Tamara Gund
Professor, Chemistry and Environmental Science
388 Tiernan Hall (TIER)
About Me
I did my undergraduate studies at . Rutgers University, my Masters degree at the University of Massachbusetts in Amherst, Mass and my PhD at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. Following that I did Postdoctoral work at Princeton and Rockefeller Universities. My work experience has included teaching and research at Rutgers University, at NJIT and American Cyanamid Company.
Education
Ph.D.
; Princeton University
; Physical Organic Chemistry
; 1973
M.S. ; University of Massachusetts Amherst ; Organic/Organometallic Chemistry ; 1966
B.A. ; Rutgers University-Newark ; Chemistry ; 1963
M.S. ; University of Massachusetts Amherst ; Organic/Organometallic Chemistry ; 1966
B.A. ; Rutgers University-Newark ; Chemistry ; 1963
Teaching Interests
My teaching interests include Organic Chemistry, Advanced Organic Chemistry and Computational and Molecular Modeling.
Past Courses
CHEM 121: FUND OF CHEMICAL PRINCIPLES I
CHEM 126: GEN CHEMISTRY II
CHEM 243: ORGANIC CHEMISTRY I
CHEM 244: ORGANIC CHEMISTRY II
CHEM 244A: ORGANIC CHEMISTRY II LAB
CHEM 437: APPL COMPUTATNL CHEM & MOL MOD
CHEM 490: SPECIAL TOPICS IN CHEM
CHEM 605: ADV ORGANIC CHEM:STRUCTR
CHEM 605: ADVANCED ORGANIC CHEMISTRY I: STRUCTURE
CHEM 737: COMP CHEM & MOLECULAR MODELING
CHEM 791: GRADUATE SEMINAR
CHEM 126: GEN CHEMISTRY II
CHEM 243: ORGANIC CHEMISTRY I
CHEM 244: ORGANIC CHEMISTRY II
CHEM 244A: ORGANIC CHEMISTRY II LAB
CHEM 437: APPL COMPUTATNL CHEM & MOL MOD
CHEM 490: SPECIAL TOPICS IN CHEM
CHEM 605: ADV ORGANIC CHEM:STRUCTR
CHEM 605: ADVANCED ORGANIC CHEMISTRY I: STRUCTURE
CHEM 737: COMP CHEM & MOLECULAR MODELING
CHEM 791: GRADUATE SEMINAR
Research Interests
My research interests are in drug design, computational chemistry and Molecular Modeling. I am interested in working with various drug receptor systems such as the sigma receptor, nicotinic.muscarinic, antimalarial and other receptors. I develop pharmacophores, do structure activity correlations and design new ligands which act as agonists or antagonists for the different receptors.