Research Interests

• Chemistry education, organic compounds for novel applications

 Academic Background

• B.S., Lamar University, 1972

• Ph.D., University of Houston, 1977

Teaching

• Organic Chemistry

• Computer Science

Selected Publications

• A.T. Balaban, R.E. Garfield, M.J. Lesko and W.A. Seitz, "Synthesis and Spectral Data of Some New N-Nitroso-N-Phenylhydroxylamine (Cupferron) Derivatives," in Organic Preparations and Procedures Int., 30(4), 439-446 (1998).

• M.J. Lesko, "Stereoisomer Bubbles," in Journal of Chemical Education, 73(5), 429 (1996).

• A.T. Balaban, M. Cravey and I. Ghiviriga, "Reaction of Pyrylium Salts with Nucleophiles. Part 24.  Spectral Study of Pyridinium Salts with a Long Linear (para-n-Alkyl)-Phenyl Group", in Heterocyclic Communications,  1, 17 (1994).

• M.J. Cravey, "Science Demonstrations" in Partnerships in Chemical Research and Education, ed. J.E. McEvoy, American Chemical Society Symposium Series No. 478, Washington, D.C., 1992.

• D.J. Klein, M.J. Cravey and G.E. Hite, "Fractal Benzenoids", Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons, 2, 163 (1991).

   

Melanie Jemison Lesko

Marine Sciences

Texas A&M University at Galveston

leskom@tamug.edu

Phone: (409)740-4517