Department of Chemistry
Willamette University
900 State Street
Salem, Oregon 97301
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Measuring the magnitude of hyperconjugation in biochemical probes using fluorescence and laser techniques; identifying the weak electronic interactions in interesting molecules using quantum chemical calculations within the natural bond orbital (NBO) approximation; determining the relative populations of rotomers by variable temperature NMR studies.
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T. Koenig, C. E. Klopfenstein, S. Southworth, J. A. Hoobler, R. A. Wielesek, T. Balle, W. Snell, and Daniel Imre “Non-Koopmans' theorem effects in the helium(I) photoelectron spectra of polyenes” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 105(8), 2256-2259 (1983).
T. Koenig, Daniel Imre, and James A. Hoobler “Helium (He I) photoelectron spectrum of benzocyclobutadiene” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 101(21), 6446-6447 (1979).
T. Koenig, J. A. Hoobler, C. E. Klopfenstein, G. Hedden, F. Sunderman and B. R. Russell “Electronic configurations of amido radicals” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 96(14), 4573-4577 (1974).
Thomas W. Koenig, M. Deinzer and J. A. Hoobler “Thermal decomposition of N-nitrosohydroxylamines. III. N-Benzoyl-N-nitroso-O-tert-butylhydroxylamine” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 93(4), 938-944 (1971).