Dept. of Biochemistry & Organic Chemistry
Göran Bergson
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Graduate Research Professor Emeritus Department of Chemistry and Department of Quantum Chemistry Faculty of Science Uppsala University Sweden |
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PhD Uppsala university 1962. Full professor of Organic Chemistry at Umeå university 1965 -1969, Uppsala university 1969 - 1985. Graduate research professor Uppsala university 1985 - 1999. Emeritus 1999 - present. Distinguished visiting professor at the Quantum Theory Project, Chemistry and Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA, several occasions 1989 - 1996. Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 1972 - present, and its Nobel Committee for Chemistry 1972 - 1984, the Scientific Board the World Association of Theoretical Organic Chemists (WATOC) 1988 -1996. Vice President of the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences at Uppsala 1996 - 1997. Research activities 1954 - present : The efforts are primarily characterized by the simultaneous use - from a remarkably early date - of experimental and theoretical (quantum chemical) and computational methods for solving or elucidating scientific problems. Keywords: Time and Space in Chemistry - kinetics, mechanisms, energetics, and dynamics. Research with biomedical relevance has been frequent, e.g. the synthesis of organic molecules specifically labeled with short-lived positron emitting radionuclides (especially 11C, with t½ = 20 min. cf. professor Bengt Långström, Department of organic chemistry and Uppsala university PET-Center), and biologically active sulfur- and selenium compounds. Present activities: Dynamics beyond Born-Oppenheimer, and elucidation of the molecular basis of enantioselectivity using kinetic isotope effects (theoretical and computational methods). New graduate students or post doc. fellows are no longer accepted. |
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Publications and Presentations at Conferences and Symposia, 1989 - 2004. P : Articles published in journals or books. S : Presentations at conferences and symposia. L : Invited lecture / not published.
2004 -P1. C.M. Jansson, P.-E. Larsson, N. Salhi-Benachenhou, G. Bergson and S. Lunell, Theoretical Calculations of Kinetic Isotope Effects for a Series of Substituted Aziridines. In: Fundamental World of Quantum Chemistry - A Tribute to the Memory Per-Olov Löwdin. Ed. E.S. Kryachko, Kluver Academic Publishers, Dordrecht 2004.
2001-P1. G. Bergson och O. Matsson, Daniel Strömholm, The Svedberg och isotoperna. Acta Academiae Regiae Scientiarum Upsaliensis , 21, 53-60, Uppsala 2001.
1999-P1. G. Bergson, “En gåtfull spegelbild “ (“A dim reflection in a mirror”). Annales Academiae Regiae Scientiarum Upsaliensis , 32, 55-59, Uppsala 1999.
1998-P1. A. Hussénius, O. Matsson and G. Bergson, Experimental evidence of partially rate limiting ion-pair interconversion in a base catalyzed 1,3-proton transfer reaction. Chem.Commun ., 1998, 2693-2694.
1997-P1. G. Bergson, J.-L. Calais, J. Morales, and Y. Öhrn, Vibrational Motion in Isotopomers of the HeH+ Molecular Ion: An Application of the Electron Nuclear Dynamics Method. Int. J. Quantum Chem . 63 , 415-424 (1997).
1996-S3. G. Bergson, A Trail of Research in Swedish-American Pure and Applied Chemistry. Invited lecture at the Swedish-American Symposium on the Foundations of Quantum Theory in Chemistry, Molecular Physics, and Biology, A Symposium in Honor of Per-Olov Löwdin, West Wind Inn, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA, October 26-29, 1996.
1996-S2. G. Bergson, Model Calculations of Isotope Effects without using a Potential Energy Surface. Abstract of contributed paper, Department of Organic Chemistry Conference-2 (DOOC-2), Uppsala, April 25-26, 1996.
1996-S1. G. Bergson, Jean-Louis Calais 1932-1995. Int. J. Quantum Chem., Quantum Chem. Symp. 30 , 1215 (1996).
1995-P1. M. Aune, G. Bergson, and O. Matsson, 1,3-Hydron Transfer in some 5- or 7-Substituted 1-Methylindenes. Enantioselectivities and Enantiomer-Dependent Kinetic Isotope Effects. J. Phys. Org. Chem. 8 , 400-406 (1995).
