RESUME: RICHARD E. BROWN
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Department of Chemistry
Michigan Technological University
Houghton, MI 49931
Office: (906) 487-2383
Home: (906) 482-4784
Professor
Bloomington, IL, USA
Married, two daughters
USA
5'8"
145 lb.
Email: rebrown@mtu.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in physical chemistry, 1967; Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana; Advisor: Harrison
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Shull; Thesis: "A Configuration Interaction Study of the Σ States of the LiH
Molecule."
B.Sc. in chemistry, 1962; University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
POSITIONS HELD
1991-present: Professor, Department of Chemistry, Michigan Technological University,
Houghton, MI 49931
2000-2001: Sabbatical Leave at the Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor, MI 48109
1997-1999, Associate Chair, Department of Chemistry, Michigan Technological University,
Houghton, MI 49931
1993-1994: Sabbatical Leave at the Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University, Detroit,
MI 48202.
1980-1991: Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Michigan Technology University,
Houghton, MI 49931
1986-1987: Sabbatical leave at the Quantum Theory Project, University of Florida, Gainesville;
Research carried out in the CC/MBPT group of R.J. Bartlett.
1977-1980: Manager of Academic Computing Services, State University of New York/Buffalo,
Amherst, NY; managed 14 full-time and 25 part-time staff.
1974-1977; Associate Professor, Instituto de Quimica, Universidade Estadual de Campinas,
C.P. 1170, 13.100 Campinas, S.P., Brazil.
1973-1974: Professor, Department of Chemistry, Champlain Regional College, P.O. Box 1380,
Lennoxville, Quebec.
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1971-1973: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, Queen's University, Kingston, Ont.
A temporary appointment for sabbatical leave replacement.
1969-1971: Teaching and Research Associate, Dept. of Chemistry, Queen's University,
Kingston, Ont.
1967-1969: N.I.H. Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Quantum Chemistry, University of
Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden. Worked under Professor P.O. Lowdin
1962-1967: Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Chemistry, Indiana University,
Bloomington, Ind. Worked under direction of Professor H. Shull
SOCIETIES AND HONORS
American Men and Women of Science
University of Illinois Honors Student
Fellowship
Un of Illinois Undergraduate Honors
Fellowship
Un of Illinois Honors Program in
Mathematics
Phi Eta Sigma
Phi Lambda Upsilon
Sigma Xi
American Chemical Society
NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship
Who’s Who in America
SABBATICAL LEAVE EXPERIENCE
2000-2001: This sabbatical leave for the 2000-2001 academic year is in the Department of
Chemistry at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. My interests are to develop expertise in
modeling large biological systems and to gain insight into the research and instructional structure
of this nationally renown department. My research is to be coordinated with that going on in the
group of Vincent Massey in the Department of Biochemistry. Additionally, I will be involved in
the teaching of physical chemistry and first year chemistry which are programmatically
structured quite differently than that at MTU.
1993-1994: My second sabbatical was taken at the Department of Chemistry at Wayne State
University where I worked in the group of H.B. Schlegel. Most of my effort was spent on the
HF anion cluster problem, the bisulfite anion problem, and the iminoxy radical problem, all of
which resulted in manuscript submissions. My intent to finalize these projects and develop some
familiarity with methods of including solvent effects was successful.
1986-1987: My sabbatical leave during the 1986-1987 academic year was spent at the Quantum
Theory Project at the University of Florida working in the research group of Dr. Rodney J.
Bartlett. My intent was to gain some useful experience in the Many Body Perturbation Theory
methods as developed by Dr. Bartlett as well as producing some publishable work. Both aspects
of this intent were successful - My current work on the carbon acids and large anion clusters rely
heavily on these methods.
