People - Faculty - Professor: Clifford A. Bunton

Field(s): Physical Organic Chemistry 
Email: bunton@chem.ucsb.edu  
Phone: (805) 893- 2605   Fax: (805) 893- 4120
Office: 2217 Chem  
Selected Publications
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Bio: Dr. Bunton earned his Ph.D. (1944) at University College (London) where he remained until he joined the faculty at Santa Barbara in 1963. Dr. Bunton has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and was the American Chemical Society Tolman Medalist in 1987. Although he retired in 1990, Professor Bunton continues to carry on a very active research program in physical organic chemistry.

Current Research
Emeritus

Selected Research Publications
Conformational Differences in Stabilized Diketo and Diester Phosphonium Ylides in Solid and Solution. Castaneda, F.; Aliaga, C.; Garland, M.T.; Hu, J.; Gillitt, N.D.; Bunton, C.A. Phosphorus, Sulfur and Silicon 2007, 182, 151-160.
Differences in the crystal structures of two dialkyl diester triphenylphosphonium ylids. Castaneda, F.; Jullian, C.; Bunton, C.A.; Garland, M.T.; Baggio, R. Acta Cryst. 2007, C63, 267-270.
Cyano-stabilized triphenylphosphonium ylids. Castaneda, F.; Bunton, C.A.; Baggio, R.; Garland, M.T. Acta Cryst. 2007, C63, 65-67
Premicellar Accelerated Decarboxylation of 6-Nitrobenzisoxazole-3-carboxylate Ion and Its 5-Tetradecyloxy Derivative. Brinchi, L.; Di Profio, P.; Germani, R.; Goracci, L.; Savelli, G.; Gillitt, N.D.; Bunton, C.A. Langmuir 2007, 23, 436-442.
Premicellization of Dimethyl Di-n-Dodecylammonium Chloride. Gillitt, N.D.; Savelli,G.; Bunton, C.A. Langmuir 2006, 22, 5570-5571.
The dependence of micellar rate effects upon reaction mechanism. Bunton, C.A. . Advances in Colloid and Interface Sci. 2006, 123-126, 333-343.
The reaction of thioanisole with tetraperoxomolybdate in comicelles of Aliquat-336 and cetyl trimethylammonium mesylate. Yunes, S.J.; Gillitt, N.D.; Bunton,C.A. Colloids and Surfaces A. 2006, 281, 1-7.


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