MAUREEN FAGAN

Phone: 413-585-3943

Fax: 413-585-3839

Office: Sabin-Reed 230

E-mail: mfagan@science.smith.edu

Professor Fagan's research focuses on the mechanisms of organic and organometallic reactions: how do they work and how can their selectivity be improved? She is looking at two very divergent systems that remarkably have similar intermediates: (1) palladium complexes used to create carbon-carbon bonds with stereoselectivity, and (2) bacterial enzymes that dechlorinate haloacetic acids in water.