Scott Spencer completed his M. S. in 2001. For his Master's research, Scott studied the mechanism of aluminum chloride catalyzed chlorination of toluene using density functional theory.

“A Computational Study of Aluminum Chloride Activation for Toluene Chlorination,” S. R. Spencer, M. Zhang and C. R. F. Lund, J. Phys. Chem. A, 107 (48), 10335-10345 (2003). [more info]

“The Role of Water in the Activation of Aluminum Chloride Halogenation Catalysts,” AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, November 2003.

“Pathways in Homogeneous Catalytic Chlorination,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Reno, NV, November 2001.

“Uncatalyzed and AlCl₃-catalyzed chlorination of toluene,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, November 2000.

Scott R. Spencer, “Ab-Initio Study of the Aluminum Chloride Catalysis of the Chlorination of Toluene,” M. S. Thesis, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Dept. of Chemical Engineering (2001). [more info]