Joel Karty, assistant professor in the chemistry department, was awarded $30,148 from Research Corporation for his continuing work on “Resonance and Inductive/Field Effects in Fundamental Chemical Systems.” In the chemical systems being studied, resonance effects and field/inductive effects contribute simultaneously. Karty’s work aims to employ computational methods to quantify the respective contributions by the two effects. This award will primarily be used to fund summer research students at Elon and to purchase new computers and software.
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