The design and construction of a new laboratory located at New Mexico Tech for the measurement of gases that deplete stratospheric ozone and that enhance the greenhouse effect is underway. In organic chemistry, fluorescent chemosensors for carbohydrate and biomolecule recognition are being developed which involves organic synthesis and its application to supramolecular chemistry. In most cases, molecular modeling is employed as a tool to predict the interesting properties that these compounds exhibit. New types of template polymers are synthesized with the goal of improving chromatographic separations of racemic mixtures of enantiomers and of developing special ion exchange resins. On the interface between organic and inorganic chemistry, stoichiometric metal-oxyligand coordination complexes utilizing metals in high oxidation states are being developed.
Biochemistry is represented through research on enzyme reactions .
Physical chemistry at New Mexico Tech is pursued both on a theoretical and experimental basis with the focus on magnetic resonance techniques. Experimental solid state NMR spectroscopy is used as a tool to study the structure and properties of novel materials.