| People
- Faculty
- Professor:
Guillermo C. Bazan |
| Field(s): |
Organic Chemistry |
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| Email: |
bazan@chem.ucsb.edu |
| Phone: |
(805)
893-
5538 |
Fax:
(805)
893-
4120 |
| Office: |
2120 Chem |
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Selected
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| Bio: |
Dr. Bazan obtained his B.Sc. from the University of Ottawa. Moving to the US, he obtained his Ph.D. from MIT, and was a postdoctoral fellow at CalTech working with John Bercaw. He joined the UCSB Chemistry Department in July 1998 as Professor of organic chemistry. |
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Current
Research
We have an active program of research which bridges areas of organic chemistry, organometallic chemistry, polymers and materials science. One major research effort is focused upon the synthesis of conjugated emissive polymers and their use in fabricating new devices.
In a second area, we are researching the design of organometallic catalysts for mediation of polymerization reactions that can be used to convert petroleum feedstocks into useful organic intermediates. This research, which has lead to the development of catalysts with a very high selectivity for production of short-chain alpha-olefins, has received widespread attention with recent reports in C&E News (October 6, 1997) and in Science (October 3, 1997).
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| Selected
Research Publications |
| Shao, Y, Bazan, GC, et al. Long-lifetime polymer light-emitting electrochemical cells ADV MATER 19 (3): 365-+ FEB 5 2007 |
| Wang, FK, Bazan, GC, et al. Aggregation-mediated optical properties of pH-responsive anionic conjugated polyelectrolytes J AM CHEM SOC 128 (49): 15786-15792 DEC 13 2006. |
| Bazan, GC, Diamanti, S, et al. Mechanism and applications of the quasi-living polymerization of ethylene and functionalized norbornenes by Ni(alpha-iminocarboxamide) complexes ABSTR PAP AM CHEM S 231: - 58-INOR MAR 26 2006 |
| Hong, JW, Tretiak, S, Bazan, GC. Theoretical study of solvent effects on electronic structure and spectra of paracyclophane chromophores. ABSTR PAP AM CHEM S 229: U573-U573 894-ORGN Part 2 MAR 13 2005 |
| Liu, B, Bazan, GC. Optimization of the molecular orbital energies of conjugated polymers for optical amplification of fluorescent sensors J AM CHEM SOC 128 (4): 1188-1196 FEB 1 2006 |
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