UM Chemistry/Research/Burkey and Webster Research Groups/Publications

Dr. Ted Burkey and his group have had a very fruitful collaboration with Dr. Edwin Heiweil of the Optical Technology Division in the Physics Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Dr. Heiweil, among many other things, has developed unique instrumentation for the measurement of ultrafast (femtosecond) infrared spectroscopy of transient species. Dr. Edwin Webster and his group are interested in structure, mechanism, and spectroscopic properties of organometallic systems. The Webster and Burkey groups actively collaborate on the development of photochromic systems, especially, a collaboration for the computationally-driven synthetic strategies for the identification of target photochromic molecules. 2008 marked the Centennial of the American Chemical Society's Division of Physical Chemistry. To celebrate and to highlight the field of physical chemistry from both historical and future perspectives, The Journal of Physical Chemistry is publishing a special series of Centennial Feature Articles. These articles are invited contributions from current and former officers and members of the Physical Chemistry Division Executive Committee and from J. Phys. Chem. Senior Editors. The collaborative work of Drs. Burkey, Heiweil, and Webster on organometallic photochromic compounds have now been highlighted as one of these Centennial Feature Articles in The Journal of Physical Chemistry A: "Development of Ultrafast Photochromic Organometallics and Photoinduced Linkage Isomerization of Arene Chromium Carbonyl Derivatives" by Tung T. To, Edwin J. Heilweil, Charles B. Duke, III, Kristie R. Ruddick, Charles Edwin Webster, and Theodore J. Burkey, ( J. Phys. Chem. A, 2009, ASAP).

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