{"id":504,"date":"2014-11-02T19:47:24","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T19:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/innovscience.com\/wordpress\/?p=504"},"modified":"2014-11-02T19:49:04","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T19:49:04","slug":"university-of-akronprofessor-joseph-p-kennedy-expose-part-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/innovscience.com\/wordpress\/uncategorized\/university-of-akronprofessor-joseph-p-kennedy-expose-part-20\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Akron\/Professor Joseph P. Kennedy Expose, Part 20"},"content":{"rendered":"

While working on a document several months ago I recalled \u201cKennedy\u201d stating, during a seminar at U. Akron, that carbon dioxide could be used as a solvent for cationic polymerization.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Use of solid carbon dioxide as an internal refrigerant in cationic polymerization dates well into the earlier 1900s;<\/span>1<\/span><\/sup> however, application of supercritical CO<\/span>2<\/span><\/sub> is relatively new.*<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>During a literature search I stumbled across a familiar pattern, <\/span>\u201cKennedy\u201d published work on cationic polymerization in supercritical CO<\/span>2<\/span><\/sub><\/span> at the same time that another researcher, Professor Joseph DeSimone (UNC) did as well<\/span><\/em>!<\/span>2,3<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>I dug a little deeper and found out that DeSimone had indeed published his results several months earlier (April of 1994) than \u201cKennedy\u201d (May of 1994)** but \u201cKennedy\u201d somehow had filed patent applications before DeSimone did.<\/span>4<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0 When I contacted DeSimone to determine if he was the true inventor he not only indicated that he was but that \u201cKennedy\u201d had stolen the idea from a lecture delivered by DeSimone at U. Akron which was followed up with a personal meeting with \u201cKennedy\u201d that same day!!!<\/strong><\/strong>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>It would appear DeSimone informed \u201cKennedy\u201d that he was conducting cationic polymerization in supercritical CO<\/span>2<\/span><\/sub><\/span> during this personal meeting.<\/span><\/strong><\/strong>\u00a0 <\/span>Please refer to the following email exchange with DeSimone here Re_ cationic pzn in supercritical CO2<\/a>\u00a0.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I asked DeSimone if he would pursue this but he declined to do so.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>As I told him, this gutless behavior is the root cause of the rampant intellectual dishonesty plaguing the field of science today but he still shrugged off his responsibility.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Apparently his defeat by \u201cKennedy\u201d was too much of an ordeal for him to confront.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Possibly one of the most disgusting aspects of \u201cKennedy\u2019s\u201d stealing of DeSimone\u2019s invention is the fact that he makes the following statement in reference #3<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/strong>.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cOur exhaustive manual and computer-aided literature and patent search, including data-bases such as RAPRA, STN International, and CAS, failed to identify a single reference concerning C<\/span>+<\/span><\/sup>Pzn in SC<\/span><\/span>\u00b7<\/span>CO<\/span>2<\/span><\/sub> that is at temperatures higher than T<\/span>c<\/span><\/sub> = 31.1 <\/span>\u00b0<\/span>C, the critical temperature of CO<\/span>2<\/span><\/sub>.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Another salient point to the reader is although I entered the \u201cKennedy\u201d lab only four years following publication of \u201cKennedy\u2019s\u201d work in supercritical CO<\/span>2<\/span><\/sub><\/span> there was little evidence that he ever possessed the proper equipment to conduct the experimental work<\/span><\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>A very antiquated and poorly maintained Parr reactor (ca. 200 mL capacity) was present in the laboratory but its state of disrepair and appearance make the author of this blog question as to whether actual polymerizations were ever conducted in the \u201cKennedy\u201d lab in supercritical CO<\/span>2<\/span><\/sub>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

As we progress in chronicling inventions \u201cKennedy\u201d has stolen from other scientists we will eventually come to a very interesting case involving a scientist whose name is well-known to those in the polymer field.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>The reader won\u2019t need to take my word for this but instead \u201cKennedy\u201d himself acknowledges that he took this invention from this particular scientist\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

* This is currently the most detailed current review***<\/em><\/span><\/span> of initiator systems for cationic polymerization although other materials are forthcoming.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>It also contains the first public disclosure of \u201cKennedy\u2019s\u201d attempt to falsify research data.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Please note, I\u2019m only referencing the first couple references in context to cationic polymerization in supercritical CO<\/span>2<\/span><\/sub> as disclosed by DeSimone and Kennedy.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

** It should be pointed out that many of \u201cKennedy\u2019s\u201d coinciding publications of either stolen or copycatted work (i.e., almost identical) were routinely published in the periodical \u201cPolymer Bulletin\u201d which \u201cKennedy\u201d served as founding editor.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Obviously, there is no conflict of interest there.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>IT IS QUITE INTERESTING TO NOTE THE \u201cKENNEDY\u201d EVEN COPIES DESIMONE\u2019S USE OF THE TERMINOLOGY \u201cTUNED\u201d AND THAT THIS WORD IS USED IN ALMOST IDENTICAL POSITIONS (IN REGARDS TO THE STANDARD OUTLINE OF JOURNAL ARTICLES) OF PAPERS AUTHORED BY THESE TWO RESEARCHERS {SEE REFERENCE 2 (BOTTOM OF THIRD PARAGRAPH, INTRODUCTION) AND REFERENCE 3 (BOTTOM THIRD PARAGRAPH, INTRODUCTION)}!!!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

*** The review by Gandini and Cheradame<\/span>5<\/span><\/sup><\/span> is the most exhaustive but somewhat dated.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

References:<\/span><\/p>\n

(1) Lewis, S. P.; Mathers, R. T. Advances in Acid Mediated Polymerizations.; In Renewable Polymers, Synthesis, Technology and Processing; <\/em><\/span><\/span>Vikas, M., Ed.; Wiley-VCH: New York, 2011;<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>pp 69-173.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

(2) Clark, M. R.; DeSimone, J. M. Cationic Polymerizations in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Polym. Prepr., Am. Chem. Soc. Div. Polym. Chem. <\/em>1994<\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/span>, <\/span>35<\/span><\/em>,<\/span><\/em>482-483.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

(3) Pernecker, T.; Kennedy, J. P. Carbocationic polymerizations in supercritical carbon dioxide I. Exploratory experiments with isobutylene Polym. Bull. <\/em>1994<\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/span>, <\/span>32<\/span><\/em>,<\/span><\/em>537-543.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

(4) Kennedy, J. P.; Pernecker, T. Carbocationic polymerizations in supercritical CO<\/span>2<\/span><\/sub><\/span> U.S. Patent 5,376,744, 1994.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

(5) Gandini, A.; Cheradame, H. Cationic Polymerisation: Initiation Processes with Alkenyl Monomers. Adv. Polym. Sci. <\/em>1980<\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/span>, <\/span>34-35<\/span><\/em>,<\/span><\/em>1-284.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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