Chemistry Department

David Hales, Ph.D.

Hales, David

David Hales, Ph.D.

Thomas E. Goodwin Odyssey Professor of Chemistry

Chair, Department 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

  • Hendrix undergraduate co-authors are underlined

     

  • "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 Spectrometry201925 , 73-81.  DOI: 10.1177/1469066718798718

    • "Solvent mediation of peptide conformations: polyproline structures in water, methanol, ethanol and 1-propanol as determined by IMS-MS"

      T. J. El-Baba, D. R. Fuller, D. A. Hales, D. H. Russell, and D. E. Clemmer

      Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry2019 , 30 , 77-84.  DOI: 10.1007/s13361-018-2034-7

    • "Long-lived Intermediates in a Cooperative Two-State Folding Transition" 

      T. J. El-Baba, D. Kim, D. B. Rogers , F. A. Khan , D. A. Hales, D. H. Russell, and D. E. Clemmer

      Journal of Physical Chemistry B2016 , 120 , 12040-12046.  DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b08932

    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 150  Accelerated General Chemistry
    • 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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