John Alan Goodwin, Ph.D

Inorganic Chemistry

Department of Chemistry and Physics

Coastal Carolina University

 

SCI 209-A

(843) 349-2295 jgoodwin@coastal.edu

 

Education

Rice University, Houston, Texas.  Ph.D., Inorganic Chemistry, 1988

Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky, B.A., Chemistry and Music Performance (Saxophone).  Magna Cum Laude, Honors in each, 1982.

 

 

Courses currently taught at Coastal

General Chemistry I and II (CHEM 111-112)

Advanced Inorganic Chemistry (CHEM 411/411L)

 

 

Scholarly Activity

Polymer-supported Porphyrin Catalysts in Biomedical and Green Chemistry Applications

Development and Assessment of Alternative Instructional Materials in General Chemistry

 

 

Other Professional Activities

Project Kaleidoscope, Faculty for the 21st Century, Class of 1994

ACS Div Chem Ed – Exams Institute

POGIL – (Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning)

 

 

Publications  (Student Authors in Bold).

Chemistry – The Science in Context – Test Item File, Goodwin, J. A.; Gilbert, B. D.  W. W. Norton, New York, 2003.  ISBN 0-393-97982-2

 

Goodwin, J. A.; Kurtikyan, T. S.; Zheng, B.; Parmley, D.; Howard, J.; Green, S.; Walsh, R.; Standard, J. Mardyukov, A., Przybyla  D. E. “Variation of Oxo-transfer Reactivity of (Nitro) Cobalt Picket Fence Porphyrin with Oxygen-Donating Ligands” Inorg. Chem. 2005, 44(7), 2215-2223.

 

Kurtikyan, T. S.;  Mardyukov, A. N.;Kazaryan, R. K.; Goodwin, J. A.  Interaction of NO2 gas with Sublimed Layers of meso-mono-4-pyridyl-tri-phenylporphyrinato cobalt(II).  The Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines, 2003, 7, 775-779

 

Kurtikyan, T. S.;  Mardyukov, A. N.; Goodwin, J. A.   Interaction of Nitrogen Oxides with Sublimed Layers of (meso-tetraphenylporphyrinato)cobalt(II). IR evidences of Oxo Transfer from (Nitro)porphyrinatocobalt(III) to free Nitric Oxide”, Inorg. Chem. 2003, 42 (25), 8489-8493.

 

Goodwin, J. A.;  Smith, D. G.  “Relationships of Student Learning Preferences and Instructional Alternatives in General Chemistry” Academic Exchange Quarterly, Spring, 2003.

 

Goodwin, J.: Bailey, R.; Pennington, W.; Rasberry, R.; Green, T.; Shasho, S.; Vongsavanh, M.; Echevarria, V.; Tiedeken, J.; Brown, C.; Fromm, G.; Lyerly, S.; Watson, N.; Long, A.; De Nitto, N. "Structural and Oxo-Transfer Reactivity Differences of Hexacoordinate and Pentacoordinate (Nitro)(tetraphenylporphinato)cobalt(III) Derivatives"  Inorg. Chem., 2001, 40, 4217-4225.

 

Goodwin, J. A.; Gilbert, B. D.  “Cafeteria Style Grading in General Chemistry” J. Chem. Educ.  2001, 78, 490-494.

 

Frangione, M.; Port, J.; Baldiwala, M.; Judd, A.; Galley, J.; DaVega, M.; Linna, K.; Caron, L. Anderson, E.; Goodwin, J.  Thermochemistry of Oxo Transfer from Coordinated Nitrite in the Dinitroiron(III) Picket Fence Porphyrin Anion.”  Inorg. Chem. 1997, 36, 1904-1911.

 

Recent Presentations  (Student co-authors/presenters in Bold)

“Nafion-Bound Iron Porphyrins in Peroxynitrite Decomposition Catalysis.    Smith, Lindsay P.; Honsaker, Nicole D.; Bradley, Nicole; Goodwin, John A., Abstracts, 57th Southeast/61st Southwest Joint Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Memphis, TN, United States, November 1-4  (2005),

 

Solution Phase Interactions of Cationic Iron Porphyrins and Nafion Oligomers.”  Sides, Mark D.; Goodwin, John A..Abstracts, 57th Southeast/61st Southwest Joint Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Memphis, TN, United States, November 1-4  (2005

 

“Nafion-bound iron porphyrins in peroxynitrite decomposition catalysis” Goodwin, John A.; Smith, Lindsay P.  230th National Meeting of the ACS, Washington, DC, August 28, 2005.

 

"A POGIL Approach to Context-Rich General Chemistry" John Goodwin, Tom Gilbert, and David Hanson (in absentia), 2005 MADCP Meeting, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA, June 5-7, 2005.

 

“Creation of an Honors General Chemistry Course for Well-Prepared Science Students” John Goodwin, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Presentations – CETL Center, Coastal Carolina University, April 23, 2005.

 

“Tribulation and National Identity: Armenia’s Saga and Strength of Identity  John Goodwin, Joey Schuman, Celebration of Inquiry - Coastal Carolina University, February 17-18, 2005.

 

“Peer-Led Team Learning”  Thomas Eberlein, John Goodwin and Emily Tarsis, MID Project Workshop, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, October 8-9, 2004

 

“Activation of O2 by (Nitro)cobalt Porphyrins” John Goodwin, Graduate Seminar, Department of Chemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, September 10, 2004.

