Prof. Luke A. Burke

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Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Arts and Sciences-Camden
Chemistry
ProfessorAppointed: 1996
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Arts and Sciences-Camden
Chemistry
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Mailing Address

Chemistry Department
Rutgers University
315 Penn Street
Camden, New Jersey 08102
United States

Contact Information

Phone: (856) 225-6158
burke@camden.rutgers.edu
http://camchem.rutgers.edu/~burke

Qualifications

D.Sc., Universite Catholique de Louvain, Quantum Chemistry, 1978.
M.S., New York University, Organic Chemistry, 1973.
B.S., Fordham University, Chemistry, 1970.

Expertise and Research Interests

My research lies in Theoretical Chemistry, specifically in the computation of the electronic properties of molecules and complexes of chemical and biological interest. I am presently exploring the mechanisms in which groups of atoms rearrange in a reaction called the [1,4] shift, which is important in the synthesis of organic compounds containing nitrogen, oxygen, or sulfur atoms. My longer range plans include the question of complexity in chemistry and chemical synthesis.

Other Expertise

Reviewer, The Journal of Organic Chemistry;
Reviewer, Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry 12/02 - present;
Reviewer, International Journal of Quantum Chemistry. 01/88 - present;
Reviewer, Journal of the American Chemical Society. 01/89 - present;
Reviewer, Chemical Physics Letters 10/96 - present;
Reviewer, Tetrahedron Letters;
Reviewer, Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling;
Reviewer, Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM.

Industrial Relevance

Molecular design of drugs and other materials of commercial interest; Systems administration, computer programming, and mathematical analysis needed for the application of quantum theoretical methods to problems of chemical and pharmacological interest

Keywords

COS Keywords:

Computer Programming, Computer Systems Administration, Lasers and Masers, Mathematics, Polymer Chemistry, Quantum Chemistry.

Additional Terms:

Conducting Polymers, Conformations of Polypeptides and Other Polymers, Molecular Modeling, Organic Reaction Mechanisms.

Languages

(Reading, Writing, Speaking)

English: (Fluent, Fluent, Fluent)
French: (Fluent, Functional, Fluent)
German: (Basic, None, None)
Irish Gaelic: (Basic, None, None)
Vlaams: (Basic, None, None)

Memberships

American Chemical Society
American Institute of Chemists
World Association of Theoretically Oriented Chemists

Honors and Awards

1978, Jan Stas Prize, The Royal Belgian Academy of Sciences, Award for Doctoral Thesis Summa Cum Laude

Previous Positions

9/79-10/78, Visiting Fellow, Universite Paul Sabatier of Toulouse, Physics
2004-2005, Invited Professor, National University of Ireland, Galway
1978-1978, Post-doctoral fellow, Universite de Strasbourg, France, Chemistry
1/98-5/98, Invited Professor, National University of Ireland at Galway,
1/86-5/87, Invited Scientist, Oxford University, Theoretical Chemistry Department
03/78-09/78, Belgian Government Ministerial Postdoctoral Fellowship, Facultes Universitaires de Namur, Belgium,
NATO-NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship, Facultes Universitaires de Namur, Belguim,
NASA-AEEE Summer Faculty Fellow, Hampton VA 07/83 - 08/83
NASA-AEEE Summer Faculty Fellow, Hampton VA 07/84 - 08/84
NASA-AEEE Summer Faculty Fellow, Cleveland OH 07/88 - 08/88
NASA-AEEE Summer Faculty Fellow, Cleveland OH 07/89 - 08/89

Funding Received

  • Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation - Lucent Technologies: 'Partners in Science', $750,000, Jul 1, 2000 to Jun 30, 2003.
  • Department of the Army: Theoretical Studies on Chemical Systems, $85,325, Jul 1995 to Dec 1999.
  • National Science Foundation (NSF): Academic Research Infrastructure-Equipment Award, 2D-FTIR, $320,000, 1996 to 1999.
  • National Science Foundation (NSF): Academic Research Infrastructure-Equipment Award, Computer System for Chemistry Department, $100,000, 1995 to 1997.
  • NSF-New Jersey Higher Education Trust Fund: Renovations to Chemistry Building, $708,204, 1994 to 1997.

