Professor Leo Radom

Position

ARC Australian Professorial Fellow in the School of Chemistry, the University of Sydney.

Qualifications
•    Fellow, Senior Fellow, Professorial Fellow, Professor, (1974- 2003) ANU.
•    QE II Fellow (1972-1974), Research School of Chemistry, ANU.
•    Postdoctoral studies (1969-1972) Carnegie-Mellon University, USA with John Pople
•    PhD (1969) the University of Sydney.
•    Elected to the Australian Academy of Science (1988) and to the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science (1988).
•    President of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (WATOC).

Expertise
•    Computational quantum chemistry.
•    Theoretical studies of the chemistry of free radicals.

Key Areas of Research

•    Stabilities and reactions of free radicals, including peptide radicals.
•    Oxidative damage to proteins, including particularly HOCl- and HOBr-mediated damage.
•    Enzyme-catalyzed reactions, including B12-mediated radical mechanisms.
•    Transition-metal-free hydrogenation and hydogenolysis, including comparisons of radical and ionic mechanisms, and hydrogen bonding.
•    Alkali metal chemistry, including structures and other properties of small alkali-metal-containing radicals.
•    Formulation and assessment of improved theoretical procedures, including improved
•    methods for the description of radicals.

Selected Publications

Tian, Z; Chan, B; Sullivan, MB; Radom, L; Kass, SR. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 2008, 105, 7647–7651.

Sandala, GM; Smith, DM; Radom, L. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 10684–10690.