The Papers of Adrian Docken, 1910-2003 | Luther College Archives

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Collection Overview

Title: The Papers of Adrian Docken, 1910-2003

ID: LCA/RG15/Docken, A

Primary Creator: Docken, Adrian (1913-2003)

Extent: 4.4 Linear Feet. More info below.

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Collection contains scientific reports and analyses for many different organizations. All involve organic chemistry components

Biographical Note

Adrian Docken was born November 17, 1913 in Holt, Minnesota, He graduated from Luther College in 1937 with degrees in chemistry and mathematics. Docken then went and earned a PhD in chemistry in 1941 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He joined the chemistry faculty at Luther College in 1942 and remained until his retirement in 1979. He continued to run his research lab at Luther until 2002. While at Luther, Docken and his colleague George Knudson developed the chemistry major and earned the accreditation of the American Chemical Society.

Docken received several grants and fellowships to support his research and develop Luther's science facilities during his career, including from the National Science Foundation. He spent 1954-1955 as the Faculty Fellow of the Ford Foundation for the Advancement of Education at Yale University, 1961-1962 as the National Science Foundation Faculty Fellow at Imperial College of Science in London, 1967-1968 at Stanford University as the Petroleum Research Fund recipient, and as a visiting scholar in the fall of 1974 at the University of California at Los Angeles.

Docken married Orene Madson, a 1938 Luther graduate, in 1941. They had four children and were active in the local Decorah community.

Docken passed away on November 27, 2003.

Administrative Information

Repository: Luther College Archives

Alternate Extent Statement: 5 boxes

Use Restrictions: Though we may hold the property rights, Luther College Archives does not hold the copyrights for all materials. Individuals may use materials for non-commercial, private use, but commercial users must secure permissions from the copyright holders and/or Luther College Archives to reproduce, publish, or quote protected materials and photographs. For more information about the Luther College copyright and fair use policy, please visit https://www.luther.edu/library/copyright

Preferred Citation: Cite unpublished materials: Adrian Docken Papers RG15 Manuscripts, Luther College Archives, Decorah, Iowa

Finding Aid Revision History:

6/10/24: Abby Bates updated copyright policy link.

11/15/19: EC updated the preferred citation.

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Box:

[Box 1: Papers of Adrian Docken, 1955-2000, n.d.],
[Box 2: Papers of Adrian Docken, 1910-2000, n.d.],
[Box 3: Papers of Adrian Docken, 1942-1996, n.d.],
[Box 4: Papers of Adrian Docken, 1938-1997, n.d.],
[Box 5: Papers of Adrian Docken, 1973-2003, n.d.],
[All]

Box 3: Papers of Adrian Docken, 1942-1996, n.d.

