Molecular Spectroscopy and Molecular Structure: Commemorative Issue in Honor of Professor Austin J. Barnes on Occasion of his 75th Birthday
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Photochemistry".
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Interests: photochemistry; molecular cryo- and biospectroscopy; quantum chemistry; molecular structure; photophysics; chemometrics
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Department of Chemistry, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille 1, France
Interests: spectroscopy; characterization of materials; thin films; Alzheimer’s; glass structure and alteration; photonics; art and archeology; nanostructures
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2. Faculty of Sciences & Letters, Department of Physics, Istanbul Kultur University, Istanbul, Turkey
Interests: photochemistry; molecular cryo- and biospectroscopy; quantum chemistry; molecular structure; photophysics; chemometrics
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Dear Colleagues,
Molecules is very pleased to host this Special Issue in honor of Prof. Austin James Barnes, in acknowledgment of his influential scientific contributions in the fields of Molecular Spectroscopy and Molecular Structure., and we invite scientists to submit research article or review papers focusing on:
• Molecular structure;
• Molecular spectroscopy;
• Hydrogen bonding;
• Intermolecular interactions;
• Chemical reactivity, kinetics, and mechanisms;
• Transient species and reaction intermediates, weakly bound species and associates.
Austin James Barnes was born on 2 June 1945. He went to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, in 1963 and obtained his BA degree in 1966. He then moved to the University College of Swansea, where he was awarded his PhD degree in 1969 for research on infrared spectra of matrix-isolated species under the supervision of Dr. Harry Hallam, After a period of postdoctoral research in Swansea, he was appointed as a lecturer at the University of Salford in 1973, where he remained for the rest of his career. He was awarded a DSc degree by the University of Wales in 1986, and in 1991, was promoted to Reader. From 1996 to 1999, he served as Head of the Department of Chemistry and Applied Chemistry. He continued to teach on a part-time basis until 2005. He had a continued association with the University as an Honorary Visiting Professor until the end of 2015. Following on from his PhD work, Austin's principal research interests focused on infrared and Raman matrix isolation spectroscopy, particularly applied to the investigation of molecular interactions and conformational isomerism. Notable early work included the first reported use of a Fourier transform spectrometer to obtain far IR spectra of matrices, a critical review of the interpretation and prediction of matrix effects, and a study of experimental conditions for obtaining Raman spectra from matrices. Investigations of the conformational behavior of molecules trapped in matrices led to a proposed empirical relationship referred to by some authors as ‘the Barnes relation’. Austin's interests in strongly hydrogen-bonded systems have also extended to structural studies of ferroelectric crystals and nonlinear optical materials. He was one of the authors of an early report on the so-called ‘blue-shifting’ hydrogen bonds and has written a short review summarizing our knowledge of this phenomenon.
Austin has published about 125 research and review papers and edited many books and volumes of conference proceedings. He was awarded the Gold Medal of the University of Wroclaw, Poland, in 2008.
Austin served as President of the International Committee of the European Congress on Molecular Spectroscopy (EUCMOS) during the period 1994–2016, and from 1979 to 1993, he served as Assistant Editor to Professor W.J. Orville-Thomas for both the Journal of Molecular Structure and the Journal of Molecular Structure (THEOCHEM). In January 1994, he was appointed to act as an Editor of the Journal of Molecular Structure and continued in this role until the end of 2009, during which period more than 300 volumes were published. A Special Issue of the Journal in his honor was published in 2010.
It is our great pleasure to invite you to submit an article for a high-profile Special Issue in honor of Prof. Austin James Barnes, in celebration of his 75th birthday, to be published in Molecules.
Prof. Austin J. Barnes has been one of the most influential scientists in the fields of molecular structure and molecular spectroscopy, and his long scientific career has been an example to follow. However, Austin is also an exceptional human being and his friendship is priceless to us. This Special Issue in an unpretentious attempt to show him our esteem, in the occasion of his 75th birthday. We are sure that these feelings are shared by many around the world who have had the opportunity to meet Austin somewhere in one of the many international congresses he has organized or supported, and who, same as we, want to thank him for his outstanding scientific contributions to the field of molecular structure and molecular spectroscopy and also for his friendship.
Research articles on both technical developments and applications on molecular structure and molecular spectroscopy (see the provided keywords) are welcome for publication in this Special Issue, as are review articles and perspectives from experts in the field.
Prof. Dr. Rui Fausto
Prof. Dr. Sylvia Turrell
Dr. Gulce Ogruc Ildiz
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Molecular structure
- Molecular spectroscopy
- Hydrogen bonding
- Intermolecular interactions
- Chemical reactivity, kinetics and mechanisms
- Transient species and reaction intermediates, weakly bound species and associates
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