James K. McCusker

Jim k. McCusker was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1965. He obtained both B.S. and M.S. degrees from Bucknell University in 1987 working with Charles A. Root on oxovanadium chemistry. In 1992, McCusker received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois with David N. Hendrickson studying the magnetic properties of polynuclear Mn and Fe clusters in addition to the photo-induced spin-crossover dynamics of Fe(II) complexes. From 1992 to 1994, he was an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow with Professor Thomas J. Meyer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. McCusker began his independent career as an Assistant Professor at the University of California at Berkeley in 1994. In January 2001, he moved his research group to Michigan State University, where he is currently an Associate Professor of Chemistry. His research focuses on the ultrafast spectroscopy of transition metal complexes, electron exchange effects on electron and energy transfer dynamics, and photophysical processes related to solar energy conversion.

Biography Updated on 6 May 2007

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Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Spin Exchange Effects on the Physicochemical Properties of Tetraoxolene-Bridged Bimetallic Complexes
    Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 46, no. 8, pp. 3257–3274, 2007
  2. Ultrafast dynamics of ligand-field excited states
    Coordination Chemistry Reviews, vol. 250, no. 13-14, pp. 1783–1791, 2006
  3. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 110, no. 1, pp. 38–44, 2006
  4. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 44, no. 22, pp. 7846–7859, 2005
  5. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 127, no. 18, pp. 6857–6865, 2005
  6. Femtosecond Absorption Spectroscopy of Transition Metal Charge-Transfer Complexes
    ChemInform, vol. 35, no. 11, 2004
  7. Accounts of Chemical Research, vol. 36, no. 12, pp. 876–887, 2003
  8. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 273–282, 2003
  9. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 106, no. 36, pp. 9347–9358, 2002
  10. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 106, no. 32, pp. 7399–7406, 2002
  11. Synthesis of mono-substituted 2,2'-bipyridinesElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: experimental details and full characterization of new compounds. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/cc/b2/b203595b/
    Chemical Communications, no. 14, pp. 1496–1497, 2002
  12. Density functional theory of spin-coupled models for diiron-oxo proteins: Effects of oxo and hydroxo bridging on geometry, electronic structure, and magnetism
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 116, no. 14, p. 6253, 2002
  13. PHOTOCATALYSIS: Enhanced: Fuel from Photons
    Science, vol. 293, no. 5535, pp. 1599–1601, 2001
  14. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 40, no. 26, pp. 6802–6812, 2001
  15. Analytical Chemistry, vol. 73, no. 17, pp. 4374–4378, 2001
  16. Ultrafast Electron Localization Dynamics Following Photo-Induced Charge Transfer
    Science, vol. 289, no. 5481, pp. 935–938, 2000
  17. Blue-Fluorescent Antibodies
    Science, vol. 290, no. 5490, pp. 307–313, 2000
  18. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 122, no. 17, pp. 4092–4097, 2000
  19. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 103, no. 20, pp. 4101–4112, 1999
  20. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 103, no. 35, pp. 7032–7041, 1999
  21. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 103, no. 31, pp. 6282–6282, 1999
  22. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 103, no. 42, pp. 8440–8446, 1999
  23. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 38, no. 19, pp. 4268–4277, 1999
  24. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 120, no. 46, pp. 12051–12068, 1998
  25. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 37, no. 9, pp. 2296–2307, 1998
  26. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 37, no. 15, pp. 3658–3659, 1998
  27. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 102, no. 19, pp. 3382–3397, 1998
  28. Femtosecond Dynamics of Excited-State Evolution in [Ru(bpy)3]2+
    Science, vol. 275, no. 5296, pp. 54–57, 1997
  29. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 119, no. 35, pp. 8253–8268, 1997
  30. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 35, no. 7, pp. 2100–2112, 1996
  31. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 35, no. 22, pp. 6450–6460, 1996
  32. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 115, no. 1, pp. 298–307, 1993
  33. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 115, no. 5, pp. 1797–1804, 1993
  34. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 394–399, 1993
  35. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 31, no. 5, pp. 870–877, 1992
  36. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 31, no. 7, pp. 1123–1125, 1992
  37. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 31, no. 10, pp. 1874–1880, 1992
  38. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 114, no. 10, pp. 3815–3827, 1992
  39. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 113, no. 8, pp. 3012–3021, 1991
  40. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 113, no. 16, pp. 6114–6124, 1991
  41. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 30, no. 6, pp. 1357–1365, 1991
  42. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 30, no. 9, pp. 1985–1990, 1991
  43. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 30, no. 18, pp. 3486–3495, 1991
  44. Chlorid-induzierte Umwandlung von [Mn4O2(OAc)6(py)2(dbm)2] in [Mn4O3Cl(OAc)3(dbm)3]: Mögliche Bedeutung für die photosynthetische Wasseroxidation
    Angewandte Chemie, vol. 103, no. 3, pp. 314–316, 1991
  45. Ein sechskerniger Eisen(III)-Komplex mitS = 5-Grundzustand
    Angewandte Chemie, vol. 103, no. 5, pp. 592–594, 1991
  46. Chloride-Induced Conversion of[Mn4O2(OAc)6(py)2(dbm)2] to[Mn4O3Cl(OAc)3(dbm)3]: Potential Relevance to Photosynthetic Water Oxidation
    Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 305–306, 1991
  47. Hexanuclear Ferric Complex with a NovelS= 5 Ground State
    Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English, vol. 30, no. 5, pp. 598–600, 1991
  48. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 112, no. 19, pp. 6814–6827, 1990
  49. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 28, no. 7, pp. 1380–1384, 1989