Education:
B.A., College of St. Benedict (St. Joseph, MN, 1983)
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison (1988)

Current Position:
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry
Telephone: 287-6146
EMail: marietta.schwartz@umb.edu

Teaching Interests:
Organic chemistry, spectral interpretation, chemical education.

Research Interests:
Synthesis and study of cyclophanes with potential charge-transfer activity; synthesis of strained molecules such as paddlanes; organic spectral interpretation; chemical education. (See my research page for details.)

Representative Publications:

1. M.E. Haeg, B.J. Whitlock, and H.W. Whitlock, Jr. "Anthraquinone-Based Cyclophane Hosts: Synthesis and Complexation Studies" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1989, 111(2), 692-6.
2. Marietta Haeg Schwartz. "Charge-transfer Interactions in Cyclophanes" J. Incl. Phenom. Molec. Recog. 1990, 9, 1-35.
3. Joseph S. Alper, Robert I. Gelb, and Marietta H. Schwartz. "Complexes of Tri- and Tetra-Protonated Forms of 1,4,8,12-Tetraazacyclopentadecane with Chloride, Nitrate, Iodate, and Sulfate Ions in Aqueous Media: I. Formation Constants, Thermodynamic Properties, and Bonding Mechanisms." J. Incl. Phenom. Molec. Recog. 1991, 11, 333-48.
4. Joseph S. Alper, Robert I. Gelb, and Marietta H. Schwartz. "Complexes of Tri- and Tetra-Protonated Forms of 1,4,8,12-Tetraazacyclopentadecane with Chloride, Nitrate, Iodate, and Sulfate Ions in Aqueous Media: II. Analysis of the Underlying Experimental and Theoretical Assumptions. J. Incl. Phenom. Molec. Recog. 1991, 11, 349-60.
5. Marietta H. Schwartz. "Microscale Distillation - Calculations and Comparisons." J. Chem. Edu. 1992, 69(4), A127-8.
6. Stuart Rosenfeld, Marietta H. Schwartz, Janice Sieser, Jerry P. Jasinski, and Ernest S. Paight. "The Structure of 1,4-Bis(methoxycarbonyl)bicyclo[2.2.2]octa-2,5-diene." J. Chemical Research (S), 1992, 60-1.
7. Robert I. Gelb, Joseph S. Alper, and Marietta H. Schwartz. "Complexes of Tri- and Tetra-Protonated Forms of 1,4,7,10,13-Pentaazacyclopentadecane with Various Mono- and Di-Valent Anions in Aqueous Media." J. Phys. Org. Chem. 1992, 5, 443-50.
8. Marietta H. Schwartz, Stuart M. Rosenfeld, Christine I. Lee, Jerry P. Jasinski, and Edward H. Dardon. "The Structure of 9,10-Dihydro-9,10-bis(hydroxymethyl)-9,10-ethanoanthracene-11,12-anhydride." Tetrahedron Lett. 1992, 33(42), 6275-8.

Current Research Students:
David Perkins (Undergraduate Research)

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