About Malcolm Forbes

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BIOGRAPHICAL FACTS:

Joined the faculty in Summer 2015
Ph.D. The University of Chicago (1988)
M.S. The University of Chicago (1986)
B.S. University of Illinois at Chicago (1983)

MALCOLM D. E. FORBES, Ph.D.

Center for Photochemical Sciences
Professor of Chemistry
132A Overman Hall
419-372-3948
forbesm@bgsu.edu

Research Interests:

Physical Organic Chemistry, Photochemistry, ESR

Selected Publications:

(1)       Rodgers, Z. L.; Hughes, R. M.; Doherty, L. M.; Shell, J. R.; Molesky, B. P.; Brugh, A. M.; Forbes, M. D. E.; Moran, A. M.; Lawrence, D. S. B-12-Mediated, Long Wavelength Photopolymerization of Hydrogels. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 3372–3378.

(2)       Sim, S.; Forbes, M. D. E. Radical-Triplet Pair Interactions as Probes of Long-Range Polymer Motion in Solution. J. Phys. Chem. B 2014, 118, 9997–10006.

(3)       Yonemura, H.; Forbes, M. D. E. Electron Spin Exchange in Linked Phenothiazine-Viologen Charge Transfer Complexes Incorporated in “Through-Ring” (Rotaxane) Alpha-Cyclodextrins. Photochem. Photobiol. 2015, 91, 672–677.

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