Chemical Engineering Students Present Research at American Chemical Society Symposium
POSTED ON: June 23, 2023
Pictured left to right: Ubaidullah Hassan ChE 25, Prof. Robert Q. Topper, Prof. Fabiola Barrios-Landeros, and Mohammed Rhakib ChE 24.
Image of Ubaidullah Hassan ChE 25.
Pictured left to right: Prof. Fabiola Barrios-Landeros and Prof. Robert Q. Topper.
Presenters and mentors at the 70th annual Undergraduate Research Symposium of the American Chemical Society.
Undergraduate chemical engineering students Mohammed Rhakib ChE‘24 and Ubaidullah Hassan ChE‘25 recently presented their research at the 70th annual Undergraduate Research Symposium of the New York section of the American Chemical Society.
The annual meeting took place at LaGuardia Community College on May 6, 2023, and featured 57 presentations by students from 25 colleges and universities, as well as keynote addresses and a luncheon sponsored by PepsiCo and the CUNY Graduate School.
Rhakib’s presentation in the Interdisciplinary session focused on new synthetic methods developed at Cooper Union under the supervision of Chemistry Prof. Fabiola Barrios-Landeros. His talk was entitled “Copper Promoted Aromatic Acyloxylation: Synthesizing Aromatic Esters From Aryl Halides Using Copper (II) Complexes.” Hassan’s talk in the Nano and Surface Chemistry session was about his use of computational quantum mechanics and molecular modeling to interpret the mass spectra of nanoparticles found in polluted urban atmospheres due to combustion. His work was advised by Chemistry Prof. Robert Q. Topper and was entitled “Computational Analysis Of Mass Spectra And Growth Patterns Of Ammonium Nitrate Nanoparticles.” In addition to these presenters and mentors, the meeting was also attended by Chemistry Prof. Kevin Kolack.
