Education:
B.S., Marietta College (Ohio, 1963)

Current Position:
Instructor, Chemistry
Office: S-1-083
Telephone: 287-6137
EMail: cerny@umbsky.cc.umb.edu

Teaching Interests:
Organic Chemistry.

Research Interests:
Reaction mechanisms involving anti-aromatic intermediates.

Representative Publications:

1. "Phenyl Azide from the Reaction of Phenylhydrazine with Thionyl Chloride. Preparation of N-Thionylbenzylhydrazine and of N-Thionyl-beta-phenethylhydrazine." L.B. Pearce, M.H. Feingold, K.F. Cerny, and J.-P. Anselme, J. Org. Chem., 44, 1881 (1979).
2. Paper #34 ORGANIC: "Formation of Phenyl Azide from the Reaction of Phenylhydrazine and Thionyl Chloride," L.B. Pearce, K.F. Cerny, and J.-P. Anselme. At the Eighth Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, June 25-28, 1978.
3. Same paper (above) at the Annual Student Day of the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society, May 11, 1978.
4. "The Professor's Side of the Story: Teaching Chemistry to a Severely Disabled Student," Kenneth Cerny and Leverett Zompa, Access to Science, 2, 1978.

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