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Philip Keehn

Professor Emeritus of Chemistry
Philip  Keehn
keehn@brandeis.edu
781-736-2541
Edison-Lecks Science Building, 126

Departments/Programs

Chemistry

Degrees

Yale University, Ph.D.
Yale University, M.S.
Yeshiva College, B.A.

Expertise

Synthetic methods, organic synthesis of strained rings, and theoretically interesting molecules. Host-guest complexes. Plant medicinals. Applications of NMR spectroscopy to organic systems. Photooxidation.

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Awards and Honors

Guest Editor, "SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA" (1989)

Fulbright Fellowship to lecture in Yugoslavia (1988)

Academia Sinica Lectureship, People's Republic of China (1987)

National Academy of Science East Europe Exchange Fellow in Yugoslavia (1985)

Alfred Bader Award (1980 - 1982)

Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, 5 years (1979 - 1984)

Sir Isacc Wolfson Visiting Professorship, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Isreal (1979 - 1980)

N.I.H. Postdoctoral Fellow (1969 - 1971)

N.I.H. Predoctoral Fellow (1966 - 1968)

Scholarship

Keehn,Philip, co-ed. Stuart Rosenfeld. Cyclophanes I & II; Organic Chemistry. Academic Press, 1983.

Keehn,Philip, co-au E. Grunwald & D. F. Devor. Megawatt Infrared Laser Chemistry. John Wiley & Sons, 1978.



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