1995-S2. G. Bergson, J.-L. Calais, J. Morales, and Y. Öhrn, Vibrational Motion in Isotopomers of the HeH + Molecular Ion. An Application of the Electron Nuclear Dynamics Method. Poster contribution, Svenska Fysikersamfundet, Sektionen för Atom- och Molekylfysik, Fysikdagarna i Uppsala, November 9-11, 1995.
1995-S1. G. Bergson, Time in Chemistry. Abstract of contributed paper, Department of Organic Chemistry Conference-1 (DOOC-1), Uppsala, April 27-28, 1995.
1994-P1. J. R. Alvarez-Idaboy, S. Lunell, O. Matsson, and G. Bergson, Model Calculations of Base-Catalyzed 1,3-Proton Transfer in Indene-like Systems. Acta Chemica Scandinavica, 48 , 423-427 (1994).
1994-S2. M. Aune, G. Bergson, A. Hussénius, and O. Matsson, How can heavy and light distinguish between left and right? - Chiral Discrimination and Kinetic Isotope Effects . Abstract of contributed paper, the 5th International Symposium on Chiral Discrimination, Stockholm, September 24-28, 1994.
1994-S1. G. Bergson, Towards a coherent theoretical model for molecular vibrations,internal rotations and the mechanisms of elementary reactions. Abstract of contributed paper, 15:e Organikerdagarna, Göteborg, June 14-17, 1994.
1994-L1. G. Bergson, Vart är naturvetenskapen på väg ? Invited lecture. Rättviks-veckan 1994: "Har förnuftet en framtid utan tron?" - Seminarium om upplysningstiden och vår tid, Stiftsgården, Rättvik, June 19-23, 1994.
1993-P1. Göran Bergson, Två dalgångar, i essäsamlingen De lärdas bibliotek, sid . 37-45, ISBN 91-7486-065-8, Atlantis, Stockholm 1993.
1993-S1. G. Bergson, N. Salhi, and Y. Öhrn, Time Dependence of Conformational Changes: A Two-State Model. Abstract of contributed paper, the 33rd Sanibel Symposium on Atomic, Molecular, and Condensed Matter Theory, St. Augustine, Florida, USA, March 13-20, 1993.
1992-P1. L. A. Eriksson, Y. Öhrn, and G. Bergson, Semiempirical MO study of charge transfer in (4-aminophenyl)borane and related compounds: molecular "paddle-wheels". Journal of Molecular Structure (Theochem), 257 , 325-351 (1992).
1992-S1. A. Hussénius, O. Matsson, and G. Bergson, Relative Rates of Ion-Pair Collapse in a Piperidine Catalysed Indene Rearrangement. Abstract of contributed paper, the 11th IUPAC Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry, Ithaca, NY, USA, August 2-7, 1992.
1992-L1. G. Bergson, How can Heavy and Light distinguish between Left and Right? A Problem of Mechanism in a 1,3-Hydron Transfer Reaction, and the Relation between Mechanistic and Observable Rate Constants as obtained by the Löwdin Partitioning Technique. Invited lecture at the Department of Chemistry, University of California at Los Angeles, USA, April 3, 1992.
1991-S1. G. Bergson, The Relation Between Mechanistic- and Observable Rate Constants in First-Order Systems. A General Solution to the Problems Involved. Abstract of contributed paper, the 3rd European Symposium on Organic Reactivity, ESOR III, Göteborg, July 7-12, 1991.
1990-S1. G. Bergson, Hidden Rate Constants in Reaction Systems with undetectable Short-Lived Intermediates. Abstract of invited paper, the 2nd World Conference of the World Association of Theoretical Organic Chemists (WATOC II),Toronto, Ontario, Canada, July 8-14, 1990.
1989-P1. A. Hussénius, O. Matsson, and G. Bergson, Primary 2H-Kinetic Isotope Effects in the Base-Catalyzed 1,3-Prototropic Rearrangement of 1-Methylindene and 1,3-Dimethylindene. J. Chem. Soc. Perkin Trans. II , 851 - 857 (1989).
1989-S1. A. Hussénius, O. Matsson, and G. Bergson, Is Ion Pair Equlibration Fast Compared to Ion-Pair Collapse in Base-Catalyzed Indene Rearrangements? The 2nd European Symposium on Organic Reactivity, Padova, Italy, August 27 - September 1, 1989. |