Chemistry Department

David Hales, Ph.D.

Hales, David

David Hales, Ph.D.

Thomas E. Goodwin Odyssey Professor of Chemistry

He/Him/His hales@hendrix.edu Office: Charles D. Morgan Center - Acxiom Hall 204 Research Lab: Charles D. Morgan Center - Reynolds Hall 214 (501) 450-1203 (501) 450-3829

Academic Background

  • B.A., Pomona College, 1984
  • Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1990
  • Postdoctoral Research, UCLA, 1990-1992

Recent publications

  • “Laser-induced denaturation of cytochrome c in electrospray droplets”

      S. A. Raab, H. Pan, D. W. Woodall, D. A. Hales, E. M. Sharon, and D. E. Clemmer

      Analytical Chemistry 97, 9151-9158 (2025).

    https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.4c03388

  •  “The influence of N terminus amino acid on peptide cleavage in solution through diketopiperazine formation”

      Z. Zhang, D. A. Hales and D. E. Clemmer

      Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry 33, 1368–1376 (2022).

    https://doi.org/10.1021/jasms.2c00037

  • “Evidence for 41 Unique Solution Structures for Chymotrypsin Inhibitor 2: A Thermodynamic Perspective Derived from vT-ESI-IMS-MS Measurements”

      S. A. Raab, T. J. El-Baba, D. W. Woodall, W. Liu, Y. Liu, Z. R. Baird, D. A. Hales, A. Laganowsky, D. H. Russell, and D. E. Clemmer

      Journal of the American Chemical Society 142, 17372-17383 (2020).

    https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.0c05365

  • “Monitoring the stabilities of a mixture of peptides by mass spectrometry based techniques”

      D. R. Fuller, C. R. Conant, T. J. El-Baba, Z. Zhang, K. R. Molloy, C. S. Zhang, D. A. Hales, and D. E. Clemmer

      European Journal of Mass Spectrometry 25, 73–81 (2019).  

    https://doi.org/10.1177/1469066718798718

Frequently taught courses

  • CHEM 110  General Chemistry I: Chemical Structure & Properties
  • CHEM 110L  General Chemistry I Lab
  • CHEM 120  General Chemistry II: Chemical Analysis & Reactivity
  • CHEM 120L  General Chemistry II Lab
  • CHEM 310  Physical Chemistry: Quantum Mechanics & Spectroscopy
  • CHEM 320  Physical Chemistry: Thermodynamics and Chemical Kinetics
  • CHEM ATC  Advanced Techniques in Experimental Chemistry (Lab)
  • CHEM 450  Directed Research

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