Dr. John Pladziewicz Professor ChemistryDepartmentChair

Education

• Dr. Pladziewicz joined the Chemistry Department in 1973.
• Post-Doctoral fellow, Stanford University with Henry Taube and E. E. van Tamelen, 1971-1973
• Ph.D., Iowa State University, Inorganic Chemistry with James Espenson, 1971
• B.S., University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 1967

Research Interests

• Understanding the relationship between the rates of single electron-transfer reactions and the various structural and energy factors that contribute to the electron-transfer free energy barrier
• Recent work has focused on
  • Redox reactions of metalloproteins with small chiral coordination complexes
  • Redox reactions of hydrazines and their radical cations with other hydrazines, aromatic amines, and substituted ferrocenes
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Professional Experience and Memberships

• Chemistry Department Chair, UWEC, 1999 to present
• Research Corporation Grants Advisory Committee, 2000 to present
• Visiting Professor, Chemical Center, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, October-December, 1997
• Consultant to Cray Research Inc., Chemical Etching Technologies, 1994
• Committee of Visitors, Member, Triennial Oversight Review of NSF Chemistry Division, 1992
• Visiting Fellow, Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra, March-July 1991
• Consultant to 3M Company, Information and Imaging Technologies Sector, 1990, 1991
• Visiting Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, September-November 1990
• Petroleum Research Fund Advisory Board, Member, 1988-1991
• Visiting Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Minnesota-Minneapolis, January-June 1983
• Visiting Scientist, Stanford Research Institute International, June-August 1981
• American Chemical Society, Member

Professional Citations of Merit

• University of Wisconsin- Eau Claire Excellence in Scholarship Award, 1996
• University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society Outstanding Freshman Teacher, 1994
• Wisconsin CASE Professor of the Year, 1993
• University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Distinguished Alumni Award, 1989
• University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire School of Arts and Sciences Effective Teaching Recognition, 1987
• American Chemical Society-Central Wisconsin Section Award for Outstanding Contribution to Chemistry, 1987

Teaching Specialties

• Inorganic Chemistry
• General Chemistry

Publications

Dr. Pladziewicz has published on electron transfer reactions of metalloproteins and of cation radical-neutral exchanges.