Astrochemistry:
What’s New in the Field of
Astrochemistry?
NORTH CAROLINA SECTION, AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
SOCIAL • DINNER • ACS
TOUR SPEAKER
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
RADISSON GOVERNORS INN
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5:30 pm – Cocktails
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6:30 pm – Fixed-Menu Dinner*
Tossed salad • Beef/potato or Chicken/rice, Mixed
vegetable medley • Chocolate cake
7:30 pm – Speaker, Dr. Yorke E.
Rhodes
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attend!
Also you may attend the presentation ONLY at
no cost (7:30pm)!
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Abstract “Astrochemistry: What’s New….”
At the
dawn of the space age in the 1960s, a handful of molecules were known to exist
off Earth. Since those days of early robotic exploration of the Moon and Mars,
fly-bys with spectroscopy of the outer planets, and radio astronomy of distant
areas of our own galaxy and parts of the universe have brought forth a burst of
molecular information. About 120 molecules, some new and some known, have been
identified to date. What types and kinds of molecules exist? What varieties of
molecular species have been found? How did they form, where do they occur, and
what mechanisms exist for molecular formation? Can we model and predict what
other molecules may occur? How has interstellar organic chemistry evolved? The
content of the talk varies and the level of the talk is adaptable to the
audience present.
Biography
Yorke
Rhodes received a B. S. in soil chemistry from the University of Delaware
in 1957, as Senior of the Year in the College, and then earned an M.S. in organic
chemistry in 1959 with William A. Mosher and Darrel Lynch. After completing his
Ph.D. at the University of Illinois in 1964 with Prof. James C. Martin, he was a
National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow with Kenneth B. Wiberg at Yale University.
He joined the faculty of New York University at the University Heights campus in 1965 and
developed research areas in SO2 solvent chemistry, electrocyclic
reactions, small ring chemistry, and carbocations, especially neighboring group
cyclopropane-assisted cation rearrangements. He moved to the Washington Square campus in 1973 after a
sabbatical leave with Horst Prinzbach at the Universitat Freiburg in West Germany.
Work at he Square continued in carbocations, led to alkyl group migratory
aptitude studies and to synthetic studies in silyl ketene acetal chemistry for
synthesis of quaternary neopentyls. He was a State Department exchange visitor
to Prague, Czechoslovakia, and Zagreb, Yugoslavia, in 1977 and was also
Gastprofessor with Ivar Ugi at the Technische Universitat Munchen (TUM)in 1977,
followed by a stay in 1978 as Alexander von Humboldt U.S. Senior Scientist
Awardee at the TUM with Ugi. NASA/IEEE Summer Fellowships were held at the Jet
Propulsion Laboratories at Cal Tech in Pasadena
with Wes Huntress in 1980 and 1981 (astrochemistry). In 1987, he was professor
associe at the Centre d'Astrophysique, Universite
de Grenoble, France,
with Alain Omont (astro-polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon chemistry). Rhodes was
awarded the Golden Dozen Award for Teaching Excellence in the College of Arts
and Science in 1991, and again in 1996. Professor Rhodes has been director of
the Dual Degree Program in Science and Engineering at New York University and
Stevens Institute of Technology, Professor in a Residence in a University
residence hall, and is very active in the New York Academy of Sciences and
American Chemical Society local section activities, sponsoring a variety of
symposia, poster sessions and other activities for students. He was chair of
the ACS New York Section in 1998 and as an ACS Councilor was also a member of
the “Local Section Activities Committee” and welcomes discussions about local
sections. He has served on Department of Education review panels and is an
educational consultant/evaluator for several undergraduate and high school
research mentoring programs.
