Prof. Dr. Paul Rablen is the Edmund Allen Professor of Chemistry at Swarthmore College. He completed his Master’s studies in Organic Chemistry at Columbia University, his PhD studies in Organic Chemistry at Yale University, and was an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Washington, Princeton University, the University of Fribourg, and Yale University. Research in his laboratory focuses on fundamental questions about the relationship between structure, stability, and reactivity in organic compounds and questions about the mechanistic pathways of organic reactions. These questions are pursued through the use of ab initio molecular orbital calculations.