Guide to Robert F. Curl
Academic papers,
1981-1995
Curl, Robert
F.
5.25 cubic feet
MS 483
Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice
University, Houston, TX
Materials are in English.
The collection holds the
chemistry research materials during a portion of Dr. Robert Curl's tenure at
Rice University, 1981-95. The materials, arranged chronologically, include
typescript copies, proofs, notes, charts, correspondence and reprints regarding
published and unfinished research.
Biographical Note
Robert F. Curl's affiliation with Rice University begins with his
bachelor's degree at Rice in 1954. He received his Ph.D. in 1957 at the
University of California, Berkeley. After a year at Harvard University as a
research fellow in microwave spectroscopy, Curl joined the Rice faculty as an
assistant professor in chemistry. In 1967 he became a full professor, served as
chair of the chemistry department from 1992-1996, and then as the Harry C. and
Olga K. Wiess Professor of Natural Sciences. In 2002, Curl was named the first
Pitzer Professor of Chemistry.
Curl has received many honors and awards including the Clayton Prize of
the Institute of Mechanical Engineers and the Alexander von Humboldt Senior US
Scientist Award from the University of Bonn, Germany. Along with Richard
Smalley (Rice University's Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry)
and Sir Harold Kroto (University of Sussex, Brighton, England), Curl received
the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery in 1985 of
buckminsterfullernes, the third molecular form of carbon. In 1992 the trio
received the American Physical Society International Prize for New
Materials.
Curl is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Lamba Upsilon and Sigma Xi, and
a Fellow of the Optical Society of America. He has been Visiting Research
Officer at the National Research Council of Canada, visiting scientist at the
Institute of Molecular Science, Okazaki, Japan, and the National Institute for
Standards and Technology in Boulder, the University of Bonn, and the University
of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Scope and Contents
The collection holds the chemistry research materials during a portion
of Curl's tenure at Rice University, 1981-95. The materials, arranged
chronologically, include typescript copies, proofs, notes, charts,
correspondence and reprints regarding published and unfinished research.
ArrangementMaterials are arranged chronologically beginning
with the 1981, to 1995, and ending with undated materials.
Access RestrictionsNo access restrictions; this material is
open for research.
Use Restrictions
Permission to publish material from the Robert F. Curl Academic papers
must be obtained from the Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library.
Index Terms
Subjects (Organizations)
Rice University - Department of Chemistry.
Rice University - Faculty.
Subjects:
Nobel Prizes.
Chemistry.
Chemistry -
Experiments.
Microwave
spectroscopy
Buckminsterfullerene
Formats
Notes.
Typescripts.
Charts.
Correspondence.
Related MaterialSee also Robert Curl, Richard Smalley,
Buckyball information (vertical) files, and [Rice] Nobel Prize Collection
record group.
Preferred Citation
Robert F. Curl Academic Papers, 1981-1995, MS 483, Woodson Research
Center, Fondren Library, Rice University
Acquisition Information
Received by the Woodson Research Center on Oct. 16, 1999, and officially
gifted to Rice University by Robert F. Curl on Dec. 9, 1999.
Detailed Description of the Collection
Group I: 1981-1984
1 1
High Resolution Study of the O-H
Stretch Fundamental of Methanol,
1981: research notes, charts,
printouts
1 2
Methanol research,
1981: notes, printouts, charts
1 3
Observation of the <emph
render="super">2</emph>P<emph render="sub">1/2</emph>←<emph
render="super">2</emph>P<emph render="sub">3/2</emph> Transition of the Br Atom
by Color Center Laser Spectroscopy,
Chemical Physics Letters,
Jan. 1981: reprint, printouts
1 4
Experimental Excitation of a Transition
State in a Chemical Reaction,
1983: typescript copy
1 5
Kinetic Spectroscopy with the Color
Center Laser,
Proceedings of the International Conference
on Lasers '83,
Dec. 1983: typescript copy, reprints,
notes
1 6
Chemiluminescent Channels Opened by
Photon Absorption During Reactive Collisions,
Proceedings of the Conference on Atomic and
Molecular Collisions in a Laser Field,
March 1984: typescript copy,
copyright
1 7
The far-infrared laser magnetic
resonance spectrum of the SiH radical and determination of ground state
parameters,
Journal of Chemical Physics,
Oct. 1984: notes, typescript
copies
1 8
Sensitivity improvement of tone-burst
modulated spectroscopy with a color-center laser,
Journal of the Optical Society of America
B,
Oct. 1984: reprint, notes, typescript copy,
corresp., printouts, transparencies
1 9
Color Center Laser Spectroscopy of
Transient Species Produced by Excimer Laser Flash Photolysis,
Journal of the Optical Society of
America,
1984: corresp., typescript copy
Group II: 1985
2 1
Rotational analysis of the
<emph render="italic">A</emph>←<emph render="italic">X</emph> system of C<emph
render="sub">2</emph>H<emph render="super">a)</emph>,
Journal of Chemical Physics,
April 1985: reprint, corresp., typescript
copy, printouts
2 2
Rotational analysis… revisions,
1985: printouts, notes, corresp.
