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<\/span><\/div>Dr. Jeff Woodford<\/h2><\/div>Title:<\/strong><\/span> Professor<\/span><\/span>
\nEmail:<\/strong> jwoodford@missouriwestern.edu<\/a><\/span>
\nPhone:<\/strong> (816)271-5671<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Research Interests<\/h2><\/div>Physical chemistry, computational studies of peroxide explosives, and computational studies of metal organic frameworks.<\/p>\n<\/div>
Education\/Academic Qualifications<\/h2><\/div>Ph.D., University of Nebraska
\nB.S., Carnegie Mellon<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/div>Pseudo-Jahn-Teller Effect<\/h2><\/div>The Jahn-Teller Effect, discovered in 1937, is a quantum-mechanical phenomenon in which highly symmetric molecules have their symmetry broken by interaction between the electronic states of a molecule and its vibrational modes. While this effect has been widely used to understand the structure of inorganic materials, comparatively less work has been devoted to understanding this effect in common organic materials. In this project, a related form of the Jahn-Teller Effect, known as the Pseudo-Jahn-Teller effect, is studied computationally to understand symmetry breaking phenomena such as ring puckering, pseudorotation and intramolecular hydrogen bonding, in small organic molecules.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/div><\/div>Peroxide Explosives<\/h2><\/div>Peroxide explosives such as diacetone diperoxide (DADP) and triacetone triperoxide (TATP) have been implicated in numerous terrorist incidents around the world, chiefly because these compounds are relatively easy to synthesize by amateurs using commonly available consumer products. In this research program, the synthesis of these explosives are modeled computationally, with an aim towards understanding the specific steps towards their synthesis so that it may be better controlled and regulated.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/div>Publications<\/h2><\/div>Woodford, J., Bednar, V., Elliott, W., Byrd, E. (2012). Dimer self-association via hydrogen bonding: measurement and comparison of binding constants. Chemical Physics Letters, 547, 24-29.<\/p>\n
Jeffery Woodford, \u201cDensity Functional Theory and Atoms-in-Molecules Investigation of Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonding in Derivatives of Malonaldehyde and Implications for Resonance-Assisted Hydrogen Bonding\u201d J. Phys. Chem. A, 2007, 111 (34), 8519\u20138530.<\/p>\n
CH Wang, JN Woodford, C Zhang, LR Dalton, \u201cResonant and nonresonant hyper\u2013Rayleigh scattering of charge-transfer chromophores\u201d J. Appl. Phys., 2001, 89(8), 4209-4217.<\/p>\n<\/div>
Presentations<\/h2><\/div>Woodford, J., Frazier, S., 48th Midwest Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, \u201cComputational study on the mechanism of formation of diacetone diperoxide,\u201d American Chemical Society, Springfield, MO. (October 2013).<\/p>\n
Freeman, D., Edlin, M., Harms, N., Ho, X., McKinley, T., Moore, A., Morrow, D., Phillips, C., Woodford, J., 48th Midwest Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, \u201cDetermination of dimerization constant of N-(isoquinolin-3-yl)benzamide and N-(isoquinolin-2-yl)benzamide,\u201d American Chemical Society, Springfield, MO. (October 2013).<\/p>\n
Loftin, J. N., Lovejoy, J. M., Woodford, J., 245th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, \u201cComputer simulation of anion adsorption to metal organic frameworks.,\u201d American Chemical Society, New Orleans, LA. (April 2013).<\/p>\n
Woodford, J., Frazier, S., 47th Midwest Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, \u201cComputational Study of Intermediates Involved in Diacetone Diperoxide Synthesis,\u201d American Chemical Society, Omaha, NE. (October 25, 2012).<\/p>\n
Woodford, J. and Frazier, S., PORTAL Research Symposium, \u201cComputational Study of Intermediates Involved in Diacetone Diperoxide Synthesis,\u201d º¬Ðß²ÝÉçÇø, Saint Joseph, MO. (September 20, 2012).<\/p>\n
Woodford, J., Christian, S., and Winn, W. W., 243rd National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, \u201cAb initio study of the chemical transformations leading to the formation of DADP,\u201d American Chemical Society, San Diego, CA. (March 27, 2012).<\/p>\n
Christian, S., Winn, W. W., and Woodford, J., 46th Midwest\/39th Great Lakes Joint Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, \u201cTheoretical studies of a cyclic peroxide reactive intermediate,\u201d American Chemical Society, Saint Louis, MO. (October 20, 2011).<\/p>\n
Winn, W. W., Christian, S., and Woodford, J., Western Student Summer Research Projects, \u201cQuantum Chemistry on Peroxide Explosive Intermediates,\u201d MWSU, Saint Joseph, MO. (September 14, 2011).<\/p>\n
Woodford, J., 241st National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, \u201cHigh-level ab initio energies of 2-pyridone and 4-pyrimidinone tautomers,\u201d American Chemical Society, Anaheim, CA. (March 29, 2011).<\/p>\n
Melton, A. D., King, S. L., Rawlings, T. C., King, M., Turner, H., Cozad, K. D., Janssen, B. M., Lane, C. E., Limle, A. B., Rogers, J. D., Caldwell, B., and Woodford, J., 241st National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, \u201cKinetic study of the esterase activity of albumins,\u201d American Chemical Society, Anaheim, CA. (March 28, 2011).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2421","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-research-profile"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/cmp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/cmp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/cmp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/cmp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/cmp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2421"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/cmp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2425,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/cmp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2421\/revisions\/2425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/cmp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/cmp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/cmp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Title:<\/strong><\/span> Professor<\/span><\/span> Physical chemistry, computational studies of peroxide explosives, and computational studies of metal organic frameworks.