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Barry K. Carpenter

Barry K. Carpenter

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Chemistry

D-Index
61
Citations
12156
World Ranking
9317
National Ranking
524

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1989 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1986 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1980 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Barry K. Carpenter is affiliated with Cardiff University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple domains within chemistry, with a focus on organic chemistry and related subfields.

Their recent publications include the following papers:

  • A Conical Intersection Influences the Ground State Rearrangement of Fulvene to Benzene, 2022, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
  • Prediction of Kinetic Product Ratios: Investigation of a Dynamically Controlled Case, 2023, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
  • An argument for abandoning the "allowed" and "forbidden" classification of electrocyclic reactions, 2025, Chemical Science

Barry K. Carpenter has frequently published in:

  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
  • Chemical Science

Their coauthors on multiple projects include:

  • G. Barney Ellison
  • Mark R. Nimlos
  • Adam M. Scheer

The primary field of study for Barry K. Carpenter is chemistry. Within this, they have contributed to several subfields:

  • Organic Chemistry
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Molecular Biology
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics

Topics explored in their research cover a diverse range:

  • Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
  • Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds
  • Free Radicals and Antioxidants
  • Machine Learning in Materials Science
  • Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Computational Drug Discovery Methods
  • Organic Chemistry Cycloaddition Reactions

Throughout their career, Barry K. Carpenter has received recognition from several foundations and organizations, being named a fellow of:

  • American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1989
  • John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1986
  • Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1980

Best Publications

  • Electron Capture Dissociation for Structural Characterization of Multiply Charged Protein Cations

    Roman A. Zubarev;David M. Horn;Einar K. Fridriksson;Neil L. Kelleher

  • Electron Capture Dissociation of Gaseous Multiply-Charged Proteins Is Favored at Disulfide Bonds and Other Sites of High Hydrogen Atom Affinity

    Roman A. Zubarev;Nathan A. Kruger;Einar K. Fridriksson;Mark A. Lewis

  • Electron capture dissociation of gaseous multiply charged ions by Fourier-transform ion cyclotron resonance.

    Fred W. McLafferty;David M. Horn;Kathrin Breuker;Ying Ge

  • Ockham's Razor and Chemistry

    Roald Hoffmann;Vladimir I. Minkin;Barry K. Carpenter

  • Photolabile precursors of glutamate: synthesis, photochemical properties, and activation of glutamate receptors on a microsecond time scale

    Raymond Wieboldt;Kyle R. Gee;Li Niu;Doraiswamy Ramesh

  • Secondary and tertiary structures of gaseous protein ions characterized by electron capture dissociation mass spectrometry and photofragment spectroscopy.

    HanBin Oh;Kathrin Breuker;Siu Kwan Sze;Ying Ge

  • Nonstatistical dynamics in thermal reactions of polyatomic molecules.

    Barry K. Carpenter

  • HEAVY-ATOM TUNNELING AS THE DOMINANT PATHWAY IN A SOLUTION-PHASE REACTION? BOND SHIFT IN ANTIAROMATIC ANNULENES

    B. K. Carpenter

  • Do we fully understand what controls chemical selectivity

    Julia Rehbein;Barry K. Carpenter

  • Dynamic Behavior of Organic Reactive Intermediates.

    Barry K. Carpenter

  • The mechanism of rearrangement of chorismic acid and related compounds

    Joseph J. Gajewski;Jurjus Jurayj;Doris R. Kimbrough;Matthew E. Gande

  • Identification and quantification of kynurenic acid in human brain tissue.

    Waldemar A. Turski;Masayuki Nakamura;William P. Todd;Barry K. Carpenter

  • Synthesis, photochemistry, and biological activity of a caged photolabile acetylcholine receptor ligand.

    Tracy Milburn;Norio Matsubara;Andrew P. Billington;Jayant B. Udgaonkar

  • Intramolecular dynamics for the organic chemist

    Barry K. Carpenter

  • Nonergodic and conformational control of the electron capture dissociation of protein cations.

    Kathrin Breuker;HanBin Oh;Cheng Lin;Barry K. Carpenter

  • Dynamic Matching: The Cause of Inversion of Configuration in the [1,3] Sigmatropic Migration?

    Barry K. Carpenter

  • Photochemistry of aqueous pyruvic acid

    Elizabeth C. Griffith;Barry K. Carpenter;Richard K. Shoemaker;Veronica Vaida

  • Infrared photodissociation spectroscopy of electrosprayed ions in a Fourier transform mass spectrometer.

    Han-Bin Oh;Cheng Lin;Harold Y. Hwang;Huili Zhai

  • Limits on the activation parameters for automerization of cyclobutadiene-1,2-d2

    David W. Whitman;Barry K. Carpenter

  • Synthesis of photolabile precursors of amino acid neurotransmitters

    Mary Wilcox;Randall W. Viola;Katherine W. Johnson;Andrew P. Billington

Frequent Co-Authors

George P. Hess
George P. Hess Cornell University
Robert Schwarcz
Robert Schwarcz University of Maryland, Baltimore
Stephen Wiggins
Stephen Wiggins University of Bristol
Fred W. McLafferty
Fred W. McLafferty Cornell University
Veronica Vaida
Veronica Vaida University of Colorado Boulder
Peter Collins
Peter Collins Cardiff University
Roman A. Zubarev
Roman A. Zubarev Karolinska Institute
Kyle R. Gee
Kyle R. Gee Thermo Fisher Scientific (Norway)
Cynthia J. Burrows
Cynthia J. Burrows University of Utah
Neil L. Kelleher
Neil L. Kelleher Northwestern University

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