2 3
Rotational analysis… erratum,
1985: reprint, notes, printouts
2 4
Color center laser kinetic
spectroscopy: observation of the A<emph render="super">1</emph>ΔNH vibrational
fundamental,
Journal of the Optical Society of
America,
May 1985: proof, reprint, typescript copy,
notes, printouts
2 5
The Microwave and Far-Infrared Spectra
of the SiH Radical,
The Astrophysical Journal,
May 1985: copyright, reprints
2 6
Erratum: Rotational analysis of the
<emph render="italic">A</emph>←<emph render="italic">X</emph> system of C<emph
render="sub">2</emph>H,
Journal of Chemical Physics,
Oct. 1985: reprint, typescript copies,
corresp., charts, printouts
3 1
C<emph render="sub">60</emph>:
Buckminsterfullerene,
Nature,
Nov. 1985: reprints, proofs
3 2
Magnetic Rotation Observation of the
C<emph render="sub">2</emph> Transition Using a Color Center Laser,
Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy,
1985: reprints, printouts, corresp.,
notes
3 3
Lanthanum Complexes of Spheroidal
Carbon Shells,
Journal of the American Chemical
Society,
1985: reprint, typescript copy
3 4
Laser Magnetic Resonance Spectrum of
the <emph render="italic">v</emph><emph render="sub">1</emph> band of
NCO,
1985: typescript copy, notes,
charts
3 5
Semiconductor cluster beams: One and
two color ionization studies of Si<emph render="sub">x</emph> and Ge<emph
render="sub">x</emph>,
Journal of Chemical Physics,
Dec. 1985: typescript copy, reprints, notes,
corresp.
3 6
Supersonic III-V Semiconductor Cluster
Beams: Ga<emph render="sub">x</emph>As<emph render="sub">y</emph>,
Journal of Chemical Physics,
1985: typescript copy, proof,
corresp.
Group III: 1986-1987
3 7
Photoexcitation of Reaction Complexes
in the Reaction K+NaCl→KCl+Na,
Journal of Chemical Physics,
July 1986: notes, reports, corresp.,
typescript copy
3 8
Studies of the NH<emph
render="sub">2</emph>+NO Reaction by Infrared Kinetic Spectroscopy,
Journal of Physical Chemistry,
May 1986: notes, reprint, typescript
copy
3 9
Reactivity of Large Carbon Clusters:
Spheroidal Carbon Shells and Their Possible Relevance to the Formation and
Morphology of Soot,
Journal of Physical Chemistry,
1986: reprint, typescript copy
3 10
Negative Carbon Cluster Ion Beams: New
Evidence for the Special Nature of C<emph render="sub">60</emph>,
Chemical Physics Letters,
May 1986: reprint, copyright, typescript
copy
3 11
Observation of the laser-assisted
reaction K+NaCl+h<emph render="italic">v</emph>→Na*+KCl using K atoms selected
by a hexapole magnetic field,
Physical Review A,
Nov. 1986: reprint, notes, typescript
copy
3 12
Photodetachment and photofragmentation
studies of semiconductor cluster anions,
Journal of Chemical Physics,
1986: reprint, corresp., copyright, typescript
copy, notes, report, proof
4 1
A Reply to `Magic Numbers in C<emph
render="sub">n</emph><emph render="super">+</emph> and C<emph
render="sub">n</emph><emph render="super">-</emph> Abaundance Distributions
Based on Experimental Observations,
Chemical Physics Letters,
1986: copyright, notes, printouts, typescript
copy
4 2
Color Center Laser Spectroscopy of
Vibrationally Excited C<emph render="sub">2</emph>H,
Journal of Chemical Physics,
1986: notes, reprint, corresp., proof,
typescript copy
4 3
Multiwavenumber linearized diode laser
spectra by overlapping frequency scans,
Applied Optics,
Jan. 1987: corresp., charts, proof, typescript
copy
4 4
Color Center Laser Spectoscopy of
C<emph render="sub">2</emph>H and C<emph render="sub">2</emph>D,
Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy,
1987: reprint, typescript copy, notes, proof,
printouts
4 5
"Infrared Kinetic Spectroscopy Using a Color-Center
Laser,,
Spectroscopy,
March 1987: reprint, typescript copy, charts,
proof
4 6
Long Carbon Chain Molecules in
Circumstellar Shells,
The Astrophysical Journal,
March 1987: reprint
4 7
The UV absorption spectrum of C<emph
render="sub">60</emph> (buckminsterfullerene): A narrow band at 3860 A,
Journal of Chemical Physics,
Oct. 1987: reprint, corresp., reports,
typescript copy
4 8
Rate Constant Measurements of Reactions
of C<emph render="sub">2</emph>H with H<emph render="sub">2</emph>, O<emph
render="sub">2</emph>, C<emph render="sub">2</emph>H<emph render="sub">2</emph>
and NO Using Color Center Laser Kinetic Spectroscopy,
Journal of Physical Chemistry,
Dec. 1987: corresp., typescript copy,
copyright, charts, notes, proofs
4 9
Carbon Condensation,
1987: reprint, typescript copy
Group IV: 1988-1989
4 10
Photophysics of buckminsterfullerene
and other carbon cluster ions,
Journal of Chemical Physics,
Jan. 1988: reprint, notes, typescript copy,
corresp., proof
5 1
Photodissasociation of semiconductor
positive cluster ions,
Journal of Chemical Physics,
Feb. 1988: reprint, charts, proofs, typescript
copy
5 2
Infrared flash kinetic spectroscopy of
HCO,
Journal of Chemical Physics,
Feb. 1988: reprint, corresp., notes, charts,
printouts, proof, typescript copy
5 3
HCO fits,
n.d.: printouts
5 4
Unbiased Least-Squares Fitting of Lower
States,
Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy,
1988: reprint, printouts, proof, typescript
copy
5 5
Probing C<emph
render="sub">60</emph>,
Science,
Nov. 1988: reprint, proof, corresp, notes,
typescript copy
6 1
Infrared Kinetic Spectroscopy of C<emph
render="sub">2</emph>H and C<emph render="sub">2</emph>D,
Journal of Molecular Structure,
1988: reprint, charts, notes, typescript copy,
corresp., proof
6 2
Absorption Cross-section for the OH
Fundamental,
1989: typescript copy, notes, corresp.,
printouts
6 3
Gallium Arsenide Cluster
Studies, NICOLS: Ninth International Conference on Laser Spectroscopy,
1989: typescript copies
6 4
Reaction Mechanism of C<emph
render="sub">2</emph>H+O<emph render="sub">2</emph>,
Journal of Physical Chemistry,
1989: corresp., proofs, typescript copy,
notes
6 5
Ammonia Chemisorption on Gallium
Arsenide Clusters,
Chemical Physics Letters,
1990: copyright, corresp., charts, typescript
copy
Group V: 1990-1991
6 6
Thermal DeNOx: No HNO at Room
Temperature,
Chemical Physics Letters,
1990: copyright, corresp., typescript copy,
notes, printout
7 1
The OH Stretching Fundamental of
Methanol,
Journal of Molecular Structure,
1990: typescript copy, notes, charts,
corresp., copyright, printouts, reprints
7 2
Infrared Flash Kinetic Spectroscopy of
the Ketyl Radical,
Chemical Physics Letters,
1990: corresp., typescript copy, copyright,
charts, reprints, printouts, notes
7 3
Infrared Spectroscopy of Jet-Cooled
Transient Molecules,
Chemical Physics Letters,
1990: typescript copy, copyright, reports,
corresp., notes, charts, transparency
7 4
Rate Constant Measurements of C<emph
render="sub">2</emph>H with CH<emph render="sub">4</emph>, C<emph
render="sub">2</emph>H<emph render="sub">6</emph>, C<emph
render="sub">2</emph>H<emph render="sub">4</emph>, D<emph render="sub">2</emph>
and CO,
Journal of Physical Chemistry,
1990: typescript copy, corresp., reports,
proof, notes, copyright, charts, printout
7 5
Observation of structure in transition
state spectra of the bimolecular reactions K+XNa→KX+Na (X=Br, Cl),
Journal of Chemical Physics,
April 1991: reprint
7 6
"Cold Molecular Beam Electronic Spectrum of C60 and C70,
Journal of Chemical Physics,
1991: typescript copy, proof, charts,
copyright, corresp.
