Weston Thatcher Borden

Research.com Recognitions

• 2009 - Fellow of the American Chemical Society
• 2004 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• 1981 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
• 1976 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Best Publications

• Effects of electron repulsion in conjugated hydrocarbon diradicals

  Weston Thatcher Borden;Ernest R. Davidson

  869
  Citations

• Proton-coupled electron transfer versus hydrogen atom transfer in benzyl/toluene, methoxyl/methanol, and phenoxyl/phenol self-exchange reactions

  James M Mayer;David A Hrovat;Jennie L Thomas;Weston Thatcher Borden

  429
  Citations

• Violations of Hund's Rule in Non-Kekule Hydrocarbons: Theoretical Prediction and Experimental Verification

  Weston Thatcher Borden;Hiizu Iwamura;Jerome A. Berson

  399
  Citations

• Symmetry breaking in polyatomic molecules: real and artifactual

  Ernest R. Davidson;Weston Thatcher Borden

  398
  Citations

• Transition-State Spectroscopy of Cyclooctatetraene

  PG Wenthold;DA Hrovat;WT Borden;WC Lineberger

  305
  Citations

• The interplay of theory and experiment in the study of phenylnitrene.

  Weston Thatcher Borden;Nina P. Gritsan;Christopher M. Hadad;William L. Karney

  305
  Citations

• Carbon Tunneling from a Single Quantum State

  Peter S. Zuev;Robert S. Sheridan;Titus V. Albu;Donald G. Truhlar

  282
  Citations

• Calculations on Open-Shell Molecules: A Beginner's Guide

  Thomas Bally;Weston Thatcher Borden

  230
  Citations

• Ab Initio Study of the Ring Expansion of Phenylnitrene and Comparison with the Ring Expansion of Phenylcarbene

  William L. Karney;Weston Thatcher Borden

  212
  Citations

• Dioxygen: What Makes This Triplet Diradical Kinetically Persistent?

  Weston Thatcher Borden;Roald Hoffmann;Thijs Stuyver;Thijs Stuyver;Bo Chen

  189
  Citations

• Theoretical studies of diradicals containing four .pi. electrons

  Weston Thatcher Borden;Ernest R. Davidson

  183
  Citations

• Ab Initio Calculations Show Why m-Phenylene Is Not Always a Ferromagnetic Coupler

  Shu Fang;Ming-Shi Lee;David A. Hrovat;Weston Thatcher Borden

  180
  Citations

• The Cope Rearrangement Revisited Again. Results of Ab Initio Calculations beyond the CASSCF Level

  David A. Hrovat;Keiji Morokuma;Weston Thatcher Borden

  162
  Citations

• Ab initio calculations of the singlet-triplet energy difference in phenylnitrene

  David A. Hrovat;Edward E. Waali;Weston Thatcher Borden

  155
  Citations

• The Synergy Between Qualitative Theory, Quantitative Calculations, and Direct Experiments in Understanding, Calculating, and Measuring the Energy Differences Between the Lowest Singlet and Triplet States of Organic Diradicals

  W. Carl Lineberger;Weston Thatcher Borden

  153
  Citations

• CASSCF calculations find that a D8h geometry is the transition state for double bond shifting in cyclooctatetraene

  David A. Hrovat;Weston Thatcher Borden

  150
  Citations

• A Computational Study of Reductive Elimination Reactions to Form C−H Bonds from Pt(II) and Pt(IV) Centers. Why Does Ligand Loss Precede Reductive Elimination from Six-Coordinate but Not Four-Coordinate Platinum?

  Kevin L. Bartlett;and Karen I. Goldberg;Weston Thatcher Borden

  147
  Citations

• Transition structures for the Claisen rearrangement

  Robert L. Vance;Nelson G. Rondan;K. N. Houk;Frank. Jensen

  143
  Citations

• The potential surfaces for the lowest singlet and triplet states of cyclobutadiene

  Weston Thatcher Borden;Ernest R. Davidson;Paul Hart

  142
  Citations

• Synchronicity in Multibond Reactions

  Unknown

  139
  Citations

• Potential surfaces for the planar cyclopentadienyl radical and cation

  Weston Thatcher Borden;Ernest R. Davidson

  132
  Citations