Professor and Ohio Eminent Scholar

Office: 311 Physical Sciences Laboratory Building
Phone: (419) 372-7607
Email: rodgers@bgsu.edu
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Biographical Facts
Joined the faculty in 1988
Ph.D., Chemistry, University of Manchester, UK (1966)
M.S., Chemistry, University of Manchester, UK (1964)
B.S., Chemistry, Royal Institute of Chemistry, UK, (1963)

Research Interests
Studies in photodynamics.

1. Excited state dynamics of tetrapyrrole macrocycles.
2. Photodynamic damage in biology.
3. Energy transfer involving oxygen.
4. Electron transfer in proteins and peptides.
5. The design, assembly and use of high-technology instrumentation for transient spectroscopy.

Selected Publications
Cheng, G.; Peng, X.; Hao, G.; Kenndey, V. O.; Ivanov, I. N.; Knappenberger, K.; Hill, T. J.; Rodgers, M. A. J. Synthesis, photochemistry and electrochemistry of a series of phthalocyanines with graded steric hindrance. J. Phys. Chem. A, in press.

Chiorboli, C.; Rodgers, M. A. J.; Scandola, F. Ultrafast processes in bimetallic dyads with extended aromatic bridges. Energy and electron transfer pathways in tetrapyridophenazine-bridged complexes J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003,125 (2), 483-491.

Rodgers, M. A. J. Chromic phenomena: technological applications of color chemistry by Peter Bamfield. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124 (46), 13960.

Merzlikine, A. G.; Voskresensky, S. V.; Danilov, E. O.; Rodgers, M. A. J.; Neckers, D. C. Observations of different triplet conformations in time-resolved infrared spectra of alkyl phenylglyoxylates. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124 (49), 145.

Gusev, A.; Danilov, E. O.; Rodgers, M. A. J. Association complexes between cationic metallophthalocyanines and anionic metalloporphyrins II: ultrafast studies of excited state dynamics. J. Phys. Chem. A 2002,106, 1993-2001.

Gusev, A.; Rodgers, M. A. J. Association complexes between cationic metallophthalocyanines and anionic metalloporphyrins I: spectrometric studies of electronic interactions. J. Phys. Chem. A 2002,106, 1985-1992.