<\/p>\n<\/div> Ph.D., University of Nebraska The Jahn-Teller Effect, discovered in 1937, is a quantum-mechanical phenomenon in which highly symmetric molecules have their symmetry broken by interaction between the electronic states of a molecule and its vibrational modes. While this effect has been widely used to understand the structure of inorganic materials, comparatively less work has been devoted to understanding this effect in common organic materials. In this project, a related form of the Jahn-Teller Effect, known as the Pseudo-Jahn-Teller effect, is studied computationally to understand symmetry breaking phenomena such as ring puckering, pseudorotation and intramolecular hydrogen bonding, in small organic molecules.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div> Peroxide explosives such as diacetone diperoxide (DADP) and triacetone triperoxide (TATP) have been implicated in numerous terrorist incidents around the world, chiefly because these compounds are relatively easy to synthesize by amateurs using commonly available consumer products. In this research program, the synthesis of these explosives are modeled computationally, with an aim towards understanding the specific steps towards their synthesis so that it may be better controlled and regulated.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div> Woodford, J., Bednar, V., Elliott, W., Byrd, E. (2012). Dimer self-association via hydrogen bonding: measurement and comparison of binding constants. Chemical Physics Letters, 547, 24-29.<\/p>\n Jeffery Woodford, \u201cDensity Functional Theory and Atoms-in-Molecules Investigation of Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonding in Derivatives of Malonaldehyde and Implications for Resonance-Assisted Hydrogen Bonding\u201d J. Phys. Chem. A, 2007, 111 (34), 8519\u20138530.<\/p>\n CH Wang, JN Woodford, C Zhang, LR Dalton, \u201cResonant and nonresonant hyper\u2013Rayleigh scattering of charge-transfer chromophores\u201d J. Appl. Phys., 2001, 89(8), 4209-4217.<\/p>\n<\/div> Woodford, J., Frazier, S., 48th Midwest Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, \u201cComputational study on the mechanism of formation of diacetone diperoxide,\u201d American Chemical Society, Springfield, MO. (October 2013).<\/p>\n Freeman, D., Edlin, M., Harms, N., Ho, X., McKinley, T., Moore, A., Morrow, D., Phillips, C., Woodford, J., 48th Midwest Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, \u201cDetermination of dimerization constant of N-(isoquinolin-3-yl)benzamide and N-(isoquinolin-2-yl)benzamide,\u201d American Chemical Society, Springfield, MO. (October 2013).<\/p>\n Loftin, J. N., Lovejoy, J. M., Woodford, J., 245th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, \u201cComputer simulation of anion adsorption to metal organic frameworks.,\u201d American Chemical Society, New Orleans, LA. (April 2013).<\/p>\n Woodford, J., Frazier, S., 47th Midwest Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, \u201cComputational Study of Intermediates Involved in Diacetone Diperoxide Synthesis,\u201d American Chemical Society, Omaha, NE. (October 25, 2012).<\/p>\n Woodford, J. and Frazier, S., PORTAL Research Symposium, \u201cComputational Study of Intermediates Involved in Diacetone Diperoxide Synthesis,\u201d º¬Ðß²ÝÉçÇø, Saint Joseph, MO. (September 20, 2012).<\/p>\n Woodford, J., Christian, S., and Winn, W. W., 243rd National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, \u201cAb initio study of the chemical transformations leading to the formation of DADP,\u201d American Chemical Society, San Diego, CA. (March 27, 2012).<\/p>\n Christian, S., Winn, W. W., and Woodford, J., 46th Midwest\/39th Great Lakes Joint Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, \u201cTheoretical studies of a cyclic peroxide reactive intermediate,\u201d American Chemical Society, Saint Louis, MO. (October 20, 2011).<\/p>\n Winn, W. W., Christian, S., and Woodford, J., Western Student Summer Research Projects, \u201cQuantum Chemistry on Peroxide Explosive Intermediates,\u201d MWSU, Saint Joseph, MO. (September 14, 2011).<\/p>\n Woodford, J., 241st National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, \u201cHigh-level ab initio energies of 2-pyridone and 4-pyrimidinone tautomers,\u201d American Chemical Society, Anaheim, CA. (March 29, 2011).<\/p>\n Melton, A. D., King, S. L., Rawlings, T. C., King, M., Turner, H., Cozad, K. D., Janssen, B. M., Lane, C. E., Limle, A. B., Rogers, J. D., Caldwell, B., and Woodford, J., 241st National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, \u201cKinetic study of the esterase activity of albumins,\u201d American Chemical Society, Anaheim, CA. (March 28, 2011).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2421","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-research-profile"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/cmp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/cmp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/cmp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/cmp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/cmp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2421"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/cmp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2425,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/cmp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2421\/revisions\/2425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/cmp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/cmp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/cmp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nEmail:<\/strong> jwoodford@missouriwestern.edu<\/a><\/span>
\nPhone:<\/strong> (816)271-5671<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>Research Interests<\/h2><\/div>
Education\/Academic Qualifications<\/h2><\/div>
\nB.S., Carnegie Mellon<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Pseudo-Jahn-Teller Effect<\/h2><\/div>
Peroxide Explosives<\/h2><\/div>
Publications<\/h2><\/div>
Presentations<\/h2><\/div>