Chemistry Faculty:
Paul v.R. Schleyer, Ph.D.
Graham Perdue Professor
Phone: 706-542-7510
E-mail: schleyer@paul.chem.uga.edu
Biographical Information
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1957
Research Interests
Professor Schleyer received his A.B. from Princeton University in 1951 and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1957. He was the Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University before he accepted his present position (in 1976) as Co-director of the Organic Institute and (in 1993) of its Computer Chemistry Center at Erlangen University in Germany. Since 1990, he has been spending two months each year at The University of Georgia. A full appointment, beginning in September 1998, is under negotiation.
A Fellow of numerous learned societies, he was President of the World Association of Theoretically Oriented Chemists, WATOC (1990-96) and has co-authored or edited eleven books as well as more than 870 research papers. Schleyer was the eighth most cited chemist during 1984-91.
Professor Schleyer has served on numerous editorial boards. Along with Prof. N.L. Allinger, he has been coeditor of the Journal of Computational Chemistry since 1981, and is Editor in Chief of the Encyclopaedia of Computational Chemistry. Professor Schleyer's research interests encompassed many areas of organic, inorganic, and physical chemistry involving the application of computational methods. Areas of particular current interest include: the discovery of new molecular structures and new bonding principles; reactive intermediates and reactions paths; lithium, boron, and main group element chemistry; quantification of the aromaticity concept; the application of magnetic property computations to structural and bonding problems.
Publications
Andrew Streitwieser, Steven M. Bachrach, Andrea Dorigo, and Paul v.R. Schleyer. "Bonding, Structures and Energies in Organolithium Compounds." In Anne Marie Sapse and P.v.R. Schleyer, Eds., Lithium Chemistry, Wiley, 1995, Chap. 1, p. 165.
Paul v.R. Schleyer, Christoph Maerker, Peter Buzek, and Stefan Sieber. "Accurate Carbocation Structures: Verification of Computed Geometries by NMR, IR, and X-Ray Diffraction." In Stable Carbocation Chemistry, G.K. Surya Prakash and Paul v.R. Schleyer, Eds., Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1997, Chap. 2, p. 1974.
Paul v.R. Schleyer and Haijun Jiao. "What is Aromaticity?" Pure & Appl.Chem., 1996, 68, no. 2.
Klas Sorger, Paul v.R. Schleyer, Roland Fleischer, and Dietmar Stalke. "Toward Planar Tetracoordinate Carbon in the Puckered Ladder Structures of Chelated Cyclopropenyllithium Aggregates." J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1996, 118.
J. Grgen Kapp, Peter R. Schreiner, and Paul v.R. Schleyer. "CH3+ is the Most Trivial Carbocation, but are its Heavier Congeners Just Lookalikes?" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1996, 118.