Lecturer in Chemistry
B.A. 1986, Texas A&M University B.S. 1988, University
of Minnesota/Twin Cities Ph.D. 1995, University of Utah
Physical-Analytical Chemistry
Kinetics and mechanisms of FeO42- oxidation of aromatic compounds;
detection of pesticides and PCBs in the environment; electron
transfer; electron paramagnetic resonance.
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Department
of Chemistry, 701A LGRT
University of Massachusetts
710 North Pleasant Street
Amherst, MA 01003-9336 |
office:
149E Goessmann Laboratory
tel: 413-545-4634 fax: 413-545-4490
dsommerf@chem.umass.edu
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Principal Research Interests
Teaching analytical and physcial chemistry laboratories is
my primary responsibility in the department. Over the next
few years, we have significant goals involving curriculum changes
in both of these areas. The overarching objective is to create
a series of integrated laboratory courses for the chemistry
majors. Topics and concepts first seen in quantitative analysis
will then be expanded upon, and covered in greater depth in
instrumental analysis and physical chemistry. The labs themselves
will be made available to students on-line, and pre-lab exercises
will be developed and delivered over the net. Laboratory experiments
will focus upon distinct themes that reflect active areas of
chemistry research: environmental chemistry, materials and
biological chemistry. Co-commitment with this plan of curriculum
development is the task of upgrading and modernizing the instrumentation
available for the laboratories.
I also look forward to developing research projects in the
coming years. The broad areas of kinetics and environmental
chemistry are my primary interests. My current focus is on
the oxidation reactions of FeO42- with aromatic species. Ferrate
chemistry still has many unresolved issues that I plan to pursue.
Representative Publications
“Ferrate(VI) Oxidation of Aqueous Phenol:
Kinetics and Mechanism,” H. Huang, D.
Sommerfeld, B.
C. Dunn, E. M. Eyring, C. R. Lloyd, J. Phys. Chem. A, 105,
3536 (2001).
“Ferrate(VI) Oxidation of Aniline,” H. Huang,
D. A. Sommerfeld, B. C. Dunn, C. R. Lloyd, E. M. Eyring, J.
Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans.,1301-1305 (2001). |
