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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1996 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

David A. Lightner is affiliated with the University of Nevada Reno in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Chemistry, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Within these areas, Lightner focuses on subfields such as Spectroscopy, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The primary research topics associated with Lightner include:

  • Neonatal Health and Biochemistry
  • Molecular spectroscopy and chirality
  • Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection
  • Hemoglobin structure and function
  • Heme Oxygenase-1 and Carbon Monoxide
  • Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
  • Protein Structure and Dynamics

Lightner has published in venues such as:

  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • Molecules
  • Symmetry

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Biliverdin chiral derivatives as chiroptical switches for pH and metal cation sensing," 2021, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • "Insights into the Structures of Bilirubin and Biliverdin from Vibrational and Electronic Circular Dichroism: History and Perspectives," 2023, Molecules
  • "Vibrational Circular Dichroism Detects Symmetry Breaking due to Conformational Mobility in C2-Symmetry Chiral Molecules and Provides Further Insight into Inter-Chromophoric Interactions," 2020, Symmetry

Frequent collaborators in Lightner's research include Sergio Abbate, Giuseppe Mazzeo, Stefan E. Boiadjiev, Giovanna Longhi, and Simone Ghidinelli. These partnerships have contributed to studies related to spectroscopy and molecular phenomena.

In recognition of their contributions to science, David A. Lightner was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1996.

Best Publications

  • Bilirubin conformational analysis and circular dichroism

    Richard V. Person;Blake R. Peterson;David A. Lightner

  • Blue Light and Bilirubin Excretion

    Antony F. McDonagh;Lucita A. Palma;David A. Lightner

  • Organic conformational analysis and stereochemistry from circular dichroism spectroscopy

    David A. Lightner;Jerome E. Gurst

  • Helical Sense-Responsive and Substituent-Sensitive Features in Vibrational and Electronic Circular Dichroism, in Circularly Polarized Luminescence, and in Raman Spectra of Some Simple Optically Active Hexahelicenes

    Sergio Abbate;Giovanna Longhi;Ettore Castiglioni

  • Complementarity and chiral recognition: enantioselective complexation of bilirubin

    D. A. Lightner;J. K. Gawronski;W. M. D. Wijekoon

  • Phototherapy for neonatal jaundice. Configurational isomers of bilirubin

    Antony F. McDonagh;Lucita A. Palma;Francesc R. Trull;David A. Lightner

  • Hexahelicene. Absolute configuration

    David A. Lightner;Daniel T. Hefelfinger;Thomas W. Powers;Gerard W. Frank

  • Absolute configuration of bilirubin conformational enantiomers

    Stefan E. Boiadjiev;Richard V. Person;Gisbert Puzicha;Carolyn Knobler

  • PHOTOTHERAPY FOR NEONATAL JAUNDICE. STEREOSPECIFIC AND REGIOSELECTIVE PHOTOISOMERIZATION OF BILIRUBIN BOUND TO HUMAN SERUM ALBUMIN AND NMR CHARACTERIZATION OF INTRAMOLECULARLY CYCLIZED PHOTOPRODUCTS

    Antony F. McDonagh;Lucita A. Palma;David A. Lightner

  • Mass spectrometry in structural and stereochemical problems. CXXIV. Mass spectral fragmentation of alkylquinolines and isoquinolines.

    Shelia D. Sample;David A. Lightner;Ole Buchardt;Carl Djerassi

  • On the structure of albumin-bound bilirubin. Selective binding of intramolecularly hydrogen-bonded conformational enantiomers.

    D A Lightner;M Reisinger;G L Landen

  • On the structure of bilirubin in solution. 13C[1H] heteronuclear Overhauser effect NMR analyses in aqueous buffer and organic solvents

    Daniel Nogales;David A. Lightner

  • Massenspektroskopie und IHRE anwendung auf strukturelle und stereochemische probleme—LXVIII: Massenspektroskopische untersuchung der inhaltstoffe von haschisch

    H. Budzikiewicz;H. Budzikiewicz;R.T. Alpin;R.T. Alpin;D.A. Lightner;D.A. Lightner;Carl Djerassi;Carl Djerassi

  • Experimental and Calculated CPL Spectra and Related Spectroscopic Data of Camphor and Other Simple Chiral Bicyclic Ketones

    Giovanna Longhi;Ettore Castiglioni;Sergio Abbate

  • Hydrogen Bonding of Bilirubins and Pyrromethenones in Solution

    Francesc R. Trull;Jin‐Shi Ma;George L. Landen;David A. Lightner

  • Mass Spectrometry in Structural and Stereochemical Problems. LXIII.1 Hydrogen Rearrangements Induced by Electron Impact on N-n-Butyl- and N-n-Pentylpyrroles2

    A. M. Duffield;R. Beugelmans;H. Budzikiewicz;D. A. Lightner

  • Phototherapy and the photobiology of bilirubin.

    Antony F. McDonagh;David A. Lightner

  • CONFORMATIONAL ENANTIOMERISM IN BILIRUBIN. SELECTION BY CYCLODEXTRINS

    D. A. Lightner;J. K. Gawronski;K. Gawronska

  • The octant rule. 5. Nature of the third nodal surface. An understanding of "anti-octant" and front octant effects by a CNDO/S study of rotatory strengths of the carbonyl n .fwdarw. .pi.* transition

    Thomas D. Bouman;David A. Lightner

  • Acid−Amide Intermolecular Hydrogen Bonding

    Paul L. Wash;Emily Maverick;John Chiefari;David A. Lightner

  • OPTICAL ACTIVITY AND STEREOCHEMISTRY OF LINEAR OLIGOPYRROLES AND BILE PIGMENTS

    Stefan E. Boiadjiev;David A. Lightner

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