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Teaching Chemical Kinetic Experimentation

Understand Chemical Kinetic Experimentation

Chemical kinetic experimentation methods are discussed by Professor John Sowa. Professor Sowa shows how to perform experiments on well-characterized unimolecular, bimolecular and catalytic reactions and demonstrates experiments that determine reaction order, rate constants and energy of activation. The goal of the presentation is to show how to perform basic experiments so that they can be used in an academic educational environment and for training of industrial chemists.

Understanding the kinetics of a chemical reaction is one of the most fundamental aspects of chemistry. However, kinetics experiments are not easy to perform. In fact, in the educational environment, most teaching laboratory experiments are related to synthesis, qualitative and quantitative analysis and chemists receive insufficient training in performing kinetic experiments.  Professor Sowa discusses how to efficiently teach chemical kinetic experiments.

Guest Presenter
Professor John R. Sowa, Jr., Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Seton Hall University. Prof Sowa joined the faculty at Seton Hall University in 1994 and teaches organic chemistry and spectroscopy undergraduate and graduate courses. His research program investigates new ways to synthesize organic molecules via transition metal catalysts as well as monitoring chemical reactions and dissolution of drugs by in-situ IR spectroscopy and preparation of organometallic reagents for signal enhancement in LC-MS. His notable publications include:

  • Joseph P. Simeone, John R. Sowa, Jr., "Palladium on carbon as a precatalyst for the Suzuki-Miyuara cross-coupling of aryl chlorides," Tetrahedron, 2007, 63, 12646-12654.
  • Editor, Catalysis of Organic Reactions (Chemical Industries Series, Vol. 104), CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 2005.
  • "Suzuki-Miyaura Coupling with Quasi-Heterogeneous Palladium". Conlon, D. A., Pipik, B., Ferdinand, S., LeBlond, C. R., Sowa, J. R. Jr., Izzo, B, Ho, G.-J., Williams, J. M., Shi., Y.-J., Sun, Y.-K. Adv. Synth. Catal., 2003, 345, 931-935.