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Dr William Acree Jr.
Faculty
Professor – Analytical Chemistry
Associate Chair and Graduate Advisor
PhD
CHEM 162
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Dr. Acree received his B.S. in 1975, his M.Sc. in 1977 and his Ph.D. in 1981, all
from the University of Missouri-Rolla. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University
of Kansas in 1980. After teaching at Kent State University for 6 years, he joined
the UNT faculty in 1988. Dr. Acree was a co-Editor of the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics,
and is a Fellow of both The Royal Society of Chemistry and the International Union
of Pure and Applied Chemistry.
Research Area:
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Analytical Chemistry
Research
- Development of expressions for determining solute-solvent association constants from measured solute solubility and chromatographic retention times in binary solvent mixtures.
- Design of gas chromatographic probe methods for investigating properties of binary nematic liquid crystalline stationary phases.
- Characterization of room temperature ionic liquids using various chromatographic and spectrophotometric probe methods.
- Development of linear free energy relationships to describe solute partitioning between immiscible liquid phases.
- Development of experimental methodology for obtaining solute descriptors from measured partitioning and chromatographic retention data.
- Development of linear free energy relationships to describe properties of chemical, biological and pharmaceutical importance.