From chemistry-request@ccl.net Thu Feb 28 12:08:44 1991
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 91 08:48:14 PST
From: krwilson@UCSD.EDU
Subject: Postdoc/Research positions
To: chemistry@ccl.net
Status: R


FROM:

	Prof. Kent R. Wilson
	Department of Chemistry 0339
	University of California, San Diego
	9500 Gilman Drive
	La Jolla, CA 92093-0339

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	FAX: (619) 534-7654


RE:	Available Postdoctoral & Research Positions


I would like to ask your help in finding the right candidates for 
three appointments in my research group, two in experiment and one in 
theory.  The area is the microscopic understanding of chemical reactions 
in solution, including enzyme and other catalyzed reactions. The level of 
the positions is Post-doctoral, or possibly Research Staff level for 
someone very special who has already had extensive  post-doctoral 
experience.

The object of our research is the microscopic understanding in 
terms of molecular dynamics of chemical reactions in solution.  I believe 
that simple theoretical and pictorial models will increasingly be found for 
solution reactions, just as they have been found for gas phase chemistry.  
Some of our specific areas of research interest include: i) the route to the 
transition state, in other words what is special about those solvent-
reagent trajectories which actually climb the barrier, ii) the mechanism 
of power flow from solvent to reagents (as well as within the solvent and 
the reagents) which enables barrier climbing and allows chemical 
reactions to take place, iii) the development of the proper phasing or 
correlations of the solvent and reagent motions needed (in addition to 
energy flow) for reaction in solution, iv) the development of theories and 
simple models for all of the above, and v) the experimental testing, 
particularly with femtosecond and picosecond spectroscopy, of the 
theories and models we are developing.  We hope to apply related concepts 
to catalysis and biomolecular processes.  Our emphasis is on the 
comparison among theoretical models, computational molecular dynamics, 
and experimental measurements.  I encourage collaboration both within 
my own group and with other theoretical and experimental research 
groups.

The starting time is flexible, and a minimum period of two years 
is expected. The pay scale can vary from $26,220 per year for a 
beginning post-doctoral to $41,600 per year for a Staff Research 
Associate position, for someone with considerable experience.

A few recent papers which indicate some of our interests in more 
detail are.

1.	B. J. Gertner, R. M. Whitnell, K. R. Wilson and J. T. Hynes 
"Activation to the Transition State: Reactant and Solvent Energy 
Flow for a Model SN2 Reaction in Water", Journal of the American 
Chemical Society, 113, 74 (1991) 

2.	Y. S. Li and K. R. Wilson: "What Can Gas Phase Reactions Tell Us
about Solution Reactions?", Journal of Chemical Physics, 93, 8821 (1990) 

3.	I. Benjamin, B. J. Gertner, N. J. Tang and K. R. Wilson: "Energy 
Flow in an Atom Exchange Chemical Reaction in Solution," Journal 
of the American Chemical Society, 112, 524 (1990)

4.	I. Benjamin and Kent R. Wilson: "Proposed Experimental Probes of 
Chemical Reaction Molecular Dynamics in Solution: ICN Photodissociation,"
Journal of Chemical Physics, 90, 4176 (1989). 



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