Darrell Watson PhD.

Job Title: 
Dean of Sciences, LeVesconte Professor and Professor of Chemistry
Phone: 
(254) 295-4537
Email Address: 
dwatson@umhb.edu
Subjects Taught: 
Organic Chemistry I & II, Chemical Demonstrations, Chemical Research, Chemical Safety, Environmental Science and Environmental Chemistry
Degrees Earned: 
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 1971 – 1975 Ph.D., August 1975—received a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry under the direction of Dr. P. S. Mariano working on exploratory photochemistry. This work involved techniques in organic synthesis, exploratory photochemistry, and all phases of organic spectroscopy. Employed as a graduate teaching assistant from 1971 to 1975. Sul Ross State University, Alpine, Texas 1965 – 1969 B.S., May 1969—majored in Chemistry and minored in Range Animal Science. Employed as an undergraduate teaching assistant from 1967-1969.

Center for Photochemical Sciences

Bowling Green University

Bowling Green, Ohio

 

Fall 1990                  Post-doctoral Fellow; worked with Dr. D.C. Neckers.

 

General Motors Corporation

 

1989 – 1990             Chemical Consultants

 

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, Canada

 

Fall 1988                  Post-doctoral Fellow; worked with Dr. John Schaeffer.

 

University of Houston

Houston, Texas

 

1982 Summer          Visiting Professor; worked with Dr. Harold Kohn.

 

State University of New York at Binghamton

Binghamton, New York

 

Fall 1975                  National Institute of Health Fellow with Dr. Alfred Hassner.  My primary concern was in the synthesis and photochemistry of divinyl phosphonium salts.

 

 

     Publications and Presentations

 

“Photochemistry of 4-Methylverbenone”, J. of Org. Chem., 39, 2774, (1974) with P.S. Mariano.

 

“The Photochemistry of 1,4-Dienes”, 11th Informal Conference on Photochemistry, Nashville, Tennessee, June 1974

 

“The Photochemistry of 1,3-Dimethyl-3-Styrlcyclohexene”, 30th Annual Southwest Regional ACS Meeting, Houston, Texas, December 1974.

 

“The Di-p-Methane Rearrangement, Interesting Observations from the Photochemistry of 1,3-Dimethly-3-(B-Styrl)  Cyclohexene”, Tetrahedron Letters, 3439, (1975), with P.S. Mariano.

 

“Stereochemical and Mechanistic Aspects of the Di-p-Methane Rearrangement”, JACS, 98, 5899, (1976).

 

“The Di-p-Methane Rearrangement.  The Effect of 1,4-Diene Structure and Conformation on the Reaction Efficiency and Stereochemistry”, Tetrahedron 33, 11, (1977).

“Novel Photochemical Rearrangements of Enamino Ketones”, 35th Southwest Regional ACS Meeting, Austin, Texas, December 1979.

“Mechanistic Aspects of the Gas Phase Photodecarbonylation Reactions of Bicyclo-(3,1,0) hexanones”, J. of Org. Chem., 45, 1753, (1980) with P.S. Mariano.

 

“Novel Photochemical Reactions of Enamino Ketones”, Tetrahedron Letters, 3969, (1980).

 

“Novel Photochemical Rearrangements of Enamino Ketones”, 35th Southwest Regional ACS Meeting, Austin, Texas, December 1979.

 

“Photochemical Investigations of 4-(N-Methylanilino)-pent-3-en-one”, Texas Journal of Science, 4, (1981).

 

“The Effect of Structural Modification of the Hydantoin Ring on Anticonvulsant Activity”, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 18, 601, with H. Kohn.

 

“The Photochemistry of 4-(N-Methyl-anilino)-Pent-3-en-2-one”, Tetrahedron Letters, 143, (1985).

“Thermal Isomerizations of Heteroatom Substituted—Unsaturated Ketones”, 1987 Annual Meeting of the Michigan Academy of Science, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 27, 1987.

 

“Pyrolysates Produced by CO2 Laser Processing of Polymers II.  Perfluorinated Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Obtained from Teflon”, Polymer Preprints, 28, 250, 1987.

 

“Prototropic Control of the Di-p-Methane Photorearrangement, Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, 9, 600, 1989.

 

“Phototropic Control of Organic Photochemistry.  Hydrogen Bonding Effects in The Di-p-Methane Rearrangement” with John Scheffer, University of British Columbia, Vancourver, British Columbia, Canada.  Submitted to the Journal of Organic Chemistry, Vol. 57, Pages 241-247, 1992.

 

“Photopolymerization Studies Using Visible Light Photoinitiators”. With D.C. Neckers, Center for Photochemical Sciences, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Macromolecules, p.541, 25, 1992.

 

“Investigation of the Monoalkylation of Substituted Anilines” presented at the 214th National Meeting of the ACS, Dallas, Texas, Spring, 1997.

 

Donald F. Mullica, Dennis R. Dillin, Darrell G. Watson, Michael Angel, J. Matt Farmer, and      Jason Kautz, Journal of Chemical Crystallography, 28, 899 (1998).

 

Jason Kautz, Dennis R. Dillin and Darrell G. Watson, Journal of Chemical Crystallography, in press.

 

“Comparing the Preparation of N-arylenamino Ketones with Standard Reflux Conditions to Microwave Methods” – Poster by:  Chun Ho Chow.  225th National ACS Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Spring 2003.

 

“Mechanism for Formation of 2,4 Dimethylquinoline in the Preparation of 4-anilino-3-pentene-2-one” – Poster by:  Jin Song Wu.  225th National ACS Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Spring 2003.

 

“Investigation of the Preparation of N-arylenamino Esters” – Poster by:  Dennis Dillin, PhD, Darrell Watson, PhD, Angela Jewel and Elaina Wild-Shankle.  227th National ACS Meeting, Anaheim, California, Spring 2004.

 

“Continued Investigative methods of Preparing N-arylenamino Ketones and N-arylenamino Esters” –Poster by:  Brenton McKinney and Darrell Watson, PhD.  233rd National ACS Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, Spring 2007.

 

 

Patents

 

Amino Acid Derivative Anticonvulsant, with Harold Kohn, University of Houston, January 3, 1995 and August 5, 1997.

 

Production of Three Dimensional Bodies by Photo polymerization, with D.C. Neckers, Bowling Green State University, August 11, 1992.