of Proton Resonances for Damaged DNA Using Two-dimensional Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.” This project was a joint effort with chemistry graduate student Brianna Medrano and Meints.

Lauren Verheyen, chemistry graduate student, presented “Synthesis of Some New Tridentate Ligands to Complex Silver(I)” which was aided by Dr. Eric Bosch, professor of chemistry.