Reza Popari, BSc, MSc, PhD, MBA Candidate

Physical Chemistry Laboratory Coordinator, Faculty of Science - Chemistry

Pronouns: He/Him/His

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Physical Chemistry Laboratory Coordinator, Faculty of Science - Chemistry

Email: reza.popari@ualberta.ca
Phone: (780) 492-4753
Address: W1-59 Chemistry Centre - West
11227 Saskatchewan Drive NW

Edmonton AB

T6G 2G2

Overview

Teaching

- CHEM 371/CHEM 373: Advanced Physical Chemistry - Topics in Thermodynamics and Kinetics

- CHEM 282: Utilization of Programming Languages (Python, Matlab, Mathematica, Maple, etc.) and Computational Tools (Gaussian, QChem, PSI4, NWChem, Orca, etc.) in Chemistry

- CHEM 398: Utilization of Molecular Spectroscopy in Chemistry

Featured Publications

Chirality discrimination at binary organic/water interfaces by interfacial tension measurements and MD simulations

ChemPhysChem. 2022 September; 10.1002/cphc.202200608

Transfer and amplification of chirality within the “Ring of Fire” observed in resonance Raman optical activity experiments

Angew. Chem. 2019 August; 10.1002/anie.201909603

Aggregation of lactic acid in cold rare-gas matrices and the link to solution: a matrix isolation-vibrational circular dichroism study

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2018 September; 10.1039/C8CP04748K

Reduction of Water/Oil Interfacial Tension by Model Asphaltenes: the Governing Role of Surface Concentration

J. Phys. Chem. B. 2016 June; 10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b03691

Rotational spectroscopy of methyl benzoylformate and methyl mandelate: structure and internal dynamics of a model reactant and product of enantioselective reduction

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2015 July; 10.1039/C5CP03114A

Conservation of helicity in a chiral pyrrol-2-yl Schiff-base ligand and its transition metal complexes

Inorg. Chem. 2015 April; 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b00386

Absolute configuration and conformation of two Fráter-Seebach alkylation reaction products by film VCD and ECD spectroscopic analyses

J. Org. Chem. 2014 December; 10.1021/jo502438a

Diastereomeric preference of a triply axial chiral binaphthyl based molecule: a concentration dependent study by chiroptical spectroscopies

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2014 May; 10.1039/c4cp01704h

Vibrational circular dichroism spectroscopy of three multidentate nitrogen donor ligands: Conformational flexibility and solvent effects

Chem. Asian. J. 2013 April; 10.1002/anie.201300707

Vibrational circular dichroism spectroscopy of two chiral binaphthyl diphosphine ligands and their palladium complexes in solution

Dalton Transactions . 2012 July; 10.1039/c2dt31184d