Fluorescence of Half-Twisted 10-Acyl-1-methyltetrahydrobenzoquinolines

Dr. Christopher Abelt is a Professor of Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, The College of William and Mary. He graduated with a B.S. in Chemistry and Mathematics from University of Wisconsin in 1978 and obtained his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the University of California in 1983. He specializes in physical organic chemistry, organic photochemistry, fluorescence and sensors. His research focuses on structure, as it affects the fluorescence behavior of organic molecules. In particular, he is looking at a class of compounds that undergo charge transfer in the excited state and are sensitive to local polarity. Some also respond strongly to the presence of local H-bonding. By systematically varying the molecular architecture of these molecules, he hopes to understand their photophysical behavior with the goal of engineering reliable microsensors. He is a Member of the American Chemical Society, Division of Organic Chemistry, and CUR. He is also a reviewer for many internationally recognized journals including the Journal of Organic Chemistry, Chemical Communications, Chemical Physics Letters, Journal of Physical Chemistry A, New Journal of Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Tetrahedron and Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical.

Dr. Robert Pike is Professor and Chair of Chemistry at The College of William and Mary. He graduated with a B.S. in Chemistry from George Washington University in 1982. He obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Brown University in 1991 and subsequently took a post-doctoral position at the same university. He specializes in inorganic materials, metal–organic chemistry, X-ray crystallography, sensors, photophysics and chemistry education. His research involves the preparation and structural characterization of transition metal–organic ligand networks, especially those that show novel coordination network arrangements. He is particularly interested in semiconductive copper(I), main group, and rare earth metal compounds.