Chemistry @ Colgate: John Cochran

Chemistry @ Colgate

John Cochran
Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus

B.A. (Chemistry) 1957, College of Wooster
M.A. (Chemistry) 1960, University of North Carolina
Ph.D. (Chemistry) 1967, University of New Hampshire

Email: jcochran@mail.colgate.edu
(315) 228-7233

Teaching Interests: Organic Chemistry, General Chemistry

Research Interests: Synthesis and reactivity of organostannanes, especially vinylstannanes, organotin hydrides and organotin anions; promotion of organic reactions by ultrasound. Detailed descriptions of current research projects are available.

Selected Publications

John C. Cochran, Kevin L. Caran*, Elizabeth A. Pierz*, and David M. Miller*, "Kinetics of the Uncatalyzed Hydrostannation of Diethyl Acetylenedicarboxylate," Synth. React. Inorg. Met.-Org. Chem. 33(5), 725-734 (2003)
John C. Cochran, Vicki Prindle*, Heather A. Young*, Mark H. Kumar*, Samson Tom*, Nicholas D. K. Petraco*, Clare Mohoro*, and Brenden Kelley*, “Alkyl- and Acyl-Substituted Vinylstannanes: Synthesis and Reactivity in Electrophilic Substitution Reactions,” Synth. React. Inorg. Met.-Org. Chem. 32, 885 (2002)
Nicholas D. K. Petraco*, David A. Modarelli, and John C. Cochran, “The Structure of the Intermediate Radical in the Hydrostannation of Phenylacetylene.”Synth. React. Inorg. Met.-Org. Chem. 31, 757, (2001)
John C. Cochran and Michael L. Neidig,* “CUR, NCUR and a Student perspective on a National Research Conference,” J. Chem. Educ. 7, 146 (2000)
Martin Gabriele*, Henry G. Kuivila, and John C. Cochran, "Catalysis of the Diels-Alder Reaction by Organotin Halides, Main Group Metal Chem. 21, 207 (1998)
John C. Cochran, Kolbjorn Hagan, Quang Shen, Samson Tom*, Marit Traettiberg and Christopher Wells*, "On the Planarity of Styrene and Its Derivatives: The Molecular Structures of Styrene and (Z)-b-Bromostyrene as Determined by ab Initio Calculations and Gas-Phase Electron Diffraction," J. Mol. Struct. 413-414, 313 (1997).
John C. Cochran, Susan R. Friedman* and John P. Frazier*, "Synthesis of Disulfides from the Palladium(0)-Catalyzed Reactions of Sulfenyl Halides and Organostannanes," J. Org. Chem. 61, 1533 (1996).
Rebecca J. Greenwald*, Samson Tom*, William Zucconi* and John C. Cochran, "Carbon-Tin Vibrational Frequencies in Substituted Vinylstannanes," Main Group Metal Chemistry 17, 435 (1994).
John C. Cochran, Harmony K. Phillips*, Samson Tom*, Alexander R. Hurd* and Brian S. Bronk*, "Phenyl-Substituted Vinylstannanes: Synthesis and Reactivity in Electrophilic Substitution Reactions," Organometallics 13, 947 (1994).
Quang Shen, Shannon Rhodes* and John C. Cochran, "Molecular Structure and Conformation of Cyclohexysilane as Determined by Gas-Phase Electron Diffraction," Organometallics 11, 485 (1992).

Asterisks indicate undergraduate student co-authors who conducted their research in collaboration with a faculty member at Colgate.

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