Charles Liotta
Contact Information
- charles.liotta@chemistry.gatech.edu
- Phone
- (404) 894-4048
- Fax
- (404) 385-0155
- Location
- ES&T 2230
- Research Group
- Eckert-Liotta Research Group
Charles Liotta
Regents' Professor Emeritus
Awards
Recipient, Outstanding Teacher Award, Georgia Tech, 1971, Recipient, Outstanding Faculty Award, Georgia Tech (Student Government), 1972, Visiting Professor of Chemistry, University of California-Berkeley, 1975, Recipient, Sigma Xi Research Award, Georgia Tech, 1982, Member, Omicron Delta Kappa Honorary, Member Phi Kappa Phi Honorary, Joint Professor of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering, Georgia Tech, 1994, Recipient, Outstanding Faculty Award (Interfraternity Council), 1994, Recipient, Outstanding Service Award, 1995, Regents’ Professor, Georgia Tech, 1997, Recipient, Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award, 2004, Recipient, Malcolm E. Pruitt Award, 2005, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Council, 2005, Recipient, Distinguished Faculty Award, Georgia Tech, 2010
Education
B.S., Chemistry, Brooklyn College, 1959; Ph.D., Chemistry, University of Maryland, 1963.
Research
Dr. Liotta’s research activities involve both synthetic-organic and physical-organic chemistry. His major interests lie in the areas of structure-property relationships, kinetics and mechanisms of organic reactions, asymmetric synthesis, homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis (phase transfer catalysis), the development of environmentally benign tunable (supercritical fluids, near critical water, gas expanded liquids)and smart (reversible ionic liquids, DMSO substitutes) solvent systems, and molecular thermodynamics, solution theory, and phase equilibria. A fundamental goal of Dr. Liotta’s research is the development of sustainable and environmentally benign chemicals and chemical processes. Dr. Liotta has been collaborating with Dr. Charles A. Eckert for approximately 20 years.