John L. Bové

Professor of Chemistry (Chair) and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. Organic chemistry, environmental engineering and instrumental analysis.

Education

• Ph.D., Organic Chemistry, Case-Western Reserve University, 1973.
• M.S., Chemistry, Bucknell University, 1954; B.S., Bucknell University, 1949.

Current research interests

Asymmetric epoxidation of drug precursors; organic reaction mechanisms, including chemistry of aziridines and benzyne; environmentally related chemical reactions, including trace analyses of airborne contaminants; applications of pattern recognition methods to spectroscopic analysis.

Courses

General Chemistry (Ch 110)

Physical Principles of Chemistry (Ch 160)

Organic Chemistry I (Ch 231)

Organic Chemistry II (Ch 232)

Organic Chemistry Laboratory (Ch 233)

Advanced Organic Chemistry (Ch 333)

Physical Organic Chemistry (Ch 334)

Selected Topics in Chemistry (Ch 380)

Research Problem I-VIII (Ch 391-Ch398)

Selected publications and presentations

• "System and method for identifying unknown compounds using spectra pattern recognition ,'' J.L. Bove and S. Walfish, Patent No. 6,947,848 (2005).

• "Computer-aided pattern recognition of organic infrared spectra," S. Walfish, Timothy Sosnowski, Sara Shraibman, Lok Yung and John Bové, Internet Journal of Vibrational Spectroscopy 5, 2nd. ed. (2001).

• "Computer-Aided Pattern Recognition of Organic Infrared Spectra," presentation to the August 2000 national meeting of the American Chemical Society, with S. Walfish, Timothy Sosnowski, and Lok Yung.

• "The use of sonochemistry in the asymmetric epoxidation of substituted chalcones with sodium perborate tetrahydrate," Ruben Savizky, Nagi Suzuki, and John Bové, Tetrahedron: Asymmetry 9, 3967-3969 (1998).

• "Enantioselective Epoxidation by Means of Chiral Phase Transfer Catalysts and Chiral Bases in the Darzens Reaction and the Epoxidation of - Unsaturated Ketones," presentation to the 1998 NYC American Chemical Society's 46th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, with Tom Larrabee.

• "The Asymmetric Epoxidation of - Unsaturated Ketones," presentation to the 1998 NYC American Chemical Society's 46th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, with Ruben Savizky and Nagi Suzuki.

• "Rate and Yield Studies Involving the Oxidation of Ketones to Esters Using Sodium Perborate," presentation to the 1998 NYC American Chemical Society's 46th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, with Tom Schroeder.

• "Oxidation of aldehydes and ketones using alkali metal perborates,'' Patent No. 4,988,825 (1991).

• ``An application of pattern recognition and infrared spectroscopy to water analysis,'' Thomas Witelski, Phillip Ng, Jackie Ying, Joseph Lundy and John Bové, International Journal of Environmental Analytical Chemistry 44, 127 (1991).

Phone and e-mail information

(212) 353-4375 ; bove@cooper.edu.