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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Chemical Society
  • 2003 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1985 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Bruce E. Bursten is affiliated with the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in the United States. Their research contributions span the field of Chemistry, with a particular focus on Inorganic Chemistry and Organic Chemistry. The main topics of Bruce E. Bursten's work include organometallic complex synthesis and catalysis, inorganic chemistry and materials, and the synthesis and characterization of novel inorganic and organometallic compounds.

Bruce E. Bursten has published in notable venues, with a recent paper titled Molecular and Electronic Structural Studies of d3-d3 and d5-d5 M2R6 Complexes (M = Mo, Ru; R = CH3, CH2CMe3): On the Interplay of Metal-Metal Bond Order and MR3 Pyramidalization, published in 2025 in Inorganic Chemistry.

Frequent co-authors of Bruce E. Bursten include:

  • Thomas E. Shaw
  • Charlotte L. Stern
  • Titel Jurca
  • Jennifer C. Green
  • Alfred P. Sattelberger

Their work is distributed primarily across the following venues:

  • Inorganic Chemistry

Bruce E. Bursten's scholarly output in Chemistry comprises three publications, two of which are in Inorganic Chemistry and one in Organic Chemistry. The research encompasses detailed studies of organometallic complexes and characterizations that contribute to understanding metal-metal interactions and catalytic processes.

The scientist has received several distinctions, including being named a Fellow of the American Chemical Society in 2010, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2003, and a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1985.

Best Publications

  • Quimica. La ciencia central

    Theodore L. Brown;H. Eugene LeMay;Bruce E. Bursten;Julia R. Burdge

  • The electronic structure of actinide-containing molecules: a challenge to applied quantum chemistry

    Melanie. Pepper;Bruce E. Bursten

  • Structure and Bonding in SnWO4, PbWO4, and BiVO4: Lone Pairs vs Inert Pairs

    Matthew W. Stoltzfus;Patrick M. Woodward;Ram Seshadri;Jae-Hyun Klepeis

  • Noble gas-actinide compounds: complexation of the CUO molecule by Ar, Kr, and Xe atoms in noble gas matrices.

    Jun Li;Jun Li;Bruce E. Bursten;Binyong Liang;Lester Andrews

  • Neptunium redox speciation

    R. Antonio;L. Soderholm;C.W. Williams;J.-P. Blaudeau

  • An Xα optimized atomic orbital basis

    Bruce E. Bursten;J. Robert Jensen;Richard F. Fenske

  • Alkoxy and aryloxy derivatives of (pentamethylcyclopentadienyl)ruthenium. X-ray crystal structures of [(.eta.5-C5Me5)Ru(.mu.-OMe)]2, [(.eta.5-C5Me5)(CO)Ru(.mu.-OEt)]2, and (.eta.5-C5Me5)Ru(.eta.5-2,6-tBu2C6H3O) and molecular orbital analysis of [(.eta.5-C5H5)Ru(.mu.-OMe)]2

    Stefan D. Loren;Brian K. Campion;Richard H. Heyn;T. Don Tilley

  • Structure relations between the four-coordinate, S = 1, macrocyclic complex, [Fe(C22H22N4)], and the neutral ligand, C22H24N4

    Virgil L. Goedken;Joseph J. Pluth;Shie-Ming Peng;Bruce Bursten

  • Dinuclear, 18-electron species having a triplet ground state: isolation, characterization, and crystal structure of photogenerated (.eta.5-C5Me5)2Fe2(.mu.-CO)3

    Josephine Paw Blaha;Bruce E. Bursten;John C. Dewan;Richard B. Frankel

  • Bonding in tris(.eta.5-cyclopentadienyl) actinide complexes. 5. A comparison of the bonding in neptunium, plutonium, and transplutonium compounds with that in lanthanide compounds and a transition-metal analog

    Richard J. Strittmatter;Bruce E. Bursten

  • ON THE POSSIBLE STRUCTURES OF MN2(CO)8 : THEORETICAL SUPPORT FOR AN UNPRECEDENTED ASYMMETRIC UNBRIDGED ISOMER

    Timothy A. Barckholtz;Bruce E. Bursten

  • Noble gas-actinide complexes of the CUO molecule with multiple Ar, Kr, and Xe atoms in noble-gas matrices.

    Lester Andrews;Binyong Liang;Jun Li;Bruce E. Bursten

  • Reaction of Laser-Ablated Uranium Atoms with CO: Infrared Spectra of the CUO, CUO-, OUCCO, (η2-C2)UO2, and U(CO)x (x = 1−6) Molecules in Solid Neon

    Mingfei Zhou;Lester Andrews;Jun Li;Bruce E. Bursten

  • Cyclopentadienyl—Actinide Complexes: Bonding and Electronic Structure

    Bruce E. Bursten;Richard J. Strittmatter

  • Effects of peripheral steric constraints and metal ion size on the structure of three five-coordinate macrocyclic ligand complexes of the type [M(C22H22N4)X], M = cobalt(III), iron(III), manganese(II); X = iodine, chlorine, triethylamine

    Marvin C. Weiss;Bruce Bursten;Shie-Ming Peng;Virgil L. Goedken

  • Ligand additivity: applications to the electrochemistry and photoelectron spectroscopy of d6 octahedral complexes

    Bruce E. Bursten

  • Theoretical investigations of uranyl-ligand bonding: four- and five-coordinate uranyl cyanide, isocyanide, carbonyl, and hydroxide complexes.

    Jason L Sonnenberg;P Jeffrey Hay;Richard L Martin;Bruce E Bursten

  • Ab initio relativistic effective potentials with spin-orbit operators. VII. Am through element 118

    Clinton S. Nash;Bruce E. Bursten;Walter C. Ermler

  • Covalency in f-element organometallic complexes: theory and experiment

    Carol J. Burns;Bruce E. Bursten

  • Bonding in tris(.eta.5-cyclopentadienyl) actinide complexes. 2. The ground electronic configurations of "base-free" Cp3An complexes (An = thorium, protactinium, uranium, neptunium, plutonium)

    Bruce E. Bursten;Larry F. Rhodes;Richard J. Strittmatter

Frequent Co-Authors

Jun Li
Jun Li Tsinghua University
Lester Andrews
Lester Andrews University of Virginia
Malcolm H. Chisholm
Malcolm H. Chisholm The Ohio State University
F. Albert Cotton
F. Albert Cotton Texas A&M University
Catherine J. Murphy
Catherine J. Murphy University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Theodore L. Brown
Theodore L. Brown University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
William F. Schneider
William F. Schneider University of Notre Dame
David Clark
David Clark University of Glasgow
Richard L. Martin
Richard L. Martin Los Alamos National Laboratory
Jennifer C. Green
Jennifer C. Green University of Oxford

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