February 2002 Meeting
The three hundred and thirty third meeting of the Section will be held on the campus of Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, PA, on Tuesday, February 19, 2002. Professor Mark Maroncelli, Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University will present "Supercritical Solvents." Please note that the day of this meeting is on a Tuesday.
Reception: 6:00 p.m., Susquehanna University, Degenstein Campus Center, Meeting Rooms 3, 4, 5.
Dinner: 6:30 p.m., same location, Pasta Buffet. Cost: $9.50 per person. Please R.S.V.P to Dr. Steven Mayer at 570-372-4223 or smayer@susqu.edu by Friday, February 15, 2002.
Directions to Susquehanna University: Please visit the following URL http://www.susqu.edu/admissions/maps.htm
The meeting will begin at 8:00 pm in Isaacs Auditorium
Professor Mark Maroncelli
Professor Maroncelli grew up in Sandown, NH. He received a B.S. from Williams College in 1979 and earned a Ph.D. from Berkeley in 1983 under the direction of Robert Snyder and Herbert Strauss. His dissertation was titled "Infrared Studies of Conformational Disorder in Solid n-Alkanes.¡Ö Professor Maroncelli held a post-doctoral position with Joseph Nibler at Oregon State where he worked on CARS spectroscopy of jet-cooled complexes. He also held a post-doctoral position with Graham Fleming at the University of Chicago where he worked on ultrafast spectroscopy of the dynamics of solvation. In 1987, Professor Maroncelli became an Assistant Professor at PSU. In 1997, he was promoted to Full Professor.
Professor Maroncelli's research interests are: solvation and solvent effects on chemical reactions, liquid-phase dynamics, electron and proton transfer reactions, supercritical fluids, ultrafast spectroscopy, and computer simulations. "Other than work, my main source of entertainment is playing squash (which I do far too frequently)."
Professor Maroncelli is currently on a sabbatical funded from a Guggenheim Fellowship to take a full year (last semester at UT Austin, this semester at PSU).
Supercritical Solvents
Supercritical fluids are finding increasing use as alternatives to typical organic solvents in a variety of applications including chemical synthesis, extraction and purification, and materials processing. In this talk Professor Maroncelli will survey some of the general solvent characteristics of supercritical fluids that makes them useful in these applications and discuss some of the work currently being done to understand fundamental aspects of supercritical solvation.
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