Dwaine O. Cowan

Dwaine O. Cowan
Born25 November 1935
Fresno, California, U.S.
DiedMay 5, 2006(2006-05-05) (aged 70)
Clovis, California, U.S.
Alma materFresno State College
Stanford University
Known forMolecular Solids
Organometallic Chemistry
Photochemistry
Metallocenes
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
InstitutionsJohns Hopkins University
Doctoral advisorHarry Stone Mosher
Other academic advisorsGeorge S. Hammond
Doctoral studentsRichard D. McCullough

Dwaine O. Cowan (25 November 1935 – 5 May 2006) was an American chemist. He was a professor of chemistry at Johns Hopkins University. He is best known for his pioneering work in the field of organic conductors.[1][2][3] His other research interests included organometallic chemistry, organic photochemistry,[4] organic chemistry, metallocenes[5] and the synthesis of heterocyclic compounds containing sulfur, selenium, and tellurium.[6]

  1. ^ Cowan, Dwaine (February 1973). "Electron transfer in a new highly conducting donor-acceptor complex". J. Am. Chem. Soc. 95 (3): 948–949. doi:10.1021/ja00784a066.
  2. ^ Cowan, Dwaine (1990). Advanced Organic Solid State Materials: Volume 173 (MRS Proceedings). New York, New York: Materials Research Society. ISBN 978-1-107-41022-0.
  3. ^ Gubser DU, Fuller WW, Poehler TO, Cowan DO, Lee M, Potember RS, Chiang LY, Bloch AN., Magnetic susceptibility and resistive transitions of superconducting (TMTSF)Cl2O4: Critical magnetic fields, Physical Review B. 1981, 24: 478-480.
  4. ^ Cowan, Dwaine (1976). Elements of organic photochemistry (First ed.). Plenum Press. ISBN 0306308215.
  5. ^ Cowan, Dwaine O.; LeVanda, Carole; Park, Jongsei; Kaufman, Frank (May 2002). "Organic solid state. VIII. Mixed-valence ferrocene chemistry". Accounts of Chemical Research. 6 (1): 1–7. doi:10.1021/ar50061a001.
  6. ^ Klaus Bechgaard, Dwaine O. Cowan and Aaron N. Bloch, Synthesis of the organic conductor tetramethyltetraselenofulvalenium 7,7,8,8-tetracyano-p-quinodimethanide (TMTSF–TCNQ)[4,4′,5,5′-tetramethyl-Δ2,2′-bis-1,3-diselenolium 3,6-bis-(dicyanomethylene)cyclohexadienide], J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1974,0, 937-938.