Emeritus Professor of Chemistry
Science 266
1250 Siskiyou Blvd.
Ashland, OR 97520
(541) 552-6406
Email: lkirms@sou.edu
Education:
B.S. Chemistry with honors (1981) University of Hawaii at Manoa
Ph.D. Organic Chemistry (1987) Colorado State University
Experience:
Universal Energy Systems Summer Research Fellow, Astronautics Laboratory, Edwards AFB, (1990)
Sabbatical at U.S. Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory, Ashland OR (2002-2003)
Joined SOU Chemistry department in 1987
Teaching Areas:
Organic Chemistry (Ch334/5/6) with Laboratory (Ch337/8)
Organic Spectroscopy (Ch 340)
Scholarly Interests:
MALDI-TOF analysis of hemoglobins for species identification
Applications of Peer Led Team Learning, Guided Inquiry in the Classroom
Publications:
"Students as Letter Writers: How Letters Inform Instructors", Kirms, L.M., Journal of Chemical Education, 2004, 81, 982.
"The Identification of Sodium Fluoroacetate (Compound 1080) Employing NMR Spectroscopy", Kirms, M.A., Kirms, L.M., Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2002, 47, 573.
"Photochemical Rearrangements of Silyl-Cyclopropenes Which Afford Pathways to Allenes." Kirms, M.A, Salcido, S.; Kirms, L.M., Tetrahedron Letters, 1995, 36, 7979.
"Synthesis of Functionalized Bicyclic Dioxopiperazines via Intramolecular Epoxide Ring Opening", Williams, R.M.; Maruyama, L.K., Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1987, 52, 4044.
"Divergent, Generalized Synthesis of Unsymmetrically Substituted 2,5-Piperazinediones", Williams, R.M.; Armstrong, R.W.; Maruyama, L.K.; Dung, J.S.; Anderson, O.P., Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1985, 107, 3246.
Grants:
"A New GC-MS for Chemistry", McDougal, O.M.; Kirms, L.M., $74,000 funded by Agilent Technologies, 2003.
"Synthesis of Tetranitrohomocubane", L.M. Kirms, $20,000 funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, 1990.
"FT-NMR for Improved Undergraduate Research and Instruction", L.M. Kirms, $71,000 funded by the National Science Foundation, 1989.
