Spin-State/Stereochemical Relationships in Iron Porphyrins: Old and New Stories

Topic Spin-State/Stereochemical Relationships in Iron Porphyrins: Old and New Stories

SpeakerW. Robert Scheidt

Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry

University of Notre Dame

Notre Dame, Indiana  46556, USA

Time2014.4.1  am 10:00 ---11:30
Location 701#B501

  

Introduction to Prof. W. Robert Scheidt:

Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 1964-1968

Honors and Affiliations: American Chemical Society

                   American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science (Elected Fellow)

                   American Crystallographic Association

                   Biophysical Society

                   Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry

                   Phi Kappa Phi

                   Sigma Xi

Professional Experience: Wm. K. Warren Professor of Chemistry, Notre Dame, 1999-

                  Vice Chairman, University of Notre Dame 1982-1988

                  Professor of Chemistry, University of Notre Dame 1980-

Other Activities: Organizing Committee for International Symposium on

                  Interaction Between Iron and Proteins in Oxygen and Electron

                  Transport' held at Airlie House, Airlie, Virginia, April 14-19, 1980.

                  Associate Editor, Chemical Reviews, 1981-1984. 

                  Editorial Board, Inorganic Chemistry 1993-1994. 

                  Permanent Member- NIH Metallobiochemistry Study Section 1991-1995

                  Permanent Member- NIH     Molecular Structure and Function A Study Section  2010-2014; Site visitor for Several NIH Program Projects

Research Interests: Inorganic Chemistry, Biophysics:  Bioinorganic chemistry, structural chemistry of coordination and organometallic compounds, magnetic properties of transition metal complexes, spin state transitions, synthetic and structural chemistry of metalloporphyrins, bioinorganic chemistry of copper, relationship of magnetic communication (spin coupling) to structure, new vibrational methodology (Nuclear Resonance Vibrational Spectroscopy). 

Publications: Approximately 350 publications in peer-reviewed journals.