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Overview

Steven E. Wheeler is affiliated with the University of Georgia in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry, with a strong focus on Materials Chemistry and Organic Chemistry. Additional interests extend into Molecular Biology, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, and Spectroscopy.

Their work covers a range of topics related to crystallization, solubility studies, and crystallography, emphasizing X-ray diffraction techniques and molecular interactions within crystalline materials. Other notable research areas include asymmetric synthesis and catalysis, axial and atropisomeric chirality synthesis, machine learning applications in materials science, as well as catalysis and oxidation reactions.

Frequent publication venues for their research include The Cambridge Structural Database, where they have contributed extensively, as well as the Journal of the American Chemical Society and the Journal of Computational Chemistry. Other venues of publication include Organic Chemistry Frontiers and the American Journal of Occupational Therapy.

Among their recent papers are:

  • "<scp>QChASM</scp>: Quantum chemistry automation and structure manipulation," 2020, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Computational Molecular Science
  • "<scp>SEQCROW</scp>: A<scp>ChimeraX</scp> bundle to facilitate quantum chemical applications to complex molecular systems," 2021, Journal of Computational Chemistry
  • "Electrostatic Interactions in Asymmetric Organocatalysis," 2023, Accounts of Chemical Research
  • "Unusual Enantiodivergence in Chiral Brønsted Acid-Catalyzed Asymmetric Allylation with β-Alkenyl Allylic Boronates," 2022, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Optimization of Catalyst Structure for Asymmetric Propargylation of Aldehydes with Allenyltrichlorosilane," 2020, Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis

Steven E. Wheeler has collaborated extensively with several researchers, including Anthony J. Schaefer, Laura R. Andreola, K. N. Houk, Meng Duan, and Peiyuan Yu.

Best Publications

  • A hierarchy of homodesmotic reactions for thermochemistry.

    Steven E. Wheeler;Kendall N. Houk;Paul v. R. Schleyer;Wesley D. Allen

  • Understanding substituent effects in noncovalent interactions involving aromatic rings.

    Steven E. Wheeler

  • Substituent effects in the benzene dimer are due to direct interactions of the substituents with the unsubstituted benzene.

    Steven E. Wheeler;K. N. Houk

  • Local Nature of Substituent Effects in Stacking Interactions

    Steven E. Wheeler

  • Bifurcations on Potential Energy Surfaces of Organic Reactions

    Daniel H. Ess;Steven E. Wheeler;Robert G. Iafe;Lai Xu

  • Integration Grid Errors for Meta-GGA-Predicted Reaction Energies: Origin of Grid Errors for the M06 Suite of Functionals

    Steven E. Wheeler;K. N. Houk

  • Noncovalent Interactions in Organocatalysis and the Prospect of Computational Catalyst Design

    Steven E. Wheeler;Trevor J. Seguin;Yanfei Guan;Analise C. Doney

  • Toward a More Complete Understanding of Noncovalent Interactions Involving Aromatic Rings

    Steven E. Wheeler;Jacob W. G. Bloom

  • Chiral phosphoric acid catalysis: from numbers to insights

    Rajat Maji;Sharath Chandra Mallojjala;Sharath Chandra Mallojjala;Steven E Wheeler;Steven E Wheeler

  • Through-Space Effects of Substituents Dominate Molecular Electrostatic Potentials of Substituted Arenes.

    Steven E. Wheeler;K. N. Houk

  • Substituent Effects in Cation/π Interactions and Electrostatic Potentials above the Centers of Substituted Benzenes Are Due Primarily to Through-Space Effects of the Substituents

    Steven E. Wheeler;K. N. Houk

  • Probing substituent effects in aryl-aryl interactions using stereoselective Diels-Alder cycloadditions.

    Steven E. Wheeler;Anne J. McNeil;Peter Müller;Timothy M. Swager

  • Taking the aromaticity out of aromatic interactions.

    Jacob W. G. Bloom;Steven E. Wheeler

  • Substituent Effects on Non‐Covalent Interactions with Aromatic Rings: Insights from Computational Chemistry

    Rajesh K. Raju;Jacob W. G. Bloom;Yi An;Steven E. Wheeler

  • Are Anion/π Interactions Actually a Case of Simple Charge−Dipole Interactions?†

    Steven E. Wheeler;K. N. Houk

  • AARON: An Automated Reaction Optimizer for New Catalysts.

    Yanfei Guan;Victoria M. Ingman;Benjamin J. Rooks;Steven E. Wheeler;Steven E. Wheeler

  • Accurate Reaction Enthalpies and Sources of Error in DFT Thermochemistry for Aldol, Mannich, and α-Aminoxylation Reactions

    Steven E. Wheeler;Antonio Moran;Susan N. Pieniazek;K. N. Houk

  • Homodesmotic reactions for thermochemistry

    Steven E. Wheeler

  • Ionization Thresholds of Small Carbon Clusters: Tunable VUV Experiments and Theory

    Leonid Belau;Steven E. Wheeler;Brian W. Ticknor;Musahid Ahmed

  • Physical Nature of Substituent Effects in XH/π Interactions.

    Jacob W. G. Bloom;Rajesh K. Raju;Steven E. Wheeler

  • Thinking Out of the Black Box: Accurate Barrier Heights of 1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions of Ozone with Acetylene and Ethylene

    Steven E. Wheeler;Daniel H. Ess;K. N. Houk

Frequent Co-Authors

Henry F. Schaefer
Henry F. Schaefer University of Georgia
Kendall N. Houk
Kendall N. Houk University of California, Los Angeles
Wesley D. Allen
Wesley D. Allen University of Georgia
Marlan O. Scully
Marlan O. Scully Texas A&M University
Daniel H. Ess
Daniel H. Ess Brigham Young University
Michael A. Duncan
Michael A. Duncan University of Georgia
Lei Fang
Lei Fang Texas A&M University
Alexander Deiters
Alexander Deiters University of Pittsburgh
Stephen R. Leone
Stephen R. Leone University of California, Berkeley

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