Dr. Jeremy Kua Department of Chemistry Office: ST 381 Phone: (619) 260-7970 e-mail Address:

Courses Taught in Fall 2009
Chem 105    Physical Science for K-8 Teachers
Chem 151    General Chemistry Lecture (Honors Preceptorial)
Chem 311    Physical Chemistry (Quantum)

Some Course Web Pages from recent years

What is computational chemistry? Look at some of the Introduction links in my Resources for Computational Chemistry page.

What is self-assembly? Here's what Wikipedia says. Also see some excellent examples from the Whitesides Research Group at Harvard. And some nice pictures and descriptions of self-assembly in the kitchen and more.

Current/potential projects for 2009-2010
Interested in working on a research project in computational chemistry? Come by my office and talk to me. [Potential credit for Chem 496 during the semester; funding available during the summer.]

1. Ion and ligand solvation with application to self-organizing metal organic frameworks and organometallic catalysis.
2. Self-assembly of transition metal benzene clusters.
3. Kinetics and Thermodynamics of triorganoboroxines and their base adducts.
4. Self-assembly of Boron-containing covalent organic frameworks.
5. Oligomerization of glyoxal and its derivatives.
6. Self-assembly of SbCl3 and dioxane.

What are we currently working on? Kua Research Group
You can also look at the mini-poster on the door to our research lab (SCST 335).

External funding:
Camille & Henry Dreyfus Faculty Start-up Grant (08/2004-08/2010)
Research Corporation CCSA (06/2005-08/2007)
ACS-Petroleum Research Fund (09/2007-09/2010)

Publications

Computational Research Experience (i.e., projects I've worked on throughout my career)

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