Recent Publication

A graphic of BesC Initiating C–C Cleavage through a Substrate-Triggered and Reactive Diferric-Peroxo Intermediate

Dec 20, 2021

Recent Publication

The article explains a reactivity of BesC as being the first example of a dinuclear-iron enzyme that utilizes a diferric-peroxo intermediate to capably cleave a C–H bond as part of its native function, thus circumventing the formation of a high-valent intermediate more commonly associated with substrate monooxygenations.

Oct 21, 2021

Chemistry Undergraduate Alumni Seminar

The Department of Chemistry DEI committee will be hosting an undergraduate alumni seminar featuring Kathy Nguyen and Drake Johnson, on Friday, October 29, 2021, at 3:00 pm in COX 214.

Oct 21, 2021

Chemistry DEI Colloquia Series

Raychelle Burks, Associate Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the American University, will be holding a seminar as part of the chemistry DEI colloquia seminar series, on Friday, November 12, 2021,…

The Front Cover shows the reaction network of Signal Amplification by Reversible Exchange (SABRE), elucidated by density functional theory (DFT).

Oct 20, 2021

Research Makes Front Cover

Article by T. Theis, V. Blum, and co-workers makes front cover of ChemPhysChem 19/2021.

Photo of molecules fluorescing strongly under UV light

Oct 20, 2021

Colorful fiasco ends up on C&EN website

Check out how Adrienne Faulkner, an undergraduate researcher in the Castellano group, turned the unfortunate incident into "some very pretty art."

Oct 13, 2021

Hellena (Hongxia) Bai, Poster Award Winner

Hellena (Hongxia) Bai won a poster award at the 3rd Imaging Mass Spectrometry Society (IMSS) Conference in October 2021.

Figure of the major sources and separation complexity of light hydrocarbons

Oct 13, 2021

Recent Publication

The separation of propadiene from propyne/propadiene mixtures remains challenging. Here, the authors report a sorbent screening protocol and show that metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) with open metal sites and cage-based molecule traps exhibit high performance for propyne/propadiene separation.

Hiring for an open rank position in chemistry for 2021

Sep 30, 2021

Join our Team!

The Department of Chemistry at NC State University, Raleigh, NC, seeks to fill a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor.