Chemistry Department
Dr. Rollin A. King
Associate Professor of Chemistry
B.S. Huntington College, Ph.D. University of Georgia
rking@bethel.edu or x6792
Research Interests
My research interests lie in the development of quantum chemistry. Quantum chemistry is an enjoyable mix of mathematics, physics, chemistry and computer science. The research includes the invention of new methods and their implementation into computer programs. With colleagues around the country I am continuing development of the PSI program. Currently, I am working on properties (including dipole moments and hydrogen-bonding capabilities) of molecules in electronically excited states.
Teaching Interests
My principal teaching duties are in General Chemistry and Physical Chemistry. In the general education curriculum, I have also taught Modern Alchemy; Genetics, Ethics, and the Law (team-teaching with my wife April); and Chance or Design: Our Place in the Cosmos.
Brief Biography
April and I are both from Indiana and are alumni from Huntington University. We went to the University of Georgia for graduate school. While there, I earned a Ph.D. at the Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry and my wife earned her law degree. We then lived in Europe for a year and a half. I did postdoctoral research in Zurich at the ETHZ for half a year and in England at Cambridge University for a year. We came to Bethel in January 2001. We now have a six-year old daughter Hannah, a five-year old daughter Sophie, and a three-year old son Gabriel.
Below is a picture of my family at the State Botanical Gardens in Athens, Georgia during my sabbatical in 2008.
Recent Publications
"Low-lying singlet excited states of isocyanogen", Ashley L. Ringer, C. David Sherrill, Rollin A. King, and T. Daniel Crawford, International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, 108, 1137-1140 (2008).
"Photo-rearrangement of N-substituted pyridinium and meta-alkoxypyridinium ions", Kerri Grove, Rollin A. King and Ulrich Burger, Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM, 807, 25-32 (2007).
"The lowest 2A' excited state of the water-hydroxyl complex", T. Daniel Crawford, Micah L. Abrams, Rollin A. King, Joseph R. Lane, Daniel P. Schofield, and Henrik G. Kjaergaard, Journal of Chemical Physics, 125, 204302-1-6 (2006).
"PSI3: An open-source ab initio electronic structure package", T.D. Crawford, C.D. Sherrill, E.F. Valeev, J.T. Fermann, R.A. King, M.L. Leininger, S.T. Brown, C.L. Janssen, E.T. Seidl, J.P. Kenny, and W.D. Allen, Journal of Computational Chemistry, 28, 1610-1616 (2007).
"Application of equation-of-motion coupled cluster methods to low-lying singlet and triplet electronic states of HBO and BOH", Nathan J. DeYonker, Se Li, Yukio Yamaguchi, Henry F. Schaefer, T. Daniel Crawford, Rollin A. King, and Kirk A. Peterson, Journal of Chemical Physics, 122, 234316-1-13 (2005).
"Coupled cluster methods including triple excitations for excited states of radicals", Christopher E. Smith, Rollin A. King, and T. Daniel Crawford, Journal of Chemical Physics, 122, 054110-1-8 (2005).
"Computational Study of the Structure and Synthesis of Formazans", Rollin A. King and Benjamin Murrin, Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 108, 4961-4965 (2004).
"Locally correlated equation-of-motion coupled cluster theory for the excited states of large molecules", T. Daniel Crawford and Rollin A. King, Chemical Physics Letters, 366 611-622, (2002).
"Kinetic Energy Functionals for Molecular Calculations", Rollin A. King and Nicholas C. Handy, Molecular Physics, 99, 1005-1009 (2001).
"The Photohydration of N-alkylpyridinium Salts, Theory and Experiment", Rollin A. King, Hans P. Luethi, Henry F. Schaefer, Fabrice Glarner and Ulrich Burger. Chemistry, A European Journal, 7, 1734-1742 (2001).