Aaron Baker
Associate Professor of Chemistry
260-359-4343
abaker@huntington.edu
Joined the Huntington University faculty in 2018.
Specializing in organic chemistry, Dr. Aaron Baker teaches in the Chemistry Department at Huntington University.
Aaron’s goal as an educator is to help students see how they can make an impact for Christ in any field they choose to pursue with their chemistry degree. He wants them to grow and develop as chemists but also to grasp their moral responsibility as Christians to act ethically and professionally, no matter where their degree takes them.
From Cleveland, Ohio, Aaron lives in Huntington with his wife, Jessica. He enjoys both watching and playing sports as well as the culinary arts.
Education
- Ph.D. in Chemistry from Michigan State University
- Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Ohio Northern University
Notable Experience
- Visiting Assistant Professor in Chemistry for two years at The College of Wooster
Publications and Awards
- “Diastereoselective Tin-Free Tandem Radical Additions to 3-Formylchromones” (Journal of Organic Chemistry)
- “Non-Pd transition metal-catalyzed hydrostannations: Bu3SnF/PMHS as a tin hydride source” (Tetrahedron)
- "Maintaining an Active Organic Class during the COVID-Induced Online Transition at Two Undergraduate Institutions" (Journal of Chemical Education)
- "Developing a Two-step Grignard and Proton Coupled Electron Transfer (PCET) Experiment for an Undergraduate Lab Setting" (Presented as a poster with HU students at the Spring 2025 National American Chemical Society meeting)
- “Modified Sonogashira Reactions for an Undergraduate Lab Setting” (Presented as a poster with HU students at the Spring 2025 National American Chemical Society meeting)
- "Cobalt-Catalyzed Hydrogermylation of Alkynes Using Water as the Solvent" (Presented as a poster with HU students at the Spring 2022 National American Chemical Society meeting)
- “Hydrogermylation of Alkynes “on” Water” (Presented as a poster with HU students at the Spring 2021 National American Chemical Society meeting)
Involvements
- Northeastern Indiana Regional Councilor, American Chemical Society