Folder 1: Special Projects, 1968-1969, 1972-1974, undated
Folder 2: Churchane, 1970-1975, undated
Folder 3: Humanities Seminar, 1960-1961
Folder 4: Papers - Understanding Science, Science and Religion, etc., 1957, undated
Folder 5: Methylcyanoacetate method, 1995, undated
Item 1: American Chemical Society (ACS) Short Courses for Carbene Chemistry, 1964
Folder 6: 2-Pyrrolidinone (reaction with sulfur), 1969, undated
Folder 7: Chapel talks, etc., 1943, undated
Item 2: Flouridation, 1958
Item 3: Photochem packet from the American Chemical Society (ACS), 1968
Folder 8: Amino Acids-Proteins-Chem 52L, 1978, undated
Folder 9: Chem 51-52, Carbohydrate lect., 1970, undated
Folder 10: Organic Distillation Experiment, 1972-1978
Folder 11: Organic lectures for Chem 21-22, 1968-1974
Folder 12: Photochemistry, 1975
Folder 13: Interim Course on the Environment-Pollution, 1970
Folder 14: "Silent Spring" Comments, 1962-1963
Folder 15: Water in Alcohols by Gas Chromatagraph (G.C.), 1967
Folder 16: Miscellaneous Clippings, undated
Folder 17: Nitrogen Cycle, undated
Folder 18: Concepts of Substance and Chemical Element, undated
Folder 19: Energy Crisis, 1972-1973
Folder 20: Solar Energy, 1976-1977, 1981, undated
Folder 21: McConnell-Parapsychology, 1975-1978, undated
Folder 22: Pollution - Ecology, 1970
Folder 23: Solid State, 1974, undated
Folder 24: Salsbury Labs, 1969-1973, undated
Folder 25: Ketomalonate - Dimedone, Jim Duncan, 1967, 1979-1980, undated
Item 4: Spectra on Jim Duncan cpds, 1979
Folder 26: Ketomalonate - Ketomalononitrile, 1967, undated
Folder 27: 1,5-dione cyclopentanediol cyclopentadiene, 1985, undated
Folder 28: Experimental Research Data, 1985, undated
Folder 29: Ketal or Enol ethers of a Dianisoyl methane, undated
Folder 30: "The" Glyoxal - Synthesis and Reaction with "the" Di Bz ketone, undated
Folder 31: Experimental Research Data, 1984-1986, undated
Folder 32: Research Relating to Benzocyclobutene, 1964-1986, undated
Folder 33: Lay talks on Chemistry, undated
Folder 34: Career Day - Wartburg, 1962-1963, undated
Folder 35: Polyquinhydrone, 1961, 1973, 1984, 1990-1996, undated
Folder 36: Polyanthracenes and related ideas, 1984, undated
Folder 37: Super conductivity and related materials, 1942, 1973-1987, undated
Folder 38: Pentalene, General, undated
Folder 39: Pentalene Preps, 1970-1973, undated
Folder 40: iT energy calc., undated
Folder 41: Pi Complexes with Pentalene, 1971, undated
Folder 42: UCLA Info, 1974, 1981, undated
Folder 43: Diphenic Acid, undated
Folder 44: Barbituric Acid and Keto Malonate, 1967, undated
Folder 45: Dimethyl Ketomalanate (DMKM) and Dibenzyl Ketone, 1967, undated
Folder 46: Dimethyl Ketomalanate (DMKM) and DMM, undated
Folder 47: Dimethyl Ketomalanate (DMKM) and Dibenzoyl Methane (DBM), 1969, undated
Folder 48: Dodecahedrane, 1973-1988, undated
Folder 49: Preparation of Imidazolium Chloride plus Aluminum Chloride Melt, 1982-1986, undated
Folder 50: Preparation of 1,4-anthraquinone, undated
Folder 51: Brenda Case - Corralacene, 1994
Folder 52: Misc. notes, ideas, etc. on corralacenes - outdated, 1969, 1979, undated
Folder 53: Steve Davis Reports, 1983
Folder 54: John Schoer's Reports, 1984
Folder 55: Jenny Reppen Report, 1986-1987
Folder 56: Acetylation of Reduced TQ: IBF Adduct, 1984, undated
Folder 57: Quinone Preparation and Notes, 1975-1987, undated
Folder 58: Notes and Experimental Records on use of Various Compounds on TQ or TBQ, 1959, 1980-1982, undated
Folder 59: Surface Catalysis of Diels-Alder Reactions, 1984-1987, undated
Folder 60: AT&T Marty Kaplan, December 1984
Item 5: Dave Lokinsgard paper, 1970
Folder 61: Gary Efterfield, 1986
Folder 62: Peggy Etter, 1984-1985
Folder 63: Sonochemistry, 1983
Folder 64: Rusek (tetra)-hexabromo diketone, 1979, undated
Item 6: unsuccessful trials for mass spec on HBC samples and TBQ-IBF, 1984
Folder 65: Vanderbilt Visit, 1981-1988, undated
Folder 66: Sara Stefl-Tetrabenzanthracenes, 1988-1996, undated
Folder 67: Thoughts on how to get tetra (p-meo-phenyl)benzene, 1988-1993, undated
Folder 68: NMR's and mass specs - Methoxy TBA series, 1986, undated
Folder 69: Ar4, Monocyclized, TBA's, 1986
Folder 70: Tetrabenzanthracenes, 1993, undated
Folder 71: Experimental Research Data, 1980-1987, undated