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Steven M. Bachrach is an
Bachrach has written a textbook about computational organic chemistry, the second edition of which was published by
organic chemist
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who took up the position of Dean of Science at Monmouth University
Monmouth University is a private university in West Long Branch, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1933 as Monmouth Junior College, it became Monmouth College in 1956 and Monmouth University in 1995 after receiving its university charter, c ...
in 2016. Bachrach had previously been the Dr D. R. Semmes Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. Bachrach is the author of the textbook ''Computational Organic Chemistry''.
Education
Bachrach earned aBachelor of Science
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degree from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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and a PhD
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from the University of California, Berkeley
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Career
Bachrach is anorganic chemist
Organic chemistry is a subdiscipline within chemistry involving the science, scientific study of the structure, properties, and reactions of organic compounds and organic matter, organic materials, i.e., matter in its various forms that contain ...
specializing in computational organic chemistry and began his career at Northern Illinois University
Northern Illinois University (NIU) is a public research university in DeKalb, Illinois, United States. It was founded as "Northern Illinois State Normal School" in 1895 by Illinois Governor John P. Altgeld, initially to provide the state with c ...
, where he earned a Professorship
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. He spent 17 years at Trinity University, holding positions including the Dr. D. R. Semmes Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Chair of the Department of Chemistry, and Assistant Vice-President for Special Projects. He then took up the position of Dean of Science in 2016 at Monmouth University
Monmouth University is a private university in West Long Branch, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1933 as Monmouth Junior College, it became Monmouth College in 1956 and Monmouth University in 1995 after receiving its university charter, c ...
. Bachrach departed from Monmouth University in 2022 and currently holds the position of Dean, Artis College of Science and Technology at Radford University
Radford University is a public university in Radford, Virginia, United States. It is one of the state's eight doctorate-granting public universities. Founded in 1910, Radford offers curricula for undergraduates in more than 100 fields, graduate ...
.
Computational organic chemistry
Bachrach has written a textbook about computational organic chemistry, the second edition of which was published by John Wiley and Sons
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in 2014. Bachrach maintains a blog
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to provide supplementary materials for the textbook. For example, following the publication of the structure of the dication
A dication is any cation, of general formula X2+, formed by the removal of two electrons from a neutral species.
Diatomic dications corresponding to stable neutral species (e.g. formed by removal of two electrons from H2) often decay quickly int ...
of hexamethylbenzene
Hexamethylbenzene, also known as mellitene, is a hydrocarbon with the molecular formula C12H18 and the condensed structural formula C6(CH3)6. It is an aromatic compound and a derivative of benzene, where benzene's six hydrogen atoms have each ...
, , in ''Angewandte Chemie International Edition
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'', Bachrach discussed its pyramidal geometry and six-coordinate carbon moiety
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in a blog post, demonstrating it is not hypervalent
In chemistry, a hypervalent molecule (the phenomenon is sometimes colloquially known as expanded Octet rule, octet) is a molecule that contains one or more main group elements apparently bearing more than eight electrons in their valence shells. P ...
and explaining its three-dimensional aromaticity
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See also
* Roman M. BalabinReferences
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