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Luther Erickson
William F. Dodge Professor of Chemistry - Emeritus

Luther Erickson Office: S 2201
Phone: 641-269-3011
Email: ericksol@grinnell.edu


B.A. (with honors in chemistry), 1955, St. Olaf College.
Ph.D. in chemistry, 1959, Univ. of Wisconsin.

Research
Professor Erickson has maintained an active research program in nuclear magnetic resonance (nmr) spectroscopy, the co-ordination chemistry of platinum group metals, kinetics and mechanisms of solution reactions, molecular mechanics and molecular modeling. Nearly 100 undergraduate students have worked with him on this research which is reported in over 30 publications--most with Grinnell undergraduate co-authors--in the primary literature.

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Recent Publications
  • Erickson, L. E.; Bailey, P. D.; Kimball, T. L.; Morgan, B. R. "Sterochemistry of platinum complexes of the neutral amino acids allylglycine, S-methylcysteine, methionine, and corresponding sulfoxides," Inorganica Chimica Acta, 2003, 346, pp169-180.

  • Erickson, L. E.; Morris, K. F. "The Energy Profile for Rotation about the C-C Bond in Substituted Ethanes. A Multi-part Experimental and Computational Project for the Physical Chemistry Laboratory", J. Chem. Ed., 1998, 75, 900-906.

  • Erickson, L. E.; Hayes, P.; Hooper, J. J.; Morris, K. F.; Newbrough, S. A.; Van Os, M.; Slangan, P. "Olefin-Amino Acid Complexes of Platinum(II). 2. An NMR Study of the Effect of Olefin Structure on the Stability and on the Stereoselectivity of Binding for _2-coordinated Pro-chiral Olefins", Inorg. Chem., 1997, 36, 284-290.

  • Erickson, L. E.; Morris, K. F.; Panajotova, B. V.; Jiang, D. W.; Ding, F. "Olefin Amino Acid Complexes of Platinum (II). 3. NOE Difference and Low Temperature NMR Determinations of Rotamer Populations of Coordinated Olefins and the Stereoselectivity of Coordination of Prochiral Olefins," Inorg. Chem., 1997, 36, 601-607.

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