Environmental Sciences Ph.D. Program

Tennessee Technological University
P.O. Box 5055
Cookeville, TN  38505
931.372.3957
Dr. Dale Ensor, Director


Assistant Professor 
Chemistry

Research Interests

Area of Specialization

Green Chemistry.  Synthetic preparation and characterization of ionic liquids.  

Education

BS – Winona State University, 1985 (ACS)

PhD – University of North Dakota, 1989

Experience

1994 – present: Assistant Professor, Tennessee Tech University

1992 – 1994: Dreyfus Fellow, Southern Methodist University

1990 – 1992: Research Associate, Ben May Institute, University of Chicago

Recent Publications

Charlotte Morgan and Daniel J. Swartling, "Lemon Batteries Revisited - The Lemon-Powered Calculator," Journal of Chemical Education, 75, 181-182, 1998.

Daniel J. Swartling, Michael J. Fry, Matt B. Morgan, and Edward R. Biehl, "The Synthesis of Substituted 10-Cyanoanthracene-9-isothiocyanates for Use as Fluorescent Dye Labeling Reagents," SAAS Bulletin: Biochem. & Biotech., 10, 25-32, 1997.

Wei Han, Dan Swartling, Stacey Jeffrey, Hongming Zhang, Marcus Hansen, and Ed Biehl, "Aryne Adducts of 1-Bromo and 4-Bromopyrenes," Synthesis, 827-830, 1995.

Michael J. Bennett, Susan Powell, Daniel J. Swartling and K. Michael Gibson, "Tiglylglycine excreted in urine in disorders of isoleucine metabolism and the respiratory chain measured by stable isotope dilution GC-MS," Clin. Chem. (Washington D. C.), 40, 1879-83, 1994.

Marcus Hansen, Subhash P. Khanapure, Michael Fry, Dan Swartling, and Edward R. Biehl. "Investigations of the reaction of 2-bromo-1, 4-dimethoxynaphthalene and 9- bromophenanthrene with nitriles under aryne-forming conditions," Synthesis, 957-60, 1994.

Dan Swartling, Mike Fry, Matt Morgan, Ed Biehl, Jan Balzarini and Erik DeClercq, "The synthesis, cytotoxicity and fluorescence studies of 3'-amino-2',3'-dideoxythymidine/substituted 10-cyano-9-isothiocyanatoanthracene adducts," Nucleosides and Nucleotides, 13, 2013-19, 1994.

Subhash P. Khanapure, Wei Han, Dan J. Swartling and Edward R. Biehl, "Synthesis of fluorine substituted anthraquinones and aza-anthraquinones," J. Fluorine Chemistry, 68, 131 –4, 1994.

Donald E. Bergstrom, Andrew W. Mott, Erik De Clercq, Jan Balzarini and Daniel J. Swartling,

" 3',3'-Difluoro-3'-deoxythymidine: Comparison of Anti-HIV Activity to 3'-Fluoro-3' deoxythymidine," J. Medicinal Chemistry, 35, 3369 – 72, 1992.

Recent Presentations

Dan Swartling, Laurie Ray, Shauna Compton and Dale Ensor, "Preliminary Investigation into Modification of Alkylated Imidazoles to Improve Extraction Parameters" American Chemical Society National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, March 1998.

Charlotte Morgan and Daniel J. Swartling, "The Synthesis of Sulfur and Selenium Containing Indole Analogs for Use as Substrates for the Enzymatic Synthesis of Tryptophan Bioisosteres ", poster presented at the 17th International Congress of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, San Francisco, CA, August 24-29, 1997. Abstract 2732.

Daniel J. Swartling, "Non-Ionic Fluorescent Anthracenes Synthesized via Benzyne Chemistry",

talk presented at the Tennessee Academy of Sciences, Sewanee, The University of the South,

Nov. 23, 1996.

Charlotte Morgan and Daniel J. Swartling, "Lemon Batteries Revisited - The Lemon-Powered Calculator", poster presented at the Tennessee Academy of Sciences, Sewanee, The University of the South, Nov. 23, 1996.

Charlotte Morgan and Daniel J. Swartling, "Lemon Batteries Revisited - The Lemon-Powered Calculator", poster presented at the 212th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Orlando, FL, August 25-29, 1996. Abstracts CHED 60, CHED 131.

Laura J. Waters and Daniel J. Swartling, "The Synthesis of Alkylated Purines as Precursors to Purine/Boron Cluster Adducts", poster presented at the 211th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, New Orleans, LA, March 25, 1996. Abstract CHED 183.

Narayan Hosmane and Dan Swartling, "1. Tatoo Pigments: Are They Safe? 2. The Chemical and Biological Aspects of Using Organic Compounds as Epidermal Pigments", lecture presented at the 1994 National Cosmetic Tatoo Symposium, Dallas, Texas, May 16, 1994.

Contact Information:

E-Mail:  dswart@tntech.edu  

Personal Web Page

Mailing Address:

Tennessee Technological University
Water Resource Center
P.O. Box 5055
Cookeville, TN  38505

Telephone:  931-372-3431 (voice-mail available)


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