Sarah J. Sobeck (Schmidtke)

Department/Affiliation: Chemistry
Phone: 330-263-2359
Office Address: 222 Severance Hall
Email: ssobeck@wooster.edu
Web Site: Sarah Sobeck (Schmidtke)

Degrees

• B.S. Marquette University, Chemistry and Mathematics 2000
• Ph.D. University of Minnesota, Physical Chemistry 2005

Area of Research

• Photochemistry
• Spectroscopy
• Chemical kinetics
• Computational chemistry

Courses Taught

• CHEM 101:  Chemistry and the World in Which We Live
• CHEM 110:  Introductory Chemistry
• CHEM 120:  Principles of Chemistry
• CHEM 318:  Physical Chemistry I
• CHEM 319:  Physical Chemistry II
• CHEM 401:  Introduction to Independent Study

I.S. Projects

• Elana Stennett: Elucidating the pKa of Three hydroxybenzophenone Derivative Sunscreen Molecules through Computational and Experimental Methods

Awards and Professional Memberships

• American Chemical Society (ACS)
• Inter-American Photochemical Society (I-APS)

Publications

• Brandi M. Baughman, Elana Stennett, Rachel E. Lipner, Andrew C. Rudawsky, and Sarah H. Schmidtke; "Structural and Spectroscopic Studies of the Photophysical Properties of Benzophenone Derivatives." J. Phys. Chem. A, 2009, 113(28), 8011-8019.
• Sarah J. Schmidtke, Ph.D. Dissertation, "Physical Properties and Dynamics of Hydrogen Bonding and Proton Transfer Compounds." University of Minnesota, 2005.
• Sarah J. Schmidtke, David F. Underwood, and David A. Blank. "Probing excited-state dynamics and intramolecular proton transfer in 1-acylaminoanthraquinones via the intermolecular solvent response." J. Phys. Chem. A, 2005, 109(32), 7033-7045.
• Sarah J. Schmidtke, David F. Underwood, and David A. Blank. "Following the solvent directly during ultrafast excited state proton transfer." J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2004, 126(28), 8620-8621.
• Sarah J. Schmidtke, Laura A. MacManus-Spencer, Jamie J. Klappa, T. A. Mobley, Kristopher McNeill, and David A. Blank. "2-(2'-Pyridyl)pyrroles: Part I. Structure and energetics of Pyridylpyrroles, their Dimers, Complexes and Excited States." Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2004, 6(15), 3938-3947.
• Laura A. MacManus-Spencer, Sarah J. Schmidtke, David A. Blank, and Kristopher McNeill. "2-(2'-Pyridyl)pyrroles: Part II. Spectroscopic Investigations of Pyridylpyrrole Alcohol Complexes." Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2004, 6(15), 3948-3957.
• Jamie J. Klappa, Sarah Geers, Sarah J. Schmidtke, Laura A. MacManus-Spencer, and Kristopher McNeill. "Pyridylpyrrolides as alternatives to cyclometalated phenylpyridine ligands: Synthesis and characterization of luminescent zinc and boron pyridylpyrrolide complexes." Dalton, 2004, 6, 883-891.