Faculty Research: Bart Kahr

Kahr, Bart
Associate Professor
Chemistry
Lab Website: http://faculty.washington.edu/annkurth/
Office Phone: (206) 616-8195

Awards and Professional Activities:

Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude (Middlebury College), 1983

Highest Honors, Art; High Honors, Chemistry (Middlebury College), 1983

American Institute of Chemists' Prize (Middlebury College), 1983

Hugh Stott Taylor Prize (Princeton University), 1984

National Science Foundation Young Investigator, 1994-99

Troisiéme Cycle Lecturer, Western Swiss Universities, 1996

H. H. King Lectureship, Kansas State University, 2001

Areas of Research:

Selected Publications:

K. Claborn, B. Kahr, W. Kaminsky, “Classical Calculations of the Optical Properties of the Tetraphenyl-X Family of Isomorphous Crystals (X=C, Si, Ge, Sn, Pb)”, Cryst. Eng. Comm., 2002, 252-256.

B. Kahr, L. Vasquez, “Painting Crystals”, Cryst. Eng. Comm, 2002, 514-516. Click here to download a reprint of this article

W. Kaminsky, E. Haussühl, L. D. Bastin. J. A. Subramony, B. Kahr, “Correlation of Chiral KH₂PO₄ Growth Hillocks with Absolute Configuration of the Faces,” J. Cryst. Growth, 2002, 234, 523-528.

H. C. Wang, M. Kurimoto, B. Kahr, J. Chmielewski, “a-Lactose Monohydrate Single Crystals as Hosts for Matrix Isolation of Guest Biopolymers,” Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 2001, 9, 2279-2283.

B. Kahr, R. W. Gurney, “Dyeing Crystals,” Chem. Rev. 2001, 101, 893-951. Click here to download a reprint of this article

D. Hrovat, W. T. Borden, P. Eaton, B. Kahr, “A computational Study of the Interactions among the Nitro Groups in Octanitrocubane,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 1289-1293. Click here to download a reprint of this article

W. Kaminsky, B. Kahr, “Crystal Optics and the Symmetry Principle: An Update,” Symmetry 2000, Wenner-Gren Foundation, Stockholm, 2001, 309-316.

R. W. Gurney, C. Mitchell, L. Bastin, S. Ham, B. Kahr, “Salting Benzenes,” J. Phys. Chem. B, 2000, 104, 878-892. Click here to download a reprint of this article

B. Kahr, S. Lovell, B. B. Marquardt, “Crystal Violet’s Shoulder,” J. Chem. Soc. Perkin 2, 1999, 2241-2248.

M. Kurimoto, P. Subramony, R. Gurney, S. Lovell, J. A. Chmielewski, B. Kahr, “Kinetic Stabilization of Biopolymers in Single-Crystal Hosts: Green Fluorescent Protein in a-Lactose Monohydrate,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1999, 121, 6952-6953. Click here to download a reprint of this article

S. Lovell, P. Subramony, B. Kahr “Poppy Acid: Synthesis and Crystal Chemistry,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1999, 121, 7020-7025.

G. A. Crundwell, B. A. Cowan, J. A. Hopkins, J. B. Grutzner, B. Kahr, “Vegard’s Rule Revisited in Ba_xPb_1-x(NO₃)₂ by NMR and XRD,” J. Solid State Chem. 1999, 145, 327-335.

B. Kahr, “Gibbs and Amistad,” Chemical Intelligencer, 1999, April, 24-31.

C. A. Mitchell, R. Gurney, B. Kahr, “On the Mechanism of Matrix Assisted Room Temperature Phosphorescence,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1998, 120, 9726-9727.

J. A. Subramony, S. Lovell, B. Kahr, “Polymorphism of Potassium Dihydrogen Phosphate,” Chem. Mat. 1998, 10, 2053-2057.

B. Morimoto, S. Lovell, B. Kahr, “Ecstasy: 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine,” Acta Cryst. Sect. C. 1998, 229-231.

B. Kahr, S. Lovell, J. A. Subramony, “The Progress of Logwood Extract,” Chirality 1998, 10, 66-77.

J. Chmielewski, J. Lewis, S. Lovell, R. Zutshi, P. Savickas, C. Mitchell, J. A. Subramony, B. Kahr, “Single Crystal Matrix Isolation of Biopolymers,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1997, 119, 10565.

P. Gopalan, G. Crundwell, A. Bakulin, M. L. Peterson, B. Kahr, “Effect of Habit Modification on Optical and X-ray Structures of Sodium Halate Mixed Crystals: The Etiology of Anomalous Double Refraction,” Acta Cryst. Sect. B. 1997, B53, 189-202.

B. Kahr, S.-H. Jang, J. A. Subramony, L. Bastin, M. P. Kelley, “Dyeing Salt Crystals for Optical Applications,” Adv. Mat. 1996, 8, 941-944.