SOME SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
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R.E. Brown, A.M. Simas and R.E. Bruns, "A Molecular Orbital Study of the Chloramphenicol
Family of Drugs: A Preliminary Study," Int. J. Quant. Chem., Quant. Biology
Symposium, 4, 357 (1977)
V.H. Smith, Jr., A. Thakkar, W.H. Henneker, J.W. Liu, B. Liu and R.E. Brown, "Accurate
Compton Profiles for Molecular Hydrogen Including the Effects of Electronic
Correlation and Molecular Vibration and Rotation," J. Chem. Phys., 67, 3676 (1977)
R.E. Bruns and R.E. Brown, "Mean Dipole Moment Derivatives, Atomic Anisotropies and
Effective Charges on Diatomic Hydrides," J. Chem. Phys., 68, 880 (1978)
J.P. Colpa and R.E. Brown, "The Inequality Formulation of Hund's Rule and a Reinterpretation
of Singlet-Triplet Energy Differences, Generalized for the Excited States of Molecules in
Their Equilibrium Position," J. Chem. Phys., 68, 4248 (1978)
A.M. Simas, R.E. Bruns and R.E. Brown, "An Extended Isolated Molecule Method and Its
Application in the Design of New Drugs: General Aspects," in Quasar: Quantitative
Structure Activity Relationships of Analagesics, Narcotic Antagonists, and
Hallucinogens, National Institute on Drug Abuse Monograph 22, (G. Barnett, M. Trsic,
and R. Wellatte, eds.) 1978, p. 317
R.E. Brown and A.M. Simas, "On the Applicability of CNDO Indices for the Prediction of
Chemical Reactivity," Theoret. Chem. Acta, 62, 1(1982)
R.E. Brown and J.P. Colpa, "SCF and CI Studies of Hund's Rules for the Effects of Electronic
Correlation and Delocalization: I" Int. J. Quant. Chem., 24, 593-602 (1983)
R.E. Brown and B.J. Brown, "Liposome-Saline Partitioning for the Chloramphenicol Family of
Drugs," Proceedings of the First International Telesymposium on QSAR in Design of
Bioactive Compounds, J.R. Prous, Barcelona, (1985), p.13
R.E. Brown, G.D. Mendenhall and R.J. Bartlett, "Ab Initio Studies of Hyponitrous Acid," Int. J.
Quant. Chem., S21, 603 (1987)
R.E. Brown, Q. Zhang and R.J. Bartlett, "Coupled Cluster Studies on the Hydrogen Bonded
Complexes between Hydrogen Fluoride and Hydroxylamine," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 113,
5248 (1991)
R.E. Brown and F. Barber, "Ab Initio Studies on the Thermochemistry of the Bisulfite and
Sulfonate Ions and Related Compounds," J. Phys. Chem. 99, 8071 (1995)
A. T. Bauman, G. M. Chateauneuf, B. R. Boyd, R. E. Brown and P. P. Murthy, “ Conformational Inversion Processes in Phytic Acid: NMR Spectroscopic and Molecular Modeling Studies”, Tetrahedron Letters, 40, 4489 ( 1999).
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Q. Zhang and R.E. Brown, "The Structure and Thermodynamic Stabilities of the Anionic
Clusters of Hydrogen Fluoride," J. of Molecular Structure (Theochem), 527, 81 (2000).
R. E. Brown, G. M. Chateanuef, P.R. Klassen, R. L. Luck, and G. D. Mendenhall, “Synthesis,
Variable Temperature 1H NMR, Single Crytstal X-ray Determined and Ab-Initio Molecular
Structural Analyses on 1-(Isopropylideneaminomethylpyrene”, J. Molec. Struct., 561, 331
(2001).
G. M. Chateauneuf, R. E. Brown and B. J. Brown, “Computational Studies of Electron Transfer
Processes in Old Yellow Enzyme”, Int. J. Quant. Chem., 85, 685-692 (2001).
C. J. Volkmann, G. M. Chateauneuf, J. Pradhan, A. T. Bauman, R. E. Brown, P. N. Murthy,
“Conformational Flexibility of Inositol Phosphates: Influence of Structural Characteristics”,
Tetrahedron Letters, 43, 4853-4856 (2002).
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Chemistry and the Ecology
Physical Chemistry I, II, and III
Special Topics in Theoretical Chemistry
Physical Chemistry Laboratory, I, II, and III
Classical Thermodynamics
Statistical Thermodyanamics
Kinetics and Molecular Dynamics
Quantum Chemistry
Computational Chemistry
First Year Chemistry I & II
First Year Physics I & II
Elementary Quantum Chemistry
Advanced Quantum Chemistry
Elementary Organic Chemistry
Organic Chemistry Laboratory
MO Theory for Organic Chemistry
Applied Computational Chemistry
Scientific Programming with FORTRAN
GRADUATE ACADEMIC WORK SUPERVISED
Alfredo M. Simas, Instituto de Quimica, Universidade Estadua de Campinas, Campinas, SP,
Brazil; M.Sc. Thesis, 1976-1977; thesis completed July, 1977
Qingguao Zhang, Department of Chemistry, Michigan Technological University, Houghton,
MI; M.Sc., 1999-2001; thesis completed August, 1990
Lin Chen, Department of Chemistry, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI; M.Sc.,
1989-1991; thesis completed Jun, 1991
Rob M. Dettman, Department of Chemistry, Michigan Technological University, Houghton,
MI; Ph.D., 1995-97, left program..
Ginger Chateuaneuf, Department of Chemistry, Michigan Technological University, Houghton,
MI, Ph.D. 1997-2001; thesis completed Dec, 2001.
Xin Wang, Department of Chemistry, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI,
M.Sc., 1999-present.
Ping Yang, Department of Chemistry, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI,
Ph.D., 2000-present.
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Xin Bai, Department of Chemistry, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, Ph.D.,
2000-present.
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