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Chemistry

Anne E. Moody

Anne E. Moody

Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
Truman State University
Kirksville, MO 63501
(660) 785-4591
(660) 785-4045 (fax)
amoody@truman.edu

Education

  • B.S., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  • Ph.D., Colorado Sate University

Courses Taught

  • Foundations of Organic Chemistry
  • Organic Chemistry I
  • Organic Chemistry Lab I
  • Organic Chemistry II
  • Organic Chemistry Lab II
  • Organic Chemistry (Super) Lab
  • JINS Course: The Chemistry of Art (pdf file)

Research Interests

Physical Organic Chemistry; Natural products of plants and mushrooms, Organic Chemistry education in both classroom the laboratory settings.

Plant and fungal organic natural products, can be isolated from locally collected materials, structurally characterized by spectroscopic and chemical means, and examined for bioactivity. The choice of the sources of the natural products is driven by folklore reports of medicinal use of these plants and mushrooms. For example, quinones are ubiquitous in nature, serving a variety of functions in plants and animals. We are presently investigating the photochemical dimerization of quinones reportedly found in various impatiens plants.