Edward I. Solomon
Academic Appointments
- Professor, Natural Sciences Cluster - Chemistry
- Member, Bio-X
- Professor, Photon Science Directorate
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Contact Information
- Academic Offices
Personal Information Email Tel (650) 723-9104Alternate Contact Elayna McCarty Administrative Associate Email Tel Work 725-0281
Professional Overview
Administrative Appointments
- Professor of Photon Science, SSRL (2005 - present)
Professional Education
| Postdoc: | California Inst. of Technology, Pasadena, CA, Bioinorganic (H. Gray) (1975) |
| Postdoc: | University of Copenhagen (H.C. Ørsted Inst.), Denmark, Phys. Inorg. (C.Ballhausen) (1974) |
| Postdoc: | Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., Chem. Phys. (D. McClure) (1973) |
| PhD: | Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., Phys. Chem (1972) |
| M.S.: | Princeton University, Princeton, N.J, Phys. Chem (1970) |
| B.S.: | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, Chemistry (1968) |
Postdoctoral Advisees
Lars Boettger, Ryan Cowley, Tatyana Karabencheva, Matthew Kieber-Emmons, Thomas Kroll, Lei Liu, Kiyoung Park, Martin Srnec, Ming Li Tsai
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Scientific Focus
Current Research Interests
The fields of Physical-Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry emphasizing the application of a wide variety of spectroscopic and computational methods to determine the electronic structure of transition metal complexes. Research is directed toward both high symmetry small molecule complexes to define in detail electronic structure contributions to chemical and physical properties, and metal ion active sites in catalysis to understand their unusual spectral features in terms of electronic and geometric structure and to evaluate these structural contributions to reactivity. The focus of many studies is on fundamental problems in Bioinorganic Chemistry. Areas of present interest include: 1) Electronic structure contributions to electron transfer in blue copper, CuA and iron sulfur sites; 2) O2 and N2O activation by Cu cluster active sites; 3) Structure/function correlations over non-heme iron enzymes; 4) Development of new spectroscopic and electronic structure methods in bioinorganic chemistry.
Publications
- Nuclear resonance vibrational spectroscopic and computational study of high-valent diiron complexes relevant to enzyme intermediates. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013; (16): 6275-80
- Nuclear resonance vibrational spectroscopy and DFT study of peroxo-bridged biferric complexes: structural insight into peroxo intermediates of binuclear non-heme iron enzymes. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2013; (4): 1294-8
- Analysis of resonance Raman data on the blue copper site in pseudoazurin: excited state π and σ charge transfer distortions and their relation to ground state reorganization energy. J Inorg Biochem. 2012: 155-62
- Spectroscopic elucidation of a new heme/copper dioxygen structure type: implications for O···O bond rupture in cytochrome c oxidase. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2012; (1): 168-72
- Structure/function correlations among coupled binuclear copper proteins through spectroscopic and reactivity studies of NspF. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012; (27): 10793-7
- Substrate and metal control of barrier heights for oxo transfer to Mo and W bis-dithiolene sites. Inorg Chem. 2012; (6): 3436-42
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