Paul L. Gaus

Paul L. Gaus is a Professor of Chemistry Emeritus. He grew up in Delaware, Ohio and received his B.S. from Miami University in 1971 and his Ph.D. from Duke University in 1975. After a two-year postdoctral appointment at SUNY at Stony Brook, he came to Wooster in 1977. He taught introductory and inorganic chemistry, and advanced inorganic chemistry, plus Junior Independent Study, and First-Year Seminar. His research interests include anionic transition metal hydrides as selective reducing agents, and the synthesis and characterization of classical and organo transition metal compounds. He has taken research leaves at Texas A&M University, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and The Ohio State University, and has been a visiting researcher at the University of Illinois. Paul was a member of the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry's "Ad Hoc Committee on the Undergraduate Inorganic Curriculum, " the ACS Examination Institute's Committee to Write the 1991 Version of the ACS Standardize Exam in Inorganic Chemistry," and the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry's Solid-State Subdivision Committee on Curriculum. Paul also is a co-author of the text "Basic Inorganic Chemistry," by Cotton, Wilkinson, and Gaus, which has been translated into five foreign languages. He enjoys fishing, sailing, photography, target shooting, and camping, and studies Civil War history, and Navajo and Amish cultures.

Paul continues to pursue his interests in literature and his fourth mystery novel about Amish culture, "Cast a Blue Shadow; An Ohio Amish Mystery," was published by Ohio University Press in 2003. The other books in the series are "Clouds without Rain" (2001), "Broken English" (2000), and "Blood of the Prodigal" (1999).

Recent Publications:

S. G. Shore, G. T. Jordan, IV, J. Liu, F.-C. Lui, E. E. Meyers, and P. L. Gaus, Cyclic Organoborohydrate Anions: Hydride Transfer Reactions in The Reduction of Metal Carbonyls and Organic Functional Groups; Reactions with Zirconocene and Hafnocene Dichlorides, Advances in Boron Chemistry, W. Siebert, Ed.; The Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, 1997, pp 84-91.

F. A. Cotton, G. Wilkinson and P. L. Gaus; Basic Inorganic Chemistry, Third Edition; John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1995, 838 pages.

P. L. Gaus; Student's Solution Manual to Accompany Basic Inorganic Chemistry, Third Edition; John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1995, 298 pages.

P. L. Gaus; Professor's Solutions Manual to Accompany Basic Inorganic Chemistry, Third Edition; John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1995, 219 pages.

P. L. Gaus; Student Solutions Manual to Accompany Chemistry: The Study of Matter and Its Changes, John Wiley and Sons, Inc. Publishers, New York, 1993, 293 p.

P. L. Gaus and F. X. Smith; Instructor's Manual to Accompany Chemistry: The Study of Matter and Its Changes, John Wiley and Sons, Inc. Publishers, New York, 1993, 642 p.

Invited Lectures and Papers/Posters Presented at Professional Meetings:

G. T. Jordan, IV, P. L. Gaus, and S. G. Shore; An Organoborohydride Hydride Transfer Reagent; 208th ACS National Meeting, Washington, DC, August 1994.

G. T. Jordan, IV, J. Liu, P. L. Gaus, and G. S. Shore; Chemistry of the B2C8H19- Anion; Fourth BUSA Conference, Syracuse, NY, July 1994.