Degree Information:

B.A., Knox College, Galesburg Illinois; Summa Cum Laude, 1985
Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado; Inorganic Chemistry; 1989

Teaches:

Environmental Chemistry (Chem 1)
The Science of War (Chem 7)
Instrumental Analysis I (Chem 111)

Research:

Coordinated and Linked Porphyrin Dimers, Trimers and Polymers

Active Grants:

"Community of Science Scholars Initiative", Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 2001-2004, $800,000.

Recent Publications:

A.M. Shachter, "Integrating Ethics in Science into a Summer Undergraduate Research Program", J. Chem. Ed., 80, 507-512 (2003).

B. B. Smith, D. E. Hill, T. A. Cropp, R. D. Walsh, D. Cartrette, S. Hipps, A. M. Shachter, W. T. Pennington, W. R. Kwochka, "Synthesis of [n]- and [n.n]Cyclophanes by Using Suzuki-Miyaura Coupling", J. Org. Chem. , 67, 5333-5337 (2002).

Recent Presentations:

Porphyrin Crown-Ether Compounds; N. Parker , P. Sarna, and A. Shachter; American Chemical Society National Meeting, San Francisco, April 2000 .

Porphyrin-DNA Binding I: Porphyrin Substituent Effects; V. Sasikumar, A. Cullen, A. Kasper, and A. Shachter, National American Chemical Society National Meeting, San Francisco, April 2000.

Porphyrin-DNA Binding II: Ionic Strength and Isomeric Effects; A. Cullen, V. Sasikumar, A. Kasper, and A. Shachter; National American Chemical Society National Meeting, San Francisco, April 2000.