Dowd, Paul

C. J. Cramer, J. Chem. Soc. Perkin 2 1998, 1007. This paper contains an appreciation of the important contrihutions of Paul Dowd to the study of trimethylenemethane and tetraamethylenee thane. 

Cramer was drawn into the benzyne problem through collaborations with Professor Bob Squires. Cramer had long been interested in carbenes and related species, having worked on nitreniums with Professor Dan Falvery and trimethylenemethane with Professor Paul Dowd. In 1994, Cramer had applied DFT to XH2 species where X was B, C, and N. But the collaboration with... 

Paul Dowd (1936-1996) was born in Brockton, Massachusetts. He did his undergraduate work at Harvard University and received a Ph.D. from Columbia University. He was a professor of chemistry at Harvard University and was a professor of chemistry from 1970 to 1996 at the University of Pittsburgh. 

Samuel, S.P., Jain, N., O Dowd, F., Paul, T., Kashanin, D., Gerard, V.A., Gun ko, Y.K., Prina-Mello, A., Volkov, Y. Multifactorial determinants that govern nanoparticle uptake by human endothelial cells under flow. Int. J. Nanomedicine 7, 2943-2956... 

Paul Dowd, University of Pittsburgh Mark Forman, Saint Joseph s University Felix Goodson, West Chester University Kenneth Hartman, Geneva College Michael S. Leonard, Washington and Jefferson College... 

Paul Dowd, from the University of Pittsburgh, discovered that the vitamin Kj hydroquinone anion reacts with oxygen (O2) to give the peroxide anion intermediate 1, which is converted to compound 2, and then to what is referred to as "vitamin Kj base."This species deprotonates a glutamate side chain leading to carboxylation via reaction with CO2. 

The life and work of Paul Dowd (1936-96), one of the major contributors to the understanding of the chemistry of organic Biradicals, has been reviewed. ... 

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