Catherine Evers Smith
June 12, 2017
Senior chemistry student Catherine Evers Smith currently works with Dr. Arumugam’s research team. She explains her research:
"The research team had previously shown that compounds with gold and ferrocene groups increase oxidative stress in cancer cells. This is because the gold attacks thiol which inhibits the antioxidant pathway and the ferrocenes ability to oxidize easily. My research looks at what happens to the oxidation of the ferrocenes when we switch the counter ion on the compound. My goal then was to switch the counter ion on tested [Bis-(1,3-di(ferrocenyl methyl)imidazole-2