John Thayer

Biography

John S. Thayer is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Cincinnati. He is an inorganic/organometallic chemist whose research interests involve the formation, reaction and cleavage of aqueous metal(loid)-carbon bonds on solid surfaces ("Organometallic Chemistry at the Water's Edge"). Professor Thayer received a BA degree from Cornell University in 1960 and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1964, where he worked with Professor Robert West on the synthesis of organosilicon azides. After a two-year stint at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, he joined the University of Cincinnati faculty in 1966 and has been there ever since. He has held Visiting Faculty positions at Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, The National Bureau of Standards, and Leicester Polytechnic Institute (now deMountford University). He has investigated methyl transfer reactions in water, the use of aqueous organometals in dissolution/cycling of metals, and is now investigating electron-transfer reactions of dissolved organo derivatives of Hg, Sn and Pb with metal surfaces.

Research Interest

* Reaction of Organometals with Metal Surfaces, especially electron transfer reactions for use in removing toxic organometals and for selection disso- lution of metals from alloys * Aqueous Alkyl Halides and Metals * Aqueous Alkyl Halides and Binary Metal Compounds