Marilyn Whittemore

Marilyn Whittemore has been a synthesis chemist with Buckman Labs, a specialty chemical company in Memphis, Tennessee, for ten years. Her responsibilities include generating new molecules to explore new classes of chemistry, which are studied for the control of microorganisms. After a compound has been synthesized, it must be characterized using  nuclear magnetic resonance mass spec and/or IR. The use of computers to record data, search for alternative synthetic routes, and Internet access for information searching plays a big role in her job. Whittemore thinks team spirit and cooperation are a must because the chemist working at the bench may develop a great molecule for a given purpose but he/she needs the help and support of many people before a product can be developed.

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