R. Linn Belford

Professor of Chemistry and Medical Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
Professor Belford was awarded the B.S. in chemistry by the University of Illinois in 1953 and the Ph.D. in chemistry by the University of California (Berkeley) in 1955. Since then, he has been on the faculty at Illinois, where he has exploited special electronic and EPR spectroscopic techniques to characterize transition metal ions, radicals, and catalytic surfaces, and shock-tube methods to study high-temperature fast reactions. He has received NSF, Alfred P. Sloan, and NIH fellowships, and is currently Director of the Illinois EPR Research Center. His research interests are in physical, biophysical, and inorganic chemistry, including anisotropies in solid-state structure and spectra; EPR spectra of coordination compounds including contrast agents for MRI; nuclear quadrupole and spin-spin interactions; EPR theory; ENDOR and ESE spectroscopy of disordered materials; fast motion studied by low-to-high frequency EPR; catalysis.

Some Representative Publications

Smirnov, A.I., Clarkson, R.B., and Belford, R.L., "EPR Linewidth (T2) Method to Measure Oxygen Permeability of Phospholipid Bilayers Based on a Fast Convolution Algorithm", J. Magn. Reson., B111:149-57, 1996.

Canfield, J.M., Belford, R.L., and Debrunner, P.G., "Calculations of Earth-Strength Steady and Oscillating Magnetic Field Effects in Coenzyme B12 Radical Pair Systems", Molecular Physics, 89:889-930, 1996.

Chen, J.W.,Clarkson, R.B., and Belford, R.L.,"Rotational Dynamics of MRI Paramagnetic Contrast Agents in Viscous Medium", J. Phys. Chem., 100:8093-8100, 1996.

Clarkson, R.B., Mattson, K., Shi, W., Wang, W., and Belford, R. L., "Structure and Reactivity of Radicals on Surfaces", Chapter II in Radicals on Surfaces, A. Lund and C. Rhodes, eds., Kluwer Academic Publishers, Amsterdam, 1995.

Smirnova,T.I., Smirnov, A.I., Clarkson, R.B., and Belford, R.L., "W-Band (95 GHz) EPR Spectroscopy of Nitroxide Radicals with Complex Proton Hyperfine Structure: Fast Motion,"J. Phys. Chem., 99:9008-9016, 1995.

Wang, W., Belford, R.L., Clarkson, R.B., Davis, P.H., Forrer, J., Nilges, M.J., Timken, M.D., Walczak, T., Thurnauer, M.C., Norris, J.R., Morris, A.L., and Zhang, Y., "Very High Frequency EPR - 94 GHz Instrument and Applications to Primary Reaction Centers from Photosynthetic Red Bacteria and to Other Disordered Systems,"Appl. Magn. Reson., 6:195-215, 1994.

Smirnova, T.I., Smirnov, A.I., Clarkson, R.B., and Belford, R.L., "Magnetic Susceptibility and Spin Exchange in Fusinite and Carbohydrate Chars", J. Phys. Chem., 98:2464-2468, 1994.

Jiang, F., Zuberi, T.M., Cornelius, J.B., Clarkson, R.B., Gennis, R.B., Belford, R.L., "Nitrogen and Proton ENDOR of Cytochrome d, Hemin, and Metmyoglobin in Frozen Solutions", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 115:10293-10299, 1993.

Telephone (217) 333-2553

Internet rbelford@uiuc.edu

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