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Anna
D. Gudmundsdottir
Associate Professor,
Chemistry
PhD, University of British Columbia, 1993
Address:
802 Crosley
PO Box 210172
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0172
phone:
513-556-3380
fax: 513-556-9239
annag@uc.edu
http://www.che.uc.edu/annag/
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Biography:
Anna Gudmundsdottir is an Assistant Professor of Chemisty at the University of Cincinnati. She is a physical organic chemist with research interest in reactive intermediates, reaction mechanisms, organic photochemistry, solid state photoreactions and materials science.
After earning a BS degree from the University of Iceland, she obtained a M.Sc. and PhD from the University of British Columbia. She did her PhD dissertation with Professor J. R. Scheffer, studying asymmetric induction in the solid state. In 1994-95, she was a visiting scientist with Professor P. J. Wagner at the Michigan State University and investigated photoinduced radical cleavage reactions. Between 1996 and 1998, she was a NATO postdoctoral fellow with Professor M. S. Platz at The Ohio State University, studying reactive intermediates. In 1998, she joined the faculty at the University of Cincinnati. She studies reactive intermediates in solution and in the solid state, polyanilines and photoreleasable protecting groups for controlling photorelease in various applications. She was awarded an NSF CAREER Award (2001-2006) for her research on triplet alkyl nitrenes in solution and the solid state. Better understanding of these intermediates in the solid state is expected to lead to better design of organic crystals for new materials. Possible applications include photolithography, photoaffinity labels for biological molecules, and organic magnets.
Research Areas:
• Reactive Intermediates and Reaction Mechanism
• Transient Spectroscopy
• Photoreleasable Protecting Groups
• Photosynthesis
• Solid State Photochemistry
• Molecular Modeling of Intermediates
• Polyanilines
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