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  • 1991 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

W. Robert Scheidt is affiliated with the University of Notre Dame in the United States and focuses on materials science, particularly materials chemistry within this area. Their research contributions span multiple subfields including inorganic chemistry, molecular biology, and cell biology.

Their work primarily addresses topics such as crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, porphyrin and phthalocyanine chemistry, metal-catalyzed oxygenation mechanisms, porphyrin metabolism and disorders, and hemoglobin structure and function. These areas reflect a concentrated effort on molecular structure and chemical processes related to metalloproteins and coordination compounds.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Scheidt include N.J. Silvernail, Allen G. Oliver, Jianfeng Li, Dehui Yu, and Ming Li.

Publication venues where Scheidt's research has appeared include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines
  • Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry

Some recent publications authored or co-authored by Scheidt are:

  • The Simplest Iron μ-oxo Species. The Molecular Structure of {[Fe(porphine)]2O}, 2020, Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines
  • Stereochemistry of low-spin cobalt porphyrins. 9. Molecular stereochemistry of two picket fence cobalt(II) derivatives, 2023, Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry
  • CCDC 1947605: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination, 2020, The Cambridge Structural Database
  • CCDC 1947566: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination, 2020, The Cambridge Structural Database
  • CCDC 1947609: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination, 2020, The Cambridge Structural Database

Scheidt has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 1991.

Best Publications

  • Spin-state/stereochemical relationships in iron porphyrins: implications for the hemoproteins

    W. Robert Scheidt;Christopher A. Reed

  • Recent advances in the stereochemistry of metallotetrapyrroles

    W. Robert Scheidt;Young Ja Lee

  • Structural Control of the Photodynamics of Boron-Dipyrrin Complexes

    Hooi Ling Kee;Christine Kirmaier;Lianhe Yu;Patchanita Thamyongkit

  • Models of the cytochromes b. Effect of axial ligand plane orientation on the EPR and Moessbauer spectra of low-spin ferrihemes

    F. Ann. Walker;Boi Hanh Huynh;W. Robert. Scheidt;Sarah R. Osvath

  • Solid-State Structures of Metalloporphyrin NOx Compounds

    Graeme R. A. Wyllie;W. Robert Scheidt

  • The missing heme spin state and a model for cytochrome c'. The mixed S = 3/2, 5/2 intermediate spin ferric porphyrin: perchlorato(meso-tetraphenylporphinato)iron(III)

    Christopher A. Reed;Toshio Mashiko;Steven P. Bentley;Margaret E. Kastner

  • Molecular stereochemistry of two intermediate-spin complexes. Iron(II) phthalocyanine and manganese(II) phthalocyanine

    John F. Kirner;W. Dow;W. Robert. Scheidt

  • Molecular stereochemistry of phthalocyanatozinc(II)

    W. Robert Scheidt;W. Dow

  • Axial Ligand Orientation in Iron(III) Porphyrinates: Effect of Axial .pi.-Acceptors. Characterization of the Low-Spin Complex [Fe(TPP)(4-CNPy)2]ClO4

    Martin K. Safo;F. Ann Walker;Arnold M. Raitsimring;W. Patrick Walters

  • Models of the Cytochromes b. Control of Axial Ligand Orientation with a "Hindered" Porphyrin System

    Martin K. Safo;Govind P. Gupta;F. Ann Walker;W. Robert Scheidt

  • Trends in metalloporphyrin stereochemistry

    W. Robert Scheidt

  • Crystal and molecular structure of the silver(II) and zinc(II) derivatives of meso-tetraphenylporphyrin. An exploration of crystal-packing effects on bond distance

    W. Robert Scheidt;Jalal U. Mondal;C. W. Eigenbrot;Alan Adler

  • Models of the cytochromes b. Low-spin bis-ligated (porphinato)iron(III) complexes with unusual molecular structures and NMR, EPR, and Moessbauer spectra

    Martin K. Safo;Govind P. Gupta;C. Todd Watson;Ursula Simonis

  • .eta.1-Benzene coordination: the synthesis and x-ray crystal structure of a novel silver salt of the weakly coordinating carborane anion B11CH12-

    Kenneth Shelly;David C. Finster;Young Ja Lee;W. Robert Scheidt

  • Observations on silver salt metathesis reactions with very weakly coordinating anions

    David J. Liston;Young Ja Lee;W. Robert Scheidt;Christopher A. Reed

  • New weakly coordinating anions. 2. Derivatization of the carborane anion CB11H12

    Tomas Jelinek;Patricia Baldwin;W. Robert Scheidt;Christopher A. Reed

  • Nitrosylmetalloporphyrins. II. Synthesis and molecular stereochemistry of mitrosyl-alpha, beta, gamma, delta,-tetraphenylporphinatoiron (ii)

    Unknown

  • Nitrosylmetalloporphyrins. III. Synthesis and molecular stereochemistry of nitrosyl-alpha, beta, gamma, delta-tetraphenylporphinato(1-methylimidazole)iron(II).

    W. Robert Scheidt;Paul L. Piciulo

  • Stereochemistry of the toluene solvate of .alpha.,.beta.,.gamma.,.delta.-tetraphenylporphinatochromium(II)

    W. Robert Scheidt;Christopher A. Reed

  • Imidazolate complexes of iron and manganese tetraphenylporphyrins

    John T. Landrum;K. Hatano;W. Robert Scheidt;Christopher A. Reed

  • An Analysis of Porphyrin Molecular FlexibilityUse of Porphyrin Diacids

    Unknown

  • The missing heme spin state and a model for cytochrome c'. The mixed S = 3/2, 5/2 intermediate spin ferric porphyrin: perchlorato(meso-tetraphenylporphinato)iron(III)

    C. A. Reed;T. Mashiko;S. P. Bentley;M. E. Kastner

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher A. Reed
Christopher A. Reed University of California, Riverside
F. Ann Walker
F. Ann Walker University of Arizona
Jay A. Labinger
Jay A. Labinger California Institute of Technology
Qian Peng
Qian Peng Chinese Academy of Sciences
Lon J. Wilson
Lon J. Wilson Rice University
Marek Z. Zgierski
Marek Z. Zgierski National Research Council Canada
John A. Shelnutt
John A. Shelnutt University of Georgia
Ray J. Butcher
Ray J. Butcher Howard University
Jonathan S. Lindsey
Jonathan S. Lindsey North Carolina State University
Nicolai Lehnert
Nicolai Lehnert University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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