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Steven M. Bachrach is an organic chemist who took up the position of Dean of Science at
Bachrach has written a textbook about computational organic chemistry, the second edition of which was published by
Monmouth University
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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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from the University of California, Berkeley
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Career
Bachrach is an Organic Chemist specialising in computational organic chemistry and began his career at Northern Illinois University, where he earned a Professorship. 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 took up the position of Dean of Science in 2016 atMonmouth University
Monmouth University is a private university in West Long Branch, New Jersey. Founded in 1933 as Monmouth Junior College, it became Monmouth College in 1956 and Monmouth University in 1995 after receiving its charter.
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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 into ...
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 and explaining its three-dimensional aromaticity
In chemistry, aromaticity is a chemical property of cyclic ( ring-shaped), ''typically'' planar (flat) molecular structures with pi bonds in resonance (those containing delocalized electrons) that gives increased stability compared to saturate ...
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See also
* Roman M. BalabinReferences
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