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William R. Dolbier, Jr. Professor William R. Dolbier, Jr. was born in Elizabeth, NJ, August 17, 1939, and he received his B. S. in Chemistry from Stetson University in 1961. He obtained his Ph. D. in organic chemistry from Cornell University in 1965, working with Mel Goldstein, and after one and a half years of postdoctoral work with Bill Doering at Yale, joined the faculty in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Florida in 1966. He has been at UF ever since, serving as Chairman of the Department from 1983-1988. Throughout his career, Bill’s research interests have been largely physical organic in nature. He maintains long-term interests in thermal homolytic and pericyclic reactions, and since 1975 most of his efforts have been devoted to gaining a fundamental understanding of the reactivity of fluorine-containing compounds in such reactions. Over the last decade, his research group’s efforts have evolved to focus on kinetic studies of fluorinated free radicals and to indulge in an increasing interest in the development of novel synthetic methods in organofluorine chemistry. Having been frequently recognized during his career for teaching and research, in 2000 Professor Dolbier was the recipient of the American Chemical Society Award for Creative Work in Fluorine Chemistry. He currently supervises a research group of seven Ph. D. students and four post-doctoral researchers at the University of Florida. |
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LECTURE Aspects of the Reactivity of Fluorinated Free Radicals |
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