PAUL H. SCUDDER
Division of Natural Sciences, New College of Florida,
5800 Bay Shore Road, Sarasota, Florida 34243-2109
Voice: (941) 487-4392 FAX: (941) 487-4396 email: scudder@ncf.edu
EDUCATION:
1977, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin - Madison, Dissertation in Physical Organic Chemistry directed by Professor Barry M. Trost: "Studies of 7,8-Diazatetracyclo [3.3.0.02,4.03,6]oct-7-ene; 1,2-Diazacycloocta-2,4,6,8-tetraene; Siloxyvinylcyclopropane Rearrangement; Stereoselective Synthesis of Spirocyclobutanones."
1971, B.S. Stanford University - graduation with Departmental Honors in Chemistry. Research in photochemistry with Professor L. M. Stephenson
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
2015 University of Wisconsin – Madison, Honorary Fellow, working on instructional videos for Organic
2007 University of Wyoming, Academic Visitor, working on revising textbook
1998 University of Oxford, Great Britain, Visiting Academic in the Dyson Perrins Laboratory, research under the direction of Professor Jack E. Baldwin.
1993 University of Oxford, Great Britain, Visiting Academic in the Dyson Perrins Laboratory, research under the direction of Professor Jack E. Baldwin.
1985 Stanford University, Visiting Scholar, working on textbook.
1977-78 University of Oregon, Postdoctoral research on cyclophanes with Professor Virgil Boekelheide.
EMPLOYMENT:
1993- New College - Professor of Chemistry (2008-2014 Chair, Division of Natural Sciences)
1983-1993 Associate Professor of Chemistry, New College.
1978-1983 Assistant Professor of Chemistry, New College.
RESEARCH AREAS AND OTHER INTERESTS:
Primary area: Physical Organic Chemistry - Reaction Mechanisms and Theory
Others: Structure Elucidation, Instrumentation, Green Chemistry, Artificial Intelligence
AWARDS: State of Florida Teaching Incentive Program Award, 1994.
BOOKS:
Electron Flow in Organic Chemistry, Paul H. Scudder. 374 pages. John Wiley & Sons, ©1992
Electron Flow in Organic Chemistry: A Decision-Based Guide to Organic Mechanisms, 2nd Ed., Paul H. Scudder. 432 pages, ©2013 John Wiley & Sons
Solutions Manual for Electron Flow in Organic Chemistry, 2nd Ed., Paul H. Scudder. 114 pages, © 2013 John Wiley & Sons
These books summarize an alternative unique approach to teaching of Organic Chemistry that I developed over three decades at New College. It combines my interests in teaching and artificial intelligence, particularly the application of expert system design to the teaching of organic chemistry. The ability to formulate a reasonable hypothesis can be taught. We extract the essence of the field: the conceptual tools, the rules of thumb, the trends, the modes of analysis, everything that one would use to construct an expert system, and then teach this approach.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Magneto-structural relationships for radical cation and neutral pyridinophane structures with intrabridgehead nitrogen atoms. An integrated experimental and quantum mechanical study. Ffrancon Williams, Guo-Fei Chen, Saba M. Mattar, Paul H. Scudder, Dwight A Trieber II, Jeffery G. Saven, David C. Whritenour, Paola Cimino, Vincenzo Barone. J Phys Chem B. 2009, 113, 9026-34.
Study of the non-covalent interactions in Langmuir–Blodgett films: An interplay between π-π and dipole–dipole interactions. Zhexiong Tang, Malkiat S. Johal, Paul Scudder, Niña Caculitan, Rudolph J. Magyar, Sergei Tretiak, and Hsing-Lin Wang. Thin Solid Films 2007, 516, 58-66
In Situ Kinetics of Layer-by-Layer Assembled Nonlinear-Optical-Active Amphiphiles from Dynamic Surface Force Measurements. Niña G. Caculitan, Paul H. Scudder, Analiz Rodriguez, Joanna L. Casson, Hsing-Lin Wang, Jeanne M. Robinson, and Malkiat S. Johal; Langmuir 2004, 20, 8735-8739
A Decision-Based Course in Organic Chemistry, Paul H. Scudder, in "Instructors' Manual for Organic Chemistry Structure and Reactivity Fourth Edition" Seyhan Ege, Brian Coppola, Roberta Kleinman, and Peggy Zitek, 1999, 1-7, Houghton Mifflin Co.
'Generate and Select' as an Active-Learning Approach to Teaching Chemistry, Paul H. Scudder, in "Student-Active Science: Models of Innovation in College Science Teaching" Ann P. McNeal and Charlene D'Avanzo, editors, 1997, 337-351, Saunders College Publishing.
Database vs. Expert System Teaching Paradigms: Using Organic Reaction Mechanisms to Teach Chemical Intuition; Paul H. Scudder; J. Chem. Educ. 1997, 777-781.
A Chemical Model for the Activation of Pyruvate-Formate-Lyase; Jack E. Baldwin, David Brown, Paul H. Scudder, and Mark E. Wood; Tetrahedron Letters, 1995, 2105-2108.
Use of Reaction Cubes for Generation and Display of Multiple Mechanistic Pathways; Paul H. Scudder; J. Org. Chem., 1990, 55, 4238-4240.