Edwin Anthony C. Lucken

     Professor
     Physical Chemistry Department
     Sciences II
     30, quai Ernest-Ansermet                   Tel.     0041 22 379 6546
     1211 GE 4                                  Fax      0041 22 379 6103
     CH                                         E-mail   Anthony.Lucken@unige.ch

Research Interests

Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance Spectroscopy

• Electronic structure of donor-acceptor complexes.
• Molecular mobility in the solid state, in particular the mobility of guest molecules in inclusion complexes.

Theoretical Chemistry

• Calculations of molecular electronic structures using a variety of standard methods, at present mainly of donor-acceptor complexes.
• Molecular dynamics simulations of the mobility of guest molecules in inclusion complexes.

Selected Publications

• The Application of Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance to the Study of Clathrates. 35Cl NQR and Crystallography of clathrated CCl4, Li Pang, E.A.C.Lucken and G.Bernardinelli, J.American Chem.Society 1990, 112, 8754-8764
• Structural Investigation and Modeling of Cavities in Clathrates, Li Pang, E.A.C.Lucken, Jacques Weber and Gérald Bernardinelli, Journal of Computer Aided Molecular Design.1991, 5, 285-291
• Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance and Crystallographic Studies of Three-co-ordinated Copper(I) Cations with Alkylpyridine Ligands, A. Habiyakare, E.A.C.Lucken and G. Bernardinelli, J.Chem.Soc. Dalton Transactions.1992, 2591-2599
• A Theoretical Study of the Vibrational Dependence of the Nuclear Quadrupole Coupling Constants of some Diatomic Molecules, E.A.C.Lucken, Zeitschrift für Naturforschung, Special Issue of the XII International Symposium on NQR, Zurich, July 19-23,1993, 49a, 133-136
• The Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance of the 63,65Cu nuclei in Copper(I) complexes, E.A.C.Lucken, Zeitschrift für Naturforschung, Special Issue of the XII International Symposium on NQR, Zurich, July 19-23,1994, 49a, 155-166
• Strucures and librational motions of p-dichlorobenzene in Werner clathrates. L. Pang, M. A. Whitehead, G. Bernardinelli and E. A. C. Lucken, J. Chemical Crystallography, 24, 203, 1994
• 63Cu NQR Spectra of Dicoordinated Cu(I) Cations with Imidazole and Pyrazole Ligands, F. Khajenhouri, S. Motallebi and E. A. C. Lucken, J. Molecular Structure, 345, 277, 1995