MS Chemistry, David M. Drab

dmdrab@bama.ua.edu

 

 

Name:                                                 David M. Drab

 

Date and Place of Birth:                    April 19, 1972; Berwyn, IL

 

Schools Attended and Degrees:

 

      1990-1994:                                    Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, Department of Psychology,
BA in Psychology, Advisor Dr. Robert Brush

 

      2001-2003:                                    The University at Buffalo (SUNY), Buffalo, NY, Department of Chemistry,

                                                            BS in Chemistry, Advisors Dr. Michael Detty and Dr. Joseph Gardella

 

      2003-2005:                                    The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, Department of Chemistry,

                                                            MS in Chemistry, Advisor Dr. Len MacGillivray

 

      2005-present:                                 The University of Alabama / Center for Green Manufacturing, Tuscaloosa, AL;
Research Assistant, PhD Candidate in Organic Chemistry, Advisor Dr. R. D. Rogers

 

Experiences:

 

      2005-present:                                 Energetic Ionic Liquids and Nano-Ionic Liquids
Graduate Research Assistant, The University of Alabama,

                                                            Center for Green Manufacturing, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA

 

      2003-2005:                                    Solid-state Organic Photochemistry
Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant Department of Chemistry,

                                                            The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA

 

      2001-2003:                                    Metals Analyst
Severn Trent Laboratories, Buffalo, NY, USA

 

      Summer 2002:                                Solid-state Organic Photochemistry
REU Summer Research Internship, Department of Chemistry,

                                                            The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA

     

      Summer 2001:                                Polymer Synthesis and Characterization for Fiber Optics

                                                            REU Summer Research Internship, Polymer Program

                                                            The University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA

     

Foreign languages:                            English-fluent

                                                            Spanish-basic

 

Current Project(s) and Funding:

 

                  AFOSR research grant F49620-03-1-0357
“Energetic Ionic Liquids: Fundamental Studies Relating Target Structures and Key Physical Properties”

                 

 

Awards:

 

      May 2003                                      Outstanding Achievement Award in Organic Chemistry, The University at Buffalo (SUNY)

                                                            Buffalo, NY

 

      August 2001:                                  “E2 Industrial Performance Award”, Severn Trent Laboratories, Buffalo, NY 

 

 

Statistics:

 

      A.                 Publications: 2

      B.                 Presentations before National and International Meetings: 3 contributed to

 

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Publications:

 

1.            Drab, D. M.; Smiglak, M.; Rogers, R. D. “Should the Concepts of Green Chemistry be Restrictive or Prescriptive? The Greener Synthesis of High-Performance, Energetic Ionic Liquid Materials,” Chim. Oggi 2006, 24, 27.

2.            Frisčič, T.; Drab, D. M.; MacGillivray, L. R. “A Test for Homology: Photoactive Crystalline Assemblies Involving Linear Templates Based on a Homologous Series of Phloroglucinolsm,” Org. Lett. 2004, 6(25), 4647.

 

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Posters and Presentations before National and International Meetings and Workshops:

 

1.            M. Smiglak, D. M. Drab, T. Wilson, W. M. Reichert, R. D. Rogers, H. Yang, D. Zhang, K. Kirichenko, and A. R. Katritzky, “Strategies Toward the Design of Energetic Ionic Liquids: Nitro- and Nitrile­ Substituted Imidazolium Salts,” Presented by M. Smiglak before the Ionic Liquids Workshop: Background, State-of-the-Art, and Academic/Industrial Applications (2006), Tuscaloosa, AL.

2.            M. Smiglak, D. M. Drab, T. Wilson, W. M. Reichert, R. D. Rogers, H. Yang, D. Zhang, K. Kirichenko, and A. R. Katritzky, “Strategies Toward the Design of Energetic Ionic Liquids: Azolate-Based Salts,” Presented by M. Smiglak before the Ionic Liquids Workshop: Background, State-of-the-Art, and Academic/Industrial Applications (2006), Tuscaloosa, AL.

3.            M. Smiglak, D. M. Drab., C. C. Hines, W. M. Reichert, R. D. Rogers, K. Kirichenko, and A. Vincek, “Halide free synthesis of energetic azolium azolate salts,” Poster presented by M. Smiglak, before the 232st ACS National Meeting (2006), San Francisco, CA, Abstract Phys 522.

 

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