Professor Emeritus
Department of Chemistry
Ripon College
300 Seward Street
Ripon, WI 54971
(920) 748-8754

E-mail: ScamehornR@ripon.edu

Education

• 1964 B.A. (magna cum laude) Hanover College, Indiana
• 1968 Ph.D. Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois

Awards and Honors

• NIH Predoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University, 1966-1968
• PRF Summer Faculty Research Fellow, Northwestern University
• Visiting Professor, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK, 1999

Areas of Interest

• Radical chain nucleophilic substitution reactions and the factors which affect reactivity in these reactions.

Recent Publications

• Mahnke, L. A.; Krause, R. D.; Frey, B. L.; Hendriksen, D. L.; Jahn, K. S.; Kultgen, S. G.; Walton, J., C., Scamehorn, R. G.; Aberrant SRN1 Reaction of 4-Aminophenol with _, p-Dinitrocumene: EPR Observation of Intermediates. Org. Lett. 2000, 2, 827-829.
• Scamehorn, Richard G. Rapid Sampling Methods for the Organic Chemistry Laboratory. Using a Diffuse Reflectance Accessory. J. Chem. Educ. 1996, 72, 566.

Current Courses Taught

• Chemistry in Modern Society
• Organic Chemistry
• Chemistry Senior Seminar