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Charles L. LiottaRegents' Professor Office: 2230 ES&T, 027 Carnegie Phone: 404-894-4048/8885 Fax: 404-894-7452 |
B.S., Brooklyn College, 1959; Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1963
Appointed as Regents' Professor - 1997
Research Interests
As Vice Provost for Research and Dean of Graduate Studies , Dr. Liotta guides the investment of research resources and nurtures the development of researchers and their programs. His Office of Research and Graduate Studies oversees the administration of a research enterprise expending over $425 million annually. His management team supports interdisciplinary program development, manages the business processes for the research funding, and invests in world-class research facilities. His responsibilities include programs to attract high quality faculty and graduate students to Georgia Tech, and assure that their innovations become realities in the global market place.
As Regents' Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering , Dr. Liotta's research activities involve both synthesis and physical-organic chemistry. His major interests lie in the areas of kinetics and mechanisms of heterogeneous reactions (phase transfer catalysis), applied chemical kinetics and homogeneous catalysis, molecular thermodynamics and solution theory, phase equilibria, reactions and processes in supercritical and near critical fluids, effect of high pressure and temperature on solution behavior, separation processes, applications to environmental control, synthesis of new barrier materials, and applications to novel materials.
Dr. Liotta's research group presently consists of graduate students and post-doctoral associates in both the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the School of Chemical Engineering (joint with Professor Charles A. Eckert).
During the past 40 years, Dr. Liotta has been invited to present over three hundred research seminars at various universities, colleges, chemical companies, symposia, professional meetings (ACS), Gordon Conferences, etc. in North America, Europe, and Asia.
Representative Publications
"Tunable solutions for homogeneous catalyst recycle," Jie Lu, Michael J. Lazzaroni, Jason P. Hallett, Andreas S. Bommarius, Charles L. Liotta, Charles A. Eckert, I&EC Res., 2004, Vol 43, 1586-1590.
"CO2 catalyzed acetal formation in CO2-expanded methanol and ethylene glycol," Xiaofeng Xie, Charles L. Liotta, Charles A. Eckert, IEC Res, 2004, 43, 2605-2609.
"CO2-induced miscibility of fluorous and organic solvents at ambient temperatures," K. N. West, J. P. Hallett, R. S. Jones, D. Bush, C. L. Liotta, and C. A. Eckert, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 2004, 43, 4827-4832.
"Reversible in situ acid formation for b-pinene hydrolysis using CO2 expanded liquid and hot water," Theresa S. Chamblee, Ross R. Weikel, Shane A. Nolen, Charles L. Liotta and Charles A. Eckert, Green Chemistry, 2004, 382-386.
"CO2 protected amine formation from nitrile and imine hydrogenation in gas-expanded liquids," Xiaofeng Xie, Charles L. Liotta, Charles A. Eckert, I & EC Res, in press 2004.
"Phase boundaries of the ternary system carbon dioxide + methanol + hydrogen at 312.2K," Xiaofeng Xie, James S. Brown, David Bush, Charles A. Eckert, J Chem Eng Data, submitted March, 2004.
"Solubility, density and activity coefficients at 25 C of dimethyl(1,5-cyclooctadiene)platinum (II) in binary and ternary mixtures of acetone, cyclohexane and 2-ethyl-1-hexanol," Eric Hall, James W. Fuhs, Robbie Logan, Farzaneh Maniei, David Bush, Charles A. Eckert, Andrew Hunt, Scott Flanagan, Journal of Solution Chemistry, submitted March, 2004.
"Sustainable reactions in tunable solvents," Charles A. Eckert, Charles L. Liotta, David Bush, James Brown, Jason Hallett, J Phys Chem B., 2004, 108, 18108-18118,
"High pressure vapor + liquid equilibria of some carbon dioxide + organic binary systems," Michael J. Lazzaroni, David Bush, James S. Brown, and Charles A. Eckert, J Chem Eng Data, in press 2004.
"High pressure phase equilibria of some carbon dioxide-organic-water systems," Michael J. Lazzaroni, David Bush, Rebecca Jones, Jason P. Hallett, Charles L. Liotta, and Charles A. Eckert, Fluid Phase Equil, 2004, 224, 143-154.
"Crystallization of a highly fluorinated compound from a CO2-expanded liquid solvent", in the Handbook of Fluorous Chemistry, P. G. Jessop, C. D. Ablan, C. A. Eckert, C. L. Liotta, Gladysz, Horvath, and Curran (Eds.), Wiley-VCH, in press.
"Tunable fluids for sustainable recycle of homogeneous catalysts," Proceedings of the 7th Italian Conference on Supercritical Fluids and Their Applications, Jason P. Hallett, James S. Brown, Pamela Pollet, Jie Lu, Colin A. Thomas, Rebecca S. Jones, Charles L. Liotta, Charles A. Eckert, submitted April, 2004.
"Determination of solvatochromic solubility parameters for the characterization of gas-expanded liquids", JSCF, Victor T. Wyatt, David Bush, Jie Lu, Jason P. Hallett, Charles L. Liotta and Charles A. Eckert, submitted June, 2004.
"Carbon dioxide enhanced extraction of phase-transfer catalysts," Xiaofeng Xie, James S. Brown, Charles L. Liotta, Charles A. Eckert, AIChE J, in review August, 2003.
"The one-pot synthesis and diels-alder reactivity of 2,5-dihydrothiophene-1,1-dioxide-3-carboxylic acid," G. S. Andrade, J. E. Berkner, C. L. Liotta, C. A. Eckert, D. A. Schiraldi, A. Andersen, D. M. Collard, Synth. Commun., 2003, 33, 3643-3650.
"Spectroscopically probing microscopic solvent properties of room-temperature ionic liquid with the addition of carbon dioxide," J. Lu, C. L. Liotta, C. A. Eckert, J. Phys. Chem. A, 2003, 107, 3995-4000.
"Neoteric solvents for asymmetric hydrogenation: supercritical fluids, ionic liquids, and expanded ionic liquids," P. G. Jessop, R. Stanley, R. A. Brown, C. A. Eckert, C. L. Liotta, T. T. Ngo, P. Pollet, Green Chemistry, 2003, 5, 123-128.
"The catalytic opportunities of near-critical water: A benign medium for conventionally acid and base catalyzed organic synthesis," S. A. Nolen, C. L. Liotta, C. A. Eckert, Green Chemistry, 2003, 663-669.
"Surface modification of polybutadiene facilitated by supercritical carbon dioxide," T. C. Ngo, J. McCarney, J. S. Brown, M. Lazzaroni, K. Counts, C. L. Liotta, C. A. Eckert, J. App. Poly. Sci., 2003, 88, 522-530.
"Supercritical fluid impregnation of different azo-dyes into polymer: In situ UV/VIS spectroscopic study," T. C. Ngo, C. L. Liotta, C. A. Eckert, S. G. Kazarian, J. Supercrit. Fluids, 2003, 27, 215-221.