Gerard Smith

General Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Heterogeneous Catalysis

M.S. 1965 Mannat Menon "Metal Catalyzed Reactions Between Deuterium and cis- and trans- Cyclododecene"

Ph.D. 1966 Jerome Roth "The Hydrogenation and Exchange of a,ß - Unsaturated Esters and Styrenes"

Ph.D. 1971 Dilip Desai "Hydrogenation, Exchange and Racemization of Pinenes and Cyclohexenes over Palladium, Platinum, and Rhodium Catalysts"

Ph.D. 1971 Richard Shuford "Comparison of Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalytic Hydrogenation and Exchange of Substituted Carbon-Carbon Double Bonds using Chlorotris-(Triphenylphosphine) Rhodium(I) and Solid Rhodium Metal Catalysts"

M.S. 1971 Joseph Delich "Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Exchange of a,ß- Unsaturated Esters and Ketones over Modified Raney Nickel Catalysts"

Ph.D. 1972 Walter Boyd "Catalytic Hydrogenation of Pinene Derivatives over Heterogeneous Palladium and Platinum Catalysts. The Use and Mechanism of NMR Shift Reagents in Stereochemical Elucidations."

Ph.D. 1973 Marvin Klotz "Solvent Modification of Platinum and Palladium Catalyzed Hydrogenation, Exchange and Isomerization of Alkenes"

Ph.D. 1975 Scott Cowley "The Hydrogenolysis and Exchange of Sulfur Heterocycles Present in Coal"

Ph.D. 1975 Marian Musoiu "Asymmetric Hydrogenation over Modified Raney Nickel"

Ph.D. 1976 Juei-Ho Liu "Mössbauer Spectroscopic Investigations of Iron Promoted Adams Platinum Catalyst System and Coal"

Ph.D. 1976 William Millman "Hydrogenation and Exchange of a,ß-Unsaturated Aldehydes and Hydrodesulfurization and Exchange of Thiophene"

Ph.D. 1979 Hans Maurer "Mechanistic and Kinetic Studies on the Catalyzed Condensation of Methylene Glycol to Sugars"

M.S. 1981 Thomas Pettit "Catalytic Deuteriumation of Olefins over Metallic Glasses"

Ph.D. 1983 Muhib Khan "Effects of Solvent and Surface Structure on Catalytic Hydrogenation of Olefins"

Ph.D. 1985 Michael Thompson "A Study of the Decomposition of 1-Butanethiol and 2-Propanol over Synthetic Iron Sulfide Catalysts Supported on Silica"

Ph.D. 1985 Boris Rihter "Syntheses and Isomerization of Deuterated Apopinenes over Palladium Catalysts"

M.S. 1986 Zawiah Ali "Heats of Hydrogenation by Flow Calorimetric Method"

Ph.D. 1987 Samenath Mitra "Development of Techniques Using Thermal Desorption Modulators for Gas Chromatography and Their Applications in Hydrodesulfurization Studies"

M.S. 1988 Sariwan Tjandra "Supercatalytic Hydrogenation by Oxidative Reactivation of Silicon- Poisoned Catalysts"

Ph.D. 1989 Parfait Likibi "Isomerization of 6,6-Dimethylbicyclo [3.1.1] hept-2-ene Over Dispersed Catalysts: Mechanisms Elucidation. 1H NMR of 6,6- Dimethybicyclo [3.1.1] hept-2-ene: On the Question of syn-Methyl and anti-Methyl Chemical Shifts"

Ph.D. 1991 Ruozhi Song "Structure Sensitivity and Mechanism of Aldehyde Decarbonylation Over Pd and Pt Catalysts"

M.S. 1996 Jianjun Cheng "Enantioselective Hydrogenation of C=C Bonds over New Chiral Heterogeneous Catalysts"

M.S. 1996 Feng Shi "A Development of New Heterogeneous Catalysts for Asymmetric Hydrogenation"

M. S. 1997 Yaguang Wang "The Mechanistic Study of Catalytic Hydrogenation of (R)-(-)-10-Methyl-D1(9)-Octalin"

C. Postdoctoral Scholars

Professor Smith has had seventeen Postdoctoral Scholars at SIUC.

The Free University of Iran, January 20, 1978 - August 31, 1981, awarded $346,071; actually paid $57,668; through arbitration at The Hague another $25,000 was awarded to SIUC from Iranian impounded funds.

Visiting Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Republic of Korea, February 20 - July 31, 1996