Department of Chemistry
Selected Publications:
- T. Jiao, Z. Pang, T. J. Burkey, R. F. Johnston, T. A. Heimer, V. D. Kleinman, E. J. Heilweil, J "Ultrafast Ring Closure Energetics and Dynamics of Cyclopentadienyl Manganese Tricarbonyl Derivatives" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1999, 121, 4618.
- J. S. Yeston, T. T. To, T. J. Burkey, E. J. Heilweil, "Ultrafast Chelation Dynamics of Cyclopentadienyl Manganese Tricarbonyl Derivatives with Pendant Sulfides", J. Phys. Chem B. 2004, 108, 4582-4585.
- T. T. To, C. E. Barnes, and T. J. Burkey "Bistable Photochromic Organometallics Based on Linkage Isomerization: Photochemistry of Dicarbonyl(畏5-methylcyclopentadienyl) manganese(I) derivatives with a Bifunctional, Non-Chelating Ligand", Organometallics, 2004, 23, 2708-2714.
- T. T. To, E. J. Heilweil, and T. J. Burkey, 鈥淭ime-Resolved Infrared Absorption Study of Cyclopentadienyl Manganese Tricarbonyl Derivatives: Chelation of Pendant Sulfides in Acetonitrile鈥, J. Phys. Chem A 2006, 110, 10669-10673.
- T. T. To, E. J. Heilweil, C. B. Duke III and T. J. Burkey 鈥淪olvent and Structural Effects on Ultrafast Chelation Dynamics of Arene Chromium Tricarbonyl Sulfide Derivatives鈥 J. Phys. Chem. A. 2007, 111, 6933-6937.
- T. T. To, C. B. Duke III, C. S. Junker, C. O鈥橞rien, C. R. Ross II, C. E. Barnes, C. E. Webster, T. J. Burkey, 鈥淟inkage Isomerization as a Mechanism for Photochromic Materials: Cyclopentadienylmanganese Tricarbonyl Derivatives with Chelatable Functional Groups鈥. Organometallics, 2008, 27, 289-298.
- Invited centennial article: T. T. To, E. J. Heilweil, K. R. Ruddick, C. E. Webster, C. B. Duke III, and T. J. Burkey, 鈥淭he Development of Ultrafast Photochromic Organometallics and Photoinduced Linkage Isomerization of Arene Chromium Carbonyl Derivatives鈥, J. Phys. Chem. A 2009, 113, 2666-2676.
- S. M. Gittermann, R. G. Letterman, T.-J. Jiao, G.-L. Leu, N. J. DeYonker, C. E. Webster, and T. J. Burkey 鈥淏ond Energies, Reaction Volumes, and Kinetics for s and p Complexes of Mo(CO)5尝鈥, J. Phys. Chem. A, 2011, 115, 9004鈥9013.
- E. J. Heilweil, J. O. Johnson, K. L. Mosley, P. P. Lubet, C. E. Webster, T. J. Burkey, 鈥淓ngineering Femtosecond Organometallic Chemistry: Photochemistry and Dynamics of Ultrafast Chelation of Cyclopentadienylmanganese Tricarbonyl Derivatives with Pendant Benzenecarbonyl and Pyridinecarbonyl Groups鈥 Organometallics, 2011, 30, 5611-5619. 10.1021/om2003656
- Charles B. Duke III, Roger G. Letterman, Jermaine O. Johnson, James W. Barr, Songnan Hu, Charles R. Ross II,Charles Edwin Webster, and Theodore J. Burkey, 鈥淧hotochemistry of Arene Chromium Tricarbonyl Complexes with Tethered Pyridinyl and Propenyl Groups: Investigations of Chelate Formation, Structure, and Linkage Isomerization鈥 Organometallics, 2014, 33, 485-497.
- Roger G. Letterman, Charles B. Duke III, Tung T. To, Theodore J. Burkey, and Charles Edwin Webster, "Degenerate Pathways for Metallocycle Ring Inversions: A Common Phenomenon Consistent with the Principle of Microscopic Reversibility' Organometallics, accepted 2014.
