JOHN M. LYON

University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
Dept. of Natural and Applied Sciences
Chemistry Program
Office: Laboratory Sciences Bldg., room 419
Phone: 920-465-2266
e-mail: LYONJ@UWGB.EDU

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Rutgers University, 1983
B.S., Chemistry, Lehigh University, 1977

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Natural and Applied Sciences University of Wisconsin-Green Bay	1992 - present
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry Hofstra University	1985 - 1992
Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Department of Chemistry Stanford University	1983 - 1985
Teaching Assistant, Department of Chemistry Rutgers University	1978 - 1983
Research Assistant, Department of Chemistry Rutgers University	1979 - 1983
Project Chemist, DeSoto Inc., Des Plaines, Illinois	1977 -1978

 

RECENT RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

The study of the hydrodechlorination of chlorinated aromatic compounds using palladium modified carbon electrodes; the reactivity of transition metal complexes with poly-dentate ligands in high oxidation states as catalysts for the oxidation of water and the selective oxidation of organic substrates.

 

PRESENTATIONS

Molecular Modeling in Advanced Inorganic Chemistry. UWGB American Chemical Society Great Lakes Regional Meeting, June 1995.

Electrocatalytic Oxidation of Organic and Inorganic Substrates with Nickel and Iron Complexes. 206th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, August 1993.

Electrochemistry and Kinetics of Hydrolysis of Nickel Complexes of Pentadentate Ligands. American Chemical Society Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting, May 1990.

 

PUBLICATIONS

S.S. Isied, C.G. Kuehn, J.M. Lyon, and R.B. Merrifield. SPECIFIC PEPTIDE SEQUENCE FOR METAL ION COORDINATION. I. SOLID-PHASE SYNTHESIS OF CYCLO-(GLY-HIS)3. J.Am. Chem. Soc. 104, 2632-2634 (1982).

S.S. Isied, J. Lyon, and A. Vassilian. PEPTIDE FORMATION IN THE PRESENCE OF METAL ION PROTECTING GROUPS. II. DETERMINATION OF THE OPTICAL PURITY OF AMINO ACIDS AND PEPTIDES BOUND TO THE PENTAAMINE COBALT(III)COMPLEX. Int. J. Peptide Protein Res. 19, 354-360 (1982).

S.S. Isied, J. Lyon, A. Vassilian, and G. Worosila. PEPTIDE FORMATION IN THE PRESENCE OF METAL ION PROTECTING GROUPS. III. THE SEPARATION OF(NH3)5Co(III)-AMINO ACID AND PEPTIDES BY REVERSE PHASE LIQUIDCHROMATOGRAPHY. J. Liquid Chromatogr. 5(3), 537-547 (1982).

S.S. Isied, A. Vassilian, and J.M. Lyon. PEPTIDE FORMATION IN THE PRESENCE OF METAL ION PROTECTING GROUPS. IV. SYNTHESIS OF PENTA- AND HEXA-PEPTIDE SEQUENCES WITH THE PENTAAMINE COBALT(III) COMPLEX. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 104, 3910-3916 (1982).

M.J. Clarke, K.F. Coffey, H.J. Perpall, and J. Lyon. ANALYSIS OF METALLONUCLEOSIDE HYDROLYSIS BY HIGH-PRESSURE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY. Analytical Biochemistry 122, 404-411 (1982).

J. M. Lyon and E. Gunther. ELECTROCHEMISTRY AND KINETICS OF HYDROLYSIS OF THE [1,4-BIS(2-PYRIDYLMETHYL)-1,4,7-TRIAZACYCLONONANE]NICKEL(II) ION. J. Coord. Chem. 34, 13-22 (1995).

J. M. Lyon. ELECTROCHEMICAL DEHALOGENATION OF CHLORINATED AROMATIC COMPOUNDS. To be Submitted to Water Research.