 

“Five-coordinate (nitro)cobalt porphyrins in heterogeneous oxidation catalysis” John A. Goodwin, Tigran S. Kurtikyan, 228th ACS National Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, August 24, 2004

 

Semiempirical and density functional studies of a series of (nitro)(porphyrinato)cobalt(III) compounds with distal oxygen-bound ligands”  John Goodwin, Jean M. Standard, Tigran S. Kurtikyan, David E. Przybyla, Shaun Green .  228th ACS National Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, August 22, 2004

 “Immobilized (nitro)cobalt porphyrins in oxo-transfer catalysis” John A. Goodwin, Rosa B. Walsh, Tigran S. Kurtikyan, Deidra F. Parmley, and Arthur N. Mardyukov. 227th ACS National Meeting, Anaheim, CA, March 28, 2004.

“Peer Led Team Learning - A Pedagogical Model that Creates Good "Chemistry" for Learning” John Goodwin and Emily Tarsis, Project Kaleidoscope 2003 Minnesota Assembly - Considering Pedagogies that Serve to Strengthen Student Learning University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota October 10 – 12, 2003

 

 

Grant Support

NSF: Collaborative Research: RUI:  Ionomer-Bound Metalloporphyrins as Heterogeneous Oxidation Catalysts”, pending, $ 176,554 for CCU team and $173,746 to sub-award team at Georgia State College & University, Rosalie Richards, PI of sub-award, pending.

 

NFSAT-CRDF – US-Armenian Bilateral Grants Program, 2005, with Tigran Kurtikyan.  “Identifying Reactive Intermediates in the Mechanism of Catalytic Oxo-Transfer Reactions performed by metalloporphyrins” Funded $4000 for US team of $30,000 total

 

NIH INBRE, 2005-2006, with John Dawson, USC.  “Immobilized Iron Porphyrins in Catalytic Peroxynitrite Decomposition”, Funded - P20 RR016461, $50,000 or 75,000 total.

 

Research Corporation,  2005-2007, “Immobilized Iron Porphyrins in Catalytic Peroxynitrite Decomposition”, Cottrell College Science Awards, Funded - CC6451, $45,800.

 

South Carolina Commission on Higher Education, 2003, “Enhancing Interactivity in Teaching and Learning In and Beyond the Classroom”, Funded - $797,000.

 

NFSAT-CRDF – US-Armenian Bilateral Grants Program, 2003, with Tigran Kurtikyan.  “Oxo-Transfer Reaction of Metalloporphyrin-Nitro Complexes” Funded - $5000 for US team of $80,000 total


Research Synopsis

 

            Metalloporphyrins have a remarkably rich chemistry that ranges from biochemical active sites to industrial catalysts.  Some of the biological roles, such as the iron centers in hemoglobin and the cytochromes as well as the photoreceptor in chlorophyll are very well known for their ability to reversibly carry oxygen and to promote important biochemical oxidation-reduction reactions.  Our research has focused on the catalytic oxidation-reduction reaction chemistry of a few metalloporphyrins having iron and cobalt centers.

 

            Some cobalt porphyrins, CoP, are capable of transferring an oxygen atom from a coordinated nitro ligand (CoP-NO2, as shown in the figure) to a substrate, X, such as an alkene, to make an oxidized substrate, XO.  (The figure shows the cobalt atom in green and the oxygen atoms in red.)  In doing so, they are reduced to cobalt(II) nitrosyl complexes (CoP-NO) that are able to react with molecular oxygen to return to the nitro complex, CoP-NO2.  Of course, in this state they may react with more substrate if is available, and continue on in a catalytic cycle that results in the overall reaction of:

 

                                                            O2 + 2X = 2XO

 

            We found that the nitro complexes in solution that have only the porphyrin and nitro ligand are much more reactive in this regard than porphyrins that have an additional ligand in the position opposite the nitro ligand.  In collaboration with Dr. Tigran Kurtikyan, we have explored the adaptation of this solution-phase chemistry to the solid state to better understand the details of the mechanism of oxygen atom transfer, and to explore the possibility of using these as heterogeneous catalysts.  That research involves sublimed thin films of porphyrins that are somewhat fragile and easily dissolve in organic solvents, so it is really a model system for studying the reactions of the porphyrin in the solid state.  The current exploration of cationic porphyrins that are immobilized onto a negatively charged polymer called Nafion®, is an attempt to develop an oxidation catalyst that is robust enough for use with moderately high temperatures, elevated pressures, and solutions that could result in a usable oxidation catalyst.

 

            Iron porphyrins in solution are known to react catalytically with an important biochemical oxidant called peroxynitrite that has the structural formula of ONOO-.  This oxidant forms from the superoxide ion and nitric oxide in inflamed tissue and is responsible for cellular damage.  The catalytic decomposition of peroxynitrite by iron porphyrins can take two routes: if there is an abundance of an antioxidant such as ascorbic acid (Vitamin C), the catalyst promotes the formation of nitrite ion by oxidizing the ascorbic acid.  In the absence of antioxidants, as is usually the case in inflamed tissues, the catalyst continues to decompose the peroxynitrite by rearranging it to the better known and much more stable nitrate ion, NO3-.

 

            We are currently studying if it is possible to adapt this peroxynitrite decomposition catalysis to the solid state, again by immobilizing cationic iron porphyrins onto Nafion® polymer films.  With a system such as this it could be possible to prepare biomedical implants with surfaces having the ability to decompose peroxynitrite and therefore reduce the ill effects of inflammation in the tissues surrounding them.    

 

            Techniques include: anaerobic synthesis (Schlenk line and glove box), UV-visible, FTIR, NMR, cyclic voltammetry, conventional and stopped-flow kinetics, GC, IC, computational modeling with semi-empirical and density functional models.

 


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