Dr. Dave G. Seapy

SENIOR PROFESSOR

Office Number: 357
Office Phone: +974 423-0272
Fax Number: 4230060
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INTEREST AREAS
A professor from Eastern University in Pennsylvania, where he developed a chemistry undergraduate research program and taught for ten years, Dave Seapy is an accomplished organic chemist and researcher. He has diverse experience developing undergraduate chemistry curricula that are integrated with undergraduate research.

• Design and synthesis of molecular machines that utilize photoisomerization switching technology
• Synthetic methodology including development of new palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions
• Photoinduced electron-transfer mechanistic-studies of rigid bridged-ring systems

EDUCATION

• Doctor of Philosophy, Phyisical Organic Chemistry, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1983
• Master of Science, Organic Chemistry, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1981
• Bachelor of Science, Chemistry, University of California at Davis, 1978

EXPERIENCE

• Senior Professor, Texas A&M University at Qatar, 2007-present
• Professor, Eastern University, Pennsylvania, 2003-2007
• Visiting Research Scholar, University of Pennsylvania, 2005
• Associate Professor, Eastern University, Pennsylvania, 1997-2003
• Founding Member of Chemistry Faculty, Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman, 1988-1997
• Assistant Professor, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, 1984-1988
  Visiting Assistant Professor, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL 1983-1984

RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Seapy, D. G., "Triethyloxonium Tetrafluoroborate (2008)," Encyclopedia of Reactions for Organic Synthesis (Online), John Wiley & Sons Ltd., www.mrw.interscience.wiley.com/eros/, DOI:10.1002/047084289X.rt223.

Palladium-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reaction of Alkenyl Bromides with Potassium Alkyltrifluoroborates. G. A. Molander, J. Ham, and D. G. Seapy, Tetrahedron 63, 768-775 (2007).

Photoinduced Electron Transfer Variables: Rigidity or Orientation? D. G. Seapy, S. S. H. Al Mahmoodi, N. M. M. Al Belushi, and F. A. M. Al Mjeni, J. Photochem. Photobiol. A: Chem., 80, 241 249 (1994).