Robert Ditchfield
Professor
Department of Chemisrty
Dartmouth College
United States of America
Biography
Joseph J BelBruno is currently working as Professor of Chemistry, Dartmouth College, USA. His research focusses mainly on developing and applying theoretical techniques that will enable one to understand how various ground and excited state properties depend on molecular electronic structure. Of particular interest are those properties which reflect how the molecular electronic structure responds to the application of external magnetic and/or electric fields. Magnetic shielding tensors have been calculated for many types of nuclei in a wide range of molecular environments.
Research Interest
Theory of magnetic resonance parameters, theoretical studies of carbocation-pi complexation in the gas phase and in solution
Publications
-
Hydroxycarbocation - π interaction: A computational andexperimental study of protonation of aromatic ketones, Bobbijo van Beusichem,Celeste P. Viscardi, Thomas A. Spencer, Jr., and Robert Ditchfield, Abstr. Pap. J. Amer. Chem. Soc., (2000), ORGN-497.
-
Circumannular long range orbital interactions affect thefree energy of activation for the inversion of groups on nitrogen in3-imino-2,2,4,4-tetramethylcyclobutanones, James J. Worman, Robert Ditchfield,Allen Chong, Grzegorz Mloston, and Martha Wozicka, J. Amer. Chem. Soc., Book of Abstracts, 229thACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA (2005), ORGN-474.
-
Lancaster, C. R. D., Hunte, C., Kelley, J., Trumpower, B. L., and Ditchfield, R. "A Comparison of Stigmatellin Conformations, Free and Bound to the Photosynthetic Reaction Center and the Cytochrome bc1 Complex." J. Mol. Biol. 368, 197 (2007).
