The Department of Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University is made up of internationally recognized faculty involved in all areas of contemporary chemical science, including many interdisciplinary areas that combine chemistry with biology, medicine, physics, and materials.

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The Bowen Group

The Bowen Group realized highly selective C-H bond activation in methane by single platinum atomic anions.

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Townsend Research Lab

Pulmonary disease caused by Mycobacteriodes abscessus has outpaced tuberculosis in the U.S., with cure rates below 50 percent. This sparked collaboration between the Townsend Research Lab and two School of Medicine research groups to design and synthesize a promising new antibiotic for treatment.

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The Goldberg Group

The Goldberg Group reports a series of sequentially formed peroxo(diiron), FeIV(O), and FeIII(OH) complexes from the reaction of a thiolate-ligated nonheme iron complex with O2. These complexes improve our understanding of the fundamental process of dioxygen activation by iron complexes and the related sulfur-ligated nonheme iron enzymes.

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The Greenberg Group

The Greenberg Group discovered that DNA methylation produces deleterious DNA-protein cross-links in the chromatin of cellular DNA, which could influence how biologists think about the cytotoxicity of drugs such as temozolomide (used to treat glioblastoma) and lead to improvements in how cells are damaged by DNA alkylation.

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The Fried Group

The Fried Group discovered that roughly one half of the proteins in E. coli are non-refoldable, meaning that once they are denatured, they cannot navigate back to their native states. This calls into question Anfinsen’s hypothesis that thermodynamics is the sole determinant of proteins’ native structures.

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The Thoi Group

The Thoi Group‘s new work reveals novel post-synthetic modification strategy leads to improved electrochemical performance in Li-S batteries.

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New delocalization pathways in conjugated materials

In a collaboration with chemists at Georgetown University and University of Oregon, the The Tovar Group engineered radial conjugation pathways into pi-conjugated systems that are traditionally made up of linear pathways.

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News & Announcements

March 2, 2021

Morgan Dasovich’s Article Published in JACS

Morgan Dasovich, a current graduate student in the Greenberg and Leung (BMB – SPH) groups, recently published a JACS Communication that describes the preparation and utilization of a chemical probe […]

January 8, 2021

Profs. Karlin and Klausen are 2021 ACS National Award Winners!

Each year the American Chemical Society honors recipients for their contributions of major significance to chemistry through their national awards. The national awards are broken down into several subsections. The […]

January 8, 2021

Vishal Yadav’s Article Published in JACS

Vishal Yadav, a current graduate student in the Goldberg Group, recently had an article published in JACS that discussed isolating a non-heme cis-FeIII(OH)(SR) complex which shows temperature-dependent sulfur versus hydroxyl radical […]

December 28, 2020

Prof. Fried Receives the Biopolymers in vivo Young Investigator Award!

Dr. Stephen Fried has been named the recipient of the Biopolymers in vivo Young Investigator Award. The award is granted by the Biopolymers in vivo subgroup of the Biophysical Society, […]

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Faculty Research Highlights
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The Bowen Group

Townsend Research Lab

The Goldberg Group

The Greenberg Group

The Fried Group

The Thoi Group

New delocalization pathways in conjugated materials

News & Announcements

Morgan Dasovich’s Article Published in JACS

Profs. Karlin and Klausen are 2021 ACS National Award Winners!

Vishal Yadav’s Article Published in JACS

Prof. Fried Receives the Biopolymers in vivo Young Investigator Award!

Faculty Research Highlights Explore the department’s most current findings

The Bowen Group

Townsend Research Lab

The Goldberg Group

The Greenberg Group

The Fried Group

The Thoi Group

New delocalization pathways in conjugated materials

Faculty Research Highlights
Explore the department’s most current findings