Prof. Steven E. Wheeler (CV) (Google Scholar)
Steven grew up in Richmond, VA, as the youngest of three brothers. He graduated from New College of Florida in 2002 with a B.A. in Chemistry and Physics and completed his Ph.D. in the Schaefer group at the University of Georgia in 2006. He was an NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow in Ken Houk's group at UCLA before joining the faculty at Texas A&M in August, 2010. His research group studies the role of non-covalent interactions in organocatalysis, organic electronic materials, and biological systems using modern tools of computational chemistry.

Selected Publications

  1. R. K. Raju, J. W. G. Bloom, and S. E. Wheeler, "Broad Transferability of Substituent Effects in π-Stacking Interactions Provides New Insights into Their Origin", J. Chem. Theory Comput. 9, 3479 (2013).
  2. S. E. Wheeler, "Understanding Substituent Effects in Non-Covalent Interactions Involving Aromatic Rings", Acc. Chem. Res. 46, 1029 (2013).
  3. T. Lu, M. A. Porterfield, and S. E. Wheeler, "Explaining the Disparate Stereoselectivities of N-Oxide Catalyzed Allylations and Propargylations of Aromatic Aldehydes", Org. Lett. 14, 5310 (2012).
  4. T. Lu, R. Zhu, Y. An, and S. E. Wheeler, "Origin of Enantioselectivity in the Propargylation of Aromatic Aldehydes Catalyzed by Helical N-Oxides", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 134, 3095 (2012).
  5. J. W. G. Bloom and S. E. Wheeler, "Taking the Aromaticity out of Aromatic Interactions", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 50, 7847 (2011).
  6. S. E. Wheeler, "Local Nature of Substituent Effects in Stacking Interactions", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 133, 10262 (2011).

Invited Talks

  1. Molecular Quantum Mechanics Conference 2010, University of California, Berkeley, CA (May 28, 2010).
  2. Summer School on Quantum Science and Engineering, Casper, WY (July 28, 2010).
  3. Southwest Theoretical Chemistry Conference (SWTCC), Center for Advanced Scientific Computing and Modeling and the University of North Texas, Denton, TX (Oct. 24, 2010).
  4. Mathematics Analysis and Control in Chemical Physics and Related Systems, Department of Mathematics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV (Dec. 17, 2010).
  5. QAFCO-TAMUQ Chemistry Conference, Texas A&M University, Qatar, Doha, Qatar (Jan. 20, 2011).
  6. 2011 Mesilla Chemistry Workshop: Aromatic Interactions in Chemistry and Biology, Mesilla, NM (Feb. 8, 2011)..
  7. Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Zurich Switzerland (March 29, 2011)..
  8. Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland (March 30, 2011)..
  9. Trinity University, San Antonio, TX (Oct. 6, 2011).
  10. Southwest Theoretical Chemistry Conference (SWTCC), Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX (Oct. 23, 2011).
  11. University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL (Nov. 22, 2011).
  12. New College of Florida, Sarasota, FL (Nov. 28, 2011).
  13. 24th Austin Symposium on Molecular Structure and Dynamics, Dallas, TX (Mar. 4, 2012).
  14. University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras (Apr. 20, 2012).
  15. University of California, Los Angeles (June 19, 2012).
  16. ICQC Satellite Symposium: QM and MD of Organic and Biological Reactivity, Los Angeles, CA (Jun. 23, 2012).
  17. Q-Chem Workshop, Texas A&M University (Oct. 26, 2012).
  18. Oklahoma State University (Nov. 8, 2012).
  19. Southern Methodist University (February 1, 2013).
  20. University of Missouri (March 15, 2013).
  21. International Conference on Chemical Bonding, Kauai, HI (July 5, 2013).
  22. Texas State University, San Marcos (October 7, 2013).
  23. CECAM Workshop: Structure-Property Relationships of Molecular Precursors to Organic Electronics, Lausanne, Switzerland (Oct. 24, 2013).
  24. Southwest Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Symposium on Advances in Computational and Theoretical Chemistry, Baylor University, Waco, TX (Nov 19, 2013).
  25. University of Pennsylvania (January 16, 2014).
  26. Quantum Theory Project, University of Florida (January 22, 2014).
  27. University of Florida (January 23, 2014).
  28. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (February 12, 2014).
  29. Duke University (February 13, 2014).
  30. North Carolina State University (February 14, 2014).
  31. 25th Austin Symposium on Molecular Structure and Dynamics, Dallas, TX (Mar. 1-4, 2014).
  32. Lehigh University (March 12, 2014).
  33. University of Michigan (April 10, 2014).
  34. University of Georgia (April 18, 2014).
  35. Emory University (April 21, 2014).
  36. Georgia Institute of Technology (April 22, 2014).
  37. Auburn University (April 24, 2014).
  38. University of California, Los Angeles (May 12, 2014).
  39. California Institute of Technology (May 13, 2014).
  40. 35th Reaction Mechanisms Conference, University of California, Davis (June 22, 2014).