Melvin E. Zandler

Melvin E. Zandler

Title: Professor

Education: Ph.D., Arizona State University 1966

Research Area: Physical Chemistry

Phone: 316-978-7371

Fax: 316-978-3431

E-mail: Mel.Zandler@wichita.edu

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Principal Research Interests

  • Ab initio and semi-empirical molecular orbital calculations; calculation of liquid and liquid mixture properties
  • Inorganic fullerenes
Representative Publications
  1. E. R. Talaty, M. E. Zandler and E. B. Dreger "Ab Initio Potential Energy Profiles for the Isomerization of Ten- Valence-Electron Species of Type HOX: Analysis of Anomalous Bending Potentials", to be submitted.

  2. M. E. Zandler and F. D'Souza, "Structural and Electronic Properties of Beta-Pyrrole Brominated Tetraaryl Porphyrins: Semi-empirical and Ab Initio Investigations", in preparation.

  3. M. E. Zandler and F. D'Souza, "Ab Initio Hartree-Fock and Density Functional Calculations on Metalloporphyrins and Metalloporphycenes: Effect of Metal Ion Size on Relative Energies", in preparation.

  4. A. S. D. Sandanayaka, Y. Araki, O. Ito, G. R. Deviprasad, P. M. Smith, L. M. Rogers, M. E. Zandler, F. D'Souza, "Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Fullerene Triads Bearing Pyrene and Fluorene" Chem. Phys., 325, 452-460 (2006)

  5. P. A. Karr, M. E. Zandler, M. Beck, J. D. Jaeger, A. L. McCarty, P. M. Smith, F. D'Souza, "Predicting the Site of Electron Transfer Using DFT Frontier Orbitals: Studies on Porphyrin Attached Either to Quinone or Hydroquinone, and Quinhydrone Self-Assembled Supramolecular Complexes", THEOCHEM , 765, 91-103 (2006)

  6. J. P. Hill, Y. Wakayama, W. Schmitt, T. Tsuruoka, T. Nakanishi, M. E. Zandler, A. L. McCarty, F. D'Souza, L. R. Milgram, K. Ariga, "Regulating the Stability of 2D Crystal Structures Using an Oxidation State-Dependent Molecular Conformation", Chem. Commun., (22) 2320-2322 (2006).

  7. M. E. Zandler, F. D'Souza, "The Remarkable Ability of B3LYP/3-21G(*) Calculations to Describe Geometry, Spectral and Electrochemical Properties of Molecular and Supramolecular Porphyrin-Fullerene Conjugates" Comptes Rendus Chimie, 9, 960-981 (2006).

  8. G. R. Deviprasad, P. M. Smith, M. E. Zandler, L. M. Rogers, F. D'Souza,"Fluorophores(s) Appended Fullerene Dyads and Triads for Probing Photoinduced Energy Transfer: Syntheses, Electronic Structure, and Fluorescence Studies", Photosynthesis Research, 87, 105-114 (2006).