Richard Scamehorn

  Richard Scamehorn

 

Education

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

 

Current Courses Taught

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

Recent Publications and Presentations

  • 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.

 

 

 

Areas of Interest

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