Publications

  • Burke LA, Fazen PJ (2009) Correlation Analysis of the Interconversion and Nitrogen Loss Reactions of Aryl Pentazenes and Pentazoles Derived from Aryl Diazonium and Azide Ions, International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, 109 (15), 3613-3617
  • Burke LA, Butler RN (Aug 2009) Computational investigation of rearrangements in huisgen cycloadducts of azolium N-dicyanomethanide 1,3-dipoles with alkynes: a mechanistic panoply., The Journal of organic chemistry, 74 (15), 5199-210 Abstract
  • Butler RN, Hanniffy JM, Stephens JC, Burke LA (Feb 2008) A Ceric Ammonium Nitrate N-Dearylation of N-p-Anisylazoles Applied to Pyrazole, Triazole, Tetrazole, and Pentazole Rings: Release of Parent Azoles. Generation of Unstable Pentazole, HN(5)/N(5)(-), in Solution., The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 73 (4), 1354-64 Abstract
  • Richard N. Butler, Anthony G. Coyne, Patrick McArdle, Lisa M. Sibley and Luke A. Burke (2007) Uncharacteristic thione behavior in a Huisgen cycloaddition reaction: a kinetic and theoretical study, Tetrahedron Letters, 48 (38), 6684-6687
  • Richard N. Butler, Helena A. Gavin, Eamon M. Moloney, Patick McArdle, Desmond Cunningham and Luke A. Burke (2006) Spirally twisted imidazolium iminyl ylide structures from 1,2-rearrangements in reactions of imidazolium dicyanomethanide 1,3-dipoles with maleic anhydride: new perspectives on the Boekelheide-Fedoruk ring expansions, Tetrahedron Letters, 47 (34), 6107-6111
  • Paul J. Fazen and Luke A. Burke (2006) Theoretical studies of borazynes and azaborines, Inorganic Chemistry, 45 (6), 2006
  • Butler RN, Cunningham WJ, Coyne AG, Burke LA (Sep 2004) The influence of water on the rates of 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reactions: trigger points for exponential rate increases in water-organic solvent mixtures. Water-super versus water-normal dipolarophiles., Journal of the American Chemical Society, 126 (38), 11923-9 Abstract
  • Martin JV, Padron JM, Newman MA, Chapell R, Leidenheimer NJ, Burke LA (Apr 2004) Inhibition of the activity of the native gamma-aminobutyric acid A receptor by metabolites of thyroid hormones: correlations with molecular modeling studies., Brain research, 1004 (1-2), 98-107 Abstract
  • Martin JV, Padron JM, Newman MA, Chapell R, Leidenheimer NJ, Burke LA (Apr 2004) Inhibition of the activity of the native gamma-aminobutyric acid A receptor by metabolites of thyroid hormones: correlations with molecular modeling studies., Brain Research, 1004 (1-2), 98-107 Abstract
  • Luke A. Burke and Paul J. Fazen (2004) Consideration of spin states in determining the structure and decomposition of the transition metal pentazoles FeClN5, Fe(N5)2, Fe(H2O)4ClN5, and Fe(NH3)4ClN5, Chemical Communications, 9 (2004), 1082
  • Butler RN, Stephens JC, Burke LA (Apr 2003) First generation of pentazole (HN5, pentazolic acid), the final azole, and a zinc pentazolate salt in solution: A new N-dearylation of 1-(p-methoxyphenyl) pyrazoles, a 2-(p-methoxyphenyl) tetrazole and application of the methodology to 1-(p-methoxyphenyl), Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) (8), 1016-7 Abstract
  • Development of the Valence Effective Hamiltonian method and computer program for the calculation of the electronic structure of polymers
  • Elucidation of molecular pathways in heteroaromatic pericyclic reactions, discovered the pseudoelectrocyclic reaction mechanism

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