Resume

• 1994

  Arkansas eastmand Division of Eastman Chemical Company

  Lyon College

  Darton State College

  Process improvement and development chemist

  Arkansas eastmand Division of Eastman Chemical Company

  Darton State College

  Albany

  GA

  I am chair of the department and a full-time chemistry faculty member.

  Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chair of Chemistry and Biology Department

  Batesville AR

  2011 Williamson Prize for Faculty Excellence in Teaching

  Lyon College

  Batesville

  AR.\n2009 Academic Adviser of the Year

  Lyon College.\n2007 Received tenure and promoted to associate professor\n2004 Arkansas State University Affiliates of the American Chemical Society Award in Green Chemistry

  \nArkansas State University

  Jonesboro

  AR.\n2002 Phi Mu Professor of the Year

  Lyon College

  Batesville

  AR.

  Associate Professor of Chemistry

  Lyon College

• 1989

  Ph.D.

  Chenmistry

  Alpha Chi Sigma\nAmerican Chemical Society\nChi Beta Phi\nArkansas Academy of Science

  University of Tennessee-Knoxville

• 20

  Inorganic Chemistry

  Organic Chemistry

  Specialty Chemicals

  Student Development

  Chemicals

  Polymers

  Student Affairs

  UV/Vis

  HPLC

  Biology

  Higher Education

  Teaching

  R&D

  Computational Chemistry

  Science

  Research

  Analytical Chemistry

  Chemistry

  Publications

  (1) “The Diels-Alder Reaction: Synthesis of 2

  5-Triptycenediol

  ” Pace

  R. D.; Bobbitt

  J.; Goss

  J

  J. Chem. Educ.

  manuscript in preparation.\n\n(2) “Response Surface Optimization of a Microwave Assisted Perkin Reaction

  ” Pace

  R. D.; McWilliams

  L.

  2006 Proceedings of the Arkansas Academy of Science

  96.\n\n(3) “The Finkelstein Reaction: Quantitative Reaction Kinetics of an SN2 Reaction Using Nonaqueous Conductivity

  ” Pace

  R. D.; Regmi

  Y. J. Chem. Educ.

  1344 – 1348.\n\n(4) “Response Surface Optimization of a New Solventless Microwave-Assisted Malonic Ester Synthesis

  ” Pace

  R. D.; McLaurin

  P.

  Proceedings of the Arkansas Undergraduate Research Conference

  186.\n\n(5) \"N-t-Butoxycarbonyl Protection of Primary and Secondary Amines in the Hydroboration Reaction: Synthesis of Amino Alcohols

  ” Kabalka

  G. W.; Li

  N-S; Pace

  R. D.

  Synth. Commun.

  25(14) 2135.\n\n(6) \"The Allylboration of -Amino Ketones

  ” Kabalka

  G. W.; Pace

  R. D.

  J. Org. Chem.

  60(15)

  4838. \"Evidence for the Formation of Acylboronate Intermediates in the Carbonylation Reaction of Organoboranes

  ” Kabalka

  G. W.; Gotsick

  T. J.; Pace

  R. D.

  Nan-Sheng Li

  Organometal.

  13(12)

  5163.\n\n(7) \"Allylboronic Ester Synthesis: A Mechanistic Study

  ” Kabalka

  G. W.; Pace

  R. D.

  Tet. Lett.

  783. \n\n(8) “Palladium Assisted Transfer Reduction of alpha

  beta-Unsaturated Nitroalkenes Using Ammonium Formate

  ” Kabalka

  G. W.; Pace

  R. D.; Wadgaonkar

  P. P.

  Synth. Commun.

  2453.\n

  Pace

  During my seven-year career (1994 – 2001) as a development chemist at the Arkansas Division of Eastman Chemical Company

  I authored over 20 technical reports and completed 63 process improvement projects. Some of my additional accomplishments include

  providing technical support on start-up teams for two processes

  serving on many process improvement and concept development teams

  mentoring two newly hired chemists

  leading the effort to automate five development laboratories with the CAMILE chemical process control technology

  and leading efforts to popularize statistical design of experiments at the Arkansas plant site as well as at area academic institutions. My industrial record is evidence of my industriousness

  innovative thinking

  team working skills

  and management of multiple simultaneous projects.\n\nSince 2001

  I have worked in academe as a professor of chemistry (tenured 2007) at Lyon College in Batesville

  AR. I was awarded Lyon's highest academic award in 2011

  the Williamson Prize for \nFaculty Teaching Excellence. I have served (2007-2010) as the senior faculty mentor and director of the First-Year Experience. Although my primary responsibility is teaching organic chemistry (2nd-year and advanced)

  I also teach instrumental analysis

  general chemistry

  introduction to chemical research

  and junior and senior seminars on rotation. Additionally

  I have taught trigonometry regularly over the past five years.

  R. David