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» Harry W. Gibson
Professor
Organic and Polymer Chemistry

hwgibson@vt.edu
office: 2105 Hahn Hall
phone: 540-231-5902

group web pages: http://www.chemistry.vt.edu/chem-dept/gibson/gibson.html

Education

B.S., 1962, Clarkson University, National Defense Education ActFellow, 1962-65
Ph.D., 1966, Clarkson University
Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. E. L. Eliel, Univ. of Notre Dame,1965-66

Research Interests

Dr. Gibson's general research interests range from synthetic to physical (e.g., kinetic, mechanistic studies of organic and polymeric materials,typically with a view toward developing molecular design criteria for tailored physical and/or chemical characteristics). The present research activitiesin the Gibson group can be divided into four major areas: Novel DendriticSystems Formed from Macrocyclic and Cryptand Units, Controlled/ "Living" Free Radical Polymerizations at Surfaces, Polyrotaxane Systems and Networks,and Supramolecular Structural Self Assembly.

Selected Publications

Yamaguchi, N,; Gibson, H. W. Non-covalent Chemical Modification of Crown Ether Side Chain Polymethacrylates with a Secondary Ammonium Salt: A New Polypseudorotaxane, Macromol. Chem. Phys., 2000, 201, 815-824.
Bryant, W. S.; Jones, J. W.; Mason, P. E.; Guzei, I.; Rheingold, A. L.; Fronczek, F. R.; Nagvekar, D. S.;Gibson, H. W. A New Cryptand: Synthesis and Complexation with Paraquat (Correction), Org. Lett., 2000, 2, 417-417.
Gibson, H. W.; Lee, S.-H. 42-Crown-14-Based [2]Catenane, Can. J. Chem.,2000, 78, 347-355.
Gibson, H. W. Book Review: "Advances in Dendritic Macromolecules, Vol. 4", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000, 122, 5903-5903.
Marciu, D.; Miller, M. B.; Heflin, J. R.; Murray, M. A.; Neyman, P. J.; Graupner, W.; Wang, H.; Gibson, H. W.; Davis, R. M. Characterization of Polymer Light-Emitting Diodes Fabricated by Ionically Self-Assembled Monolayer Technique, MRS Symp. Proc. 1999, 598, in press.

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