{"id":54,"date":"2008-09-01T11:20:30","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T15:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/2008\/09\/11\/brian-mahoney-09\/"},"modified":"2008-09-19T08:46:07","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T12:46:07","slug":"brian-mahoney-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/2008\/09\/01\/brian-mahoney-09\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Mahoney &#8217;09: Research Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/files\/2008\/08\/briand_mahoney.jpg\" title=\"briand_mahoney.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/files\/2008\/08\/briand_mahoney.jpg\" alt=\"briand_mahoney.jpg\" \/><\/a>Brian Mahoney will graduate this year with degrees in both chemistry and physics.\u00a0 His research has been in the chemistry department with Wade Downey, and he spent his summer developing a new way to synthesize propargylic alcohols.\u00a0 These compounds are frequently used as starting points for further sythesis of drug compounds by the pharmaceutical industry, and Brian has worked to make the sythesis faster and more economical.\u00a0 Brian began working with professor Downey during his freshman year.\u00a0 This fall, he will present his work at a chemistry conference in Nashville, TN.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Mahoney will graduate this year with degrees in both chemistry and physics.\u00a0 His research has been in the chemistry department with Wade Downey, and he spent his summer developing a new way to synthesize propargylic alcohols.\u00a0 These compounds are frequently used as starting points for further sythesis of drug compounds by the pharmaceutical industry, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/2008\/09\/01\/brian-mahoney-09\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brian Mahoney &#8217;09: Research Update<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[508],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}