Warren Vidrine's Academic Credentials

Born Drouét Warren Joseph-Pierre Vidrine fils in Ville Platte LA, Aug. 12, 1948

B.S. in Chemistry (ACS certified) at Spring Hill College, Mobile, AL, May 1969

National Merit Scholar, Liberal Arts Honors Program Graduate
Analytical thesis: Synthesis & preparation of a lanosteryl palmitate GLPC column & the demonstration of its use in the chiral GC separation of secondary alkyl acetates
Senior thesis: The development & demonstration of the converse of the Merrifield synthesis by the binding and sequence determination of several tetrapeptides and pentapeptides
Minor qualifications: Physics, Biology, Philosophy, History, & Literature

M.S. (Research) in Biochemistry at the Biochem. Dept. of Saint Louis U. School of Medicine, St. Louis MO, May 1974

Master's thesis: Trace Lipids in Adult Brain and Brain Squalene-2,3-Epoxidase Levels in Developing and Adult Rat Brain
Squalene-2,3-Epoxidase Activity in Rat Brain during Growth and Maturation
Two-Dimensional TLC of Lipophilic Compounds: Characterization of a Mixed Stationary Phase Permitting Both Absorption TLC and Reversed-Partition TLC on One Plate
Isolation & Tentative Characterization of a Trace Fluorescent Lipid from Bovine, Rat, & Rabbit Brain

Ph.D. in Physical Organic Chemistry at the Chemistry Department of the U. of South Carolina, Nov. 1977 (ceremony Jan. 1979)

Doctoral dissertation: Variable Temperature 19F & 13C NMR Studies and the Investigation of Neighboring Group Participation Reaction in Aqueous Solvents
U.S. Patent: NMR Spectrometer and Method (stochastic feedback-excitation NMR)
Triple Bond Participation in the Solvolysis of Soluble Sulfonates in Water & Water-Sulfuric Acid
Feedback Excitation NMR Spectrometry and its Application to Simultaneous Temperature Measurement
Analysis of S-M-B Equation & Comparison with Halonium-reaction-derived Nucleophilicities
Simultaneous Temperature Measurement for Pulsed Fourier-Transform C-13 NMR Spectra
Assignment of a Methylated SO2 Structure, CH3O=S=O+, to the Species Present in CH3F-SbF5-SO2 Solutions & Precipitation of a Salt of CH3O=S=O+ upon Addition of SO2 to CH3F-SbF5-SO2ClF