Joel Karty

Joel Karty earned his B.S. in chemistry at the University of Puget Sound and his Ph.D. at Stanford University. He carried out postdoctoral work with Stephen Craig at Duke University, and began teaching at Elon University in the fall of 2001. At Elon, Joel teaches primarily organic chemistry and general chemistry, and also teaches physical chemistry. In the summers, he teaches an organic chemistry preparatory course as part of the SMDEP program sponsored by the Duke University School of Medicine. His research interests include studying the contributions by resonance and inductive effects in fundamental chemical systems, and he also investigates the mechanism for pattern formation in periodic precipitation reactions. Joel is the author of The Nuts and Bolts of Organic Chemistry (2005), which has recently gone into its second edition as Get Ready for Organic Chemistry (2011).