DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY

David A. Owen

 

B.S.-University of Illinois
Ph.D.-University of California-Riverside

Professor
Inorganic/Organic Chemistry
Office:  417 Blackburn
Phone:  270-809-6699
E-mail:  david.owen@murraystate.edu

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Director of the Chemical Services Laboratory

 

Dr. Owen serves as Director of the Chemical Services Laboratory, which is part of the Center for Reservoir Research, and has research interests ranging from synthetic inorganic and organic chemistry, through heterocycles, the solid state, and surface chemistry, to applications of microcomputers to detection systems and undergraduate instruction. He has received research support through The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), Research Corporation, the R. T. Vanderbilt Co. Inc., the Southern Regional Education Board, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

 

Selected Publications

Loganathan, B.G., Sajwan, K.S., Richarson, J.P., Chetty, C.S. and Owen, D.A. 2001. Persistent organochlorine concentrations in sediment and fish from Atlantic coastal and brackish waters off Savannah, Georgia, USA. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 42, 246-250.

Loganathan, B.G. Kawano, M., Sajwan, K.S. and Owen, D.A. "Extractable organohalogens (EOX) in sediment and mussel tissues collected from the Kentucky Lake and Kentucky Dam Tailwater". Toxicol. Environ. Chem. 2001, 79, 233-242.

Loganathan, B.G., Kannan, K., Sajwan, K. and Owen, D.A. "Butyltin compounds in freshwater ecosystems. In. Persistent, Bioaccumulative and Toxic Chemicals 1:   Fate and Exposure (Editors: R.L. Lipnick, J.L.M. Hermens, K.C. Jones andD.C.G. Muir).  American Chemical Society Monographs Series #772, Washington, DC., pp 134-149, 2000. 

Loganathan, B.G., Kannan, K., Senthilkumar, S., Sickel, J. and Owen, D.A. "Occurrence of butyltin residues in sediment and mussel tissues from the lowermost Tennessee River and Kentucky Lake, U.S.A". Chemosphere 1999, 39, 2401-2408.

Duobinis-Gray, L. F.; Urban, E. A.; Sickel, J. B.; Owen, D. A.; Maddox, W. E. "Aspidogasterid (Tremotoda) Parasites of Unioid (Bivalva) Mulluscs in Kentucky Lake," J. Helinthol. Soc. 1991, 58(2), 167-170. 

Maddox, W. E.; Duobinis-Gray, L. F.; Owen, D. A.; Sickel, J. B. "X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis of Trace Metals in the Annual Growth Layers of Freshwater Mussel Shells," Adv. in X-Ray Analysis, 1990, 33, 665-670. 

Slocum, D. W.; Duraj, S.; Matusz, M.; Cmarik, J. L.; Simpson, K. M.; Owen, D. A. "Models for Highly Phenylated Transition Metal-Containing Polymers; Derivatives of the Pentaphenylcyclopentadienyl Ligand, in Metal-Containing Polymeric Systems," J. E. Sheats; C. E. Carraher, Jr.; C .U. Pittman, Eds., Plenum Press, New York, 1985, pp. 59-68. 

Slocum, D. W.; Duraj, S.; Bencini, J.; Webber, K.; Noble, R.; Kuchel K.; Hodgman, M.; Owen, D. A. "Eta-x to Eta x-y Rearrangements and Their Potential Role in Catalyst Design," in Proceedings of the China, Japan & U.S. Organometallic Chemistry Seminar, Van-Nostrand-Reinholt, Inc., 1982, pp. 901-922. 

Selected Presentations

 Owen, D. A.; Turner, D. E. "Broad-based Enhancement of Undergraduate Laboratory Instruction at Murray State University (MSU) Utilizing a GC/MS/LC Instrument Array," Abstracts, 206th Annual American Chemical Society Meeting, August 26, 1993, EDUC paper #241. 

Owen, D. A.; Garland, D. J. "Poly- lithiation of 0.0-Ferrocenophane and Subsequent Reactions Leading to Formation of its 3,3'-Derivatives," 194th American Chemical Society National Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, August 31, 1987.

 

 

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