Foundations of Physical Organic Chemistry

Dr. E. Thomas (Tom) Strom is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), where he teaches organic and polymer chemistry. He came to UTA after retiring from Mobil in Dallas, where he worked 32 years as a research chemist studying oil field chemistry. He was Chair of the ACS Division of the History of Chemistry in 2011-2012. His research interests are in the history of chemistry and the study of anion radicals by electron spin resonancespectroscopy. He received his B.S.Chem degree from the University of Iowa, his M.S.Chem degree in nuclear chemistry from UC-Berkeley, and his Ph.D. in physical organic chemistry from Iowa State University working under mentor Glen A. Russell. Previously he has co-edited two volumes in the ACS SymposiumSeries.Dr. Vera Mainz is retired Director of the NMR Lab in the School of Chemical Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received a B.S. in Chemistry and Mathematics at Kansas Newman College (1976), a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry at the University of California Berkeley (1981, with R. A. Andersen), spent 1-1/2 years working at Rohm and Haas in Springhouse, PA, and had a postdoctoral position at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1983-1985) before becomingDirector of the NMR Lab. She was elected to the position of Secretary-Treasurer of the History of Chemistry Division (HIST) of the ACS in 1995, and has served as Secretary-Treasurer since that time.

• 1. James Flack Norris: His Early Contributions to Physical Organic Chemistry 2. My Study of Optical Activity - From the Distant Past to the Present with Stops in-Between 3. Some Thermochemical Studies of Solvation from the 1960s and 1970s 4. A Life in Physical Organic Chemistry5. Hydrogen Isotopes in Physical Organic Chemistry6. Exploring Free Radicals: The Life and Chemistry of Glen A. Russell 7. Norbornyl Cation Isomers Still Fascinate 8. From the Ivy League to the Honey Pot9. Lost in the Funhouse. Life in the Research Laboratory of William von Eggers Doering 10. 60 Years of Research on Free Radical Physical Organic Chemistry 11. Diradicals -- A Fifty Year Fascination