Education
In 1966, and his Doctor of Philosophy in 1968 all from Harvard University.
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Weston Borden
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Career
Doctor Weston Borden received his Bachelor of Arts in 1964, his Master of Arts Doctor Borden first became a professor of Chemistry at the University of Washington in 1977. He joined the University of North Texas as the first Welch Chair in Chemistry, a prestigious award granted through the Robert A. Welch Foundation, at the University in 2004. Doctor Borden"s research focuses on Computational Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, and Organometallic Chemistry.
The Borden group uses electronic structure calculations to understand and predict the reactions of organic and organometallic compounds, including the contributions of quantum mechanical tunneling to the reaction rates.
Doctor Borden is Associate-Editor for the Journal of the American Chemical Society as well as on the editorial advisory board for Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation and Journal of Organic Chemistry. Recent Publications Include:
“Diastereomeric North-Phenyltriazatrimethylenemethane Triplet Diradicals and a PerimidineDerived Non-Kekulé Molecule by Photolysis of 5-Imino-4,5-dihydro-1H-tetrazoles.” H. Quast, West. Nüdling, G. Klemm, A. Kirschfeld, P. Neuhaus, West. Sander, Doctorate. A. Hrovat, and West. T. Borden, J. Organisation
Chemistry 73, 4956 (2008).
"Internal Dynamics and Optical Rotations Predicted for Ohand O-symmetric Cubanes." Doctorate. A. Hrovat, C. Isborn, B. Kahr, and West. T. Borden, Organisation
Lett., 5, 4763 (2008). "Calculations of the Relative Energies of the Low-Lying Electronic States of 2 – Methylenedihydro-phenalene-1,3-diyl: Effects of a 1,8-Naphtho Bridging Group on Trimethylenemethane and of a Vinylidene Bridging Group on 1,8-Naphthoquinodimethane." H. Dong, Doctorate. A. Hrovat, H. Quast, and West. T. Borden, J. Physical
Chemistry A, 113, 895 (2009). "Slow Hydrogen Transfer Reactions of Oxo– and Hydroxo–Vanadium Compounds: The Importance of Intrinsic Barriers." C. R. Waidmann, X. Zhou, East. A. Tsai, West. Kaminsky, Doctorate. A. Hrovat, West. T. Borden and J. M. Mayer, J. American
Chemistry Society, 131, 4729 (2009).
Membership
He is also a member of the Center for Advanced Scientific Computing and Modeling(CASCaM).
