Organic Chemistry Faculty
Core Faculty
These faculty have primary appointments in the Department of Chemistry.
Dinnocenzo, Joseph P.
- Professor of Chemistry
- jpd@chem.rochester.edu | (585) 275-8351
- 463 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Mechanistic and physical organic chemistry
Frontier, Alison J.
she/her/hers
- Professor of Chemistry
- frontier@chem.rochester.edu | (585) 275-2568
- 414 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Synthetic organic chemistry; synthesis of bioactive natural products; pericyclic reactions; asymmetric catalysis; cationic cascades
Jiang, Yishu
she/her/hers
- Incoming Assistant Professor in July 2024
- yishujiang@berkeley.edu
- 574A Tan Hall, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Interests: Biophysical chemistry; Catalysis; Ultrafast spectroscopy and cell imaging
Kennedy, C. Rose
she/her/hers
- Assistant Professor of Chemistry
- c.r.kennedy@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8778
- 459 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Catalysis and Synthetic Methods; Organometallic Chemistry; Mechanistic and Physical Organic Chemistry
Nilsson, Bradley L.
he/him/his
- Professor of Chemistry
- Director, Materials Science Program
- nilsson@chem.rochester.edu | (585) 276-3053
- 417 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Peptide self-assembly; amyloid peptides; amyloid-inspired materials; bioorganic chemistry; supramolecular chemistry
Paradine, Shauna
she/her | they/them
- Assistant Professor of Chemistry
- sparadin@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 276-5822
- 453 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Organic Chemistry and Organometallic Chemistry
Partridge, Benjamin E.
he/him/his
- Assistant Professor of Chemistry
- benjamin.partridge@rochester.edu | (585) 273-1404
- 419 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Supramolecular chemistry; Bioinspired materials; Self-assembly in water; Protein engineering
Research Professors
Research professors do not accept graduate students, but have active research programs within the department.
Ebetino, Frank Hal
- Professor of Chemistry, Research
- febetino@ur.rochester.edu | (513) 532-4084
Interests: Medicinal chemistry and drug design, including bisphosphonates and bone targeted drugs for arthritis and cancer, receptor agonists/antagonists, and epigenetic enzyme inhibitors
Farid, Samir
- Professor of Chemistry, Research
- farid@chem.rochester.edu | (585) 275-8398
- 220E Hutchison Hall
Interests: Photo-induced Electron Transfer Reactions
Adjunct Faculty
Adjunct faculty do not accept new graduate students and now have appointments elsewhere, although some of their students are still based at the University of Rochester.
Fasan, Rudi
he/him/his
- Andrew S. Kende Professor in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
Professor of Chemistry
- fasan@chem.rochester.edu | (585) 273-3504
- 418 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Organic chemistry and chemoenzymatic synthesis; asymmetric biocatalysis; protein engineering; bioorganic chemistry and chemical biology