• Instructional Materials for Chemistry courses
• Material developed for General Chemistry courses
• Errors in Silberberg's Chemistry: The Molecular Nature of Matter and Change (McGraw Hill 2009)
• POGIL exercises
• acid-base chemistry
• equilibria
• inorganic chemistry
• kinetics
• nuclear chemistry
• quantum chemistry
• CHIME-based Educational Resources for teaching Biological and Inorganic Chemistry
  • solid state structures
  • Molecular Cruiser for viewing protein structures (.pdb files)
• Least squares fitting of data:
• theory of least squares fitting of data
• Exercises involving enzyme kinetics (this is a pdf file)
  • you may also download a filled-out EXCEL spreadsheet based on exercise 1 on pages 4-5:
• an EXCEL macro for general linear and non-linear least squares problems. Instructions for using this are given in Exercise #4 on p. 9 of the enzyme kinetics exercise listed above, but it may be adapted for a wide variety of data fitting applications.
• Lipoxygenase
• How to search the Cambridge Structure Database at Haverford College
• X-ray spectroscopy (EXAFS etc.)
• EXAFS123, an EXAFS analysis package I wrote
• f7and8runner, a front-end to the FEFF software package

I received a B.A. in Chemistry from Oberlin College in 1980, and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1985. My doctoral studies were in under the guidance of Prof. Kenneth Raymond, and I spent three years as a post-doctoral research associate of Prof. Lawrence Que, Jr. of the University of Minnesota.

Click here to download my CV (pdf format)

• Bioinorganic Chemistry: Modeling the Reactivity of Oxygen with Metalloproteins.
• Coordination Chemistry: Thermodynamic, Kinetic and Structural Characterization of Metal-Ligand Complexes.

• "Identification of the Dinuclear and Tetranuclear Air-Oxidized Products Derived from Labile Phenolate-Bridged Dimanganese(II) Pyridyl-Chelate Compounds." Larsen, F. B.; Boisen, A.; Berry, K. J.; Moubaraki, B.; Murray, K. S.; McKee, V.; Scarrow, R. C.; McKenzie, C. J. Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2006, 2006, 3841–3852.
• "Development of porous materials for heterogeneous catalysis: kinetic resolution of epoxides." Welbes, L. L.; Scarrow, R. C.; Borovik, A. S. Chem. Commun., 2004, 2544-2545.
• "How does cyanide inhibit superoxide reductase? Insight from synthetic FeIIIN4S model complexes." Shearer, J.; Fitch, S. B.; Kaminsky, W.; Benedict, J.; Scarrow, R. C.; Kovacs, J. A., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2003, 100, 3671-3676.
• "A dihydroxo-bridged Fe(II)-Fe(III) complex: A new member of the diiron diamond core family."  Egdal, R. K.; Hazell, A.; Larsen, F. B.; McKenzie, C. J.; Scarrow, R. C. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 125, 32-33.
• "Synthetic Models For the Cysteinate?Ligated Non?Heme Iron Enzyme Superoxide Reductase: Observation and Structural Characterization by XAS of an FeIII-OOH Intermediate."  Shearer, J.; Scarrow, R. C.; Kovacs, J. A. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 11709-11717.
• "The First Example of a Nitrile Hydratase Model Complex that Reversibly Binds Nitriles."  Shearer, J.; Jackson, H. L.; Schweitzer, D.; Rittenberg, D. K.; Leavy, T. M.*; Kaminsky, W.; Scarrow, R. C.; Kovacs, J. A. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 11417-11428.
• "Probing the Structure of Immobilized Metal Sites in Porous Organic Hosts by X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy." Padden, K. M.; Krebs, J. F.; Trafford, K. T.*; Yap, G. P. A.; Rheingold, A. H.; Borovik, A. S.; Scarrow, R. C. Chem. Mater. 2001, 13, 4305-4313.
• "Immobilized Metal Complexes in Porous Organic Hosts: Development of a Material for the Selective and Reversible Binding of Nitric Oxide." Padden, K. M.; Krebs, J. F.; MacBeth, C. E.; Scarrow, R. C.; Borovik, A. S. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 1072-1079.
• "Porphobilinogen synthase from pea: expression from an artificial gene, kinetic characterization, and novel implications for subunit interactions." Kervinen, J.; Dunbrack, R. L., Jr.; Litwin, S.; Martins, J.; Scarrow, R. C.; Volin, M.; Yeung, A. T.; Yoon, E.; Jaffe, E. K. Biochemistry 2000, 39, 9018-9029.
• "Zinc ligation in the active site of human and bovine porphobilinogen synthases." Sazinksy, M. H.*; Ehrenfeld, J.*; Jaffe, E. K.; Scarrow, R. C. J. Inorg. Biochem. 1999, 74, 287.
• "Protonation of porphyrin in iron-free cytochrome c: Identification of monocation free base porphyrin, a charge analogue of ferric heme." Zentko, S.*; Scarrow, R. C.; Wright, W. W.; Vanderkooi, J. M. Biospectroscopy1999, 5, 141-150.
• "X-ray Spectroscopy of Nitric Oxide Binding to Iron in Inactive Nitrile Hydratase and a Synthetic Model Compound." Scarrow, R. C.; Strickler, B. S.*; Ellison, J. J.; Shoner, S. C.; Kovacs, J. A.; Cummings, J. G.; Nelson, M. J. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1998, 120, 9237-9245.

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