7 7
Fullerenes: The Third Form of Pure
Carbon,
Scientific American,
Oct. 1991: typescript copy, corresp., notes,
reprint
7 8
C60ΔHf,
1991: research notes
7 9
Two Varieties of C<emph
render="sub">n</emph>·Ar<emph render="super">+</emph>,
Chemical Physics Letters,
1991: typescript copies
8 1
Infrared Flash Kinetic Spectroscopy of
<emph render="italic">v</emph><emph render="sub">2</emph> of Ketenyl
Radical,
Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy,
1991: proof, notes, corresp., charts,
copyright, printout
Group VI: 1992-1993
8 2
Vibrational relaxation of acetylene
produced by the photolysis of vinyl bromide,
Journal of Chemical Physics,
1992: proof, typescript copy, charts,
printout, corresp., reprints
8 3
Continuous-wave infrared laser
spectrometer based on difference frequency generation in AgGaS<emph
render="sub">2</emph> for high-resolution spectroscopy,
Journal of the Optical Society of America
B,
Feb. 1992: reprint, notes, typescript
copy
8 4
Photoexcitation spectra of transition
region species in reactions of potassium with sodium halides,
Journal of Chemical Physics,
1992: typescript copy
8 5
Optimization of a mid-infrared high
resolution difference frequency laser spectrometer,
Journal of the Optical Society of America
B,
1992: corresp., typescript copy
8 6
Acetylene Combustion Reactions: Rate
Constant Measurements of HCCO with O<emph render="sub">2</emph> and C<emph
render="sub">2</emph>H<emph render="sub">2</emph>,
Chemical Physics Letters,
1992: typescript copy, reports, copyright,
corresp.
8 7
Rotationally Resolved Spectrum of the
<emph render="italic">v</emph><emph render="sub">1</emph> CH Stretch of the
Propargyl Radical,
Chemical Physics Letters,
1992: typescript copy, notes,
corresp.
8 8
Isomers of Gallium Arsenide Cluster
Ions,
Chemical Physics Letters,
1992: corresp., typescript copy,
reports
8 9
Mass Spectrometric Studies of the
Fullerences,
Buckminsterfullerene and Related Carbon
Clusters,"
1992: corresp., typescript copy, copyright,
reprint, negatives
9 1
Gallium Arsenide Clusters Etched by
NO,
Journal of Chemical Physics,
1992: corresp., typescript copy
9 2
Pre-1990 Evidence for the Fullerene
Proposal,
Carbon,
1992: corresp., typescript copy,
copyright
9 3
Difference-frequency generation in
AgGaS<emph render="sub">2</emph> by using single-mode diode-laser pump
sources,
Optics Letters,
July 1993: proof, corresp., copyright,
typescript copy
9 4
Branching Ratio of the Reaction NH<emph
render="sub">2</emph>+NO at Elevated Temperatures,
Journal of Physical Chemistry,
Aug. 1993: proof, corresp., typescript
copy
9 5
The <emph render="italic">v</emph><emph
render="sub">1</emph> fundamental of HCCN: Evidence for quasilinearity,
Chemical Physics Letters,
1993: copyright, corresp., charts, typescript
copy
9 6
Formation and Chemistry of the
Fullerenes,
Applied Superconductivity,
1993: reprint, corresp., typescript
copy
9 7
On the Formation of the
Fullerenes,
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal
Society of London, Series A,
1993: typescript copy, corresp.
9 8
A Widely Tunable Difference Frequency
Source for Infrared Kinetic Spectroscopy,
Proceedings of the International Conference
on LASERS '92,
1993: typescript copy
9 9
Probing Chemical Reaction: Evidence for
Exploration of an Excited Potential Energy Surface at Thermal Energies,
Science,
1993: typescript copy, corresp.,
report
9 10
Fullerences: Collapse and Growth,"
Nature,
1993: corresp., reports
9 11
NH2+NO Yields as function of T,
1993: typescript copies, notes
10 1
Design Considerations of an Infrared
Spectrometer Based on Difference Frequency Generation in AgGaSe<emph
render="sub">2</emph>,
Applied Optics,
1993: reprint, typescript copies
10 2
Branching Ration of the Reaction
NH<emph render="sub">2</emph>+NO at Elevated Temperatures,
Journal of Physical Chemistry,
1993: notes, printouts corresp., reprint,
typescript copy
Group VII: 1993-1995
10 3
The Reaction of NH<emph
render="sub">2</emph> with O,
Journal of Physical Chemistry,
June 1994: reprint, typescript copy,
corresp.
10 4
Rate Constant Measurement of the
Recombination Reaction C<emph render="sub">3</emph>H<emph
render="sub">3</emph>+C<emph render="sub">3</emph>H<emph
render="sub">3</emph>,
Journal of Physical Chemistry,
July 1994: proof, corresp., typescript copy,
reports, notes
10 5
CW difference frequency generation
using AgGaS<emph render="sub">2</emph>: problems encountered in power
scaling,
Nonharmonic Optical Frequency Conversion:
Parametric Oscillators and Related Devices,
1994: typescript copy, corresp.
10 6
Quasi-Linearity in HCCN: Effects on the
<emph render="italic">v</emph><emph render="sub">2</emph> Fundamental,,
Festschrift,
1995: typescript copy, reprint,
copyright
10 7
Detection of CO in air using
diode-pumped 4.6 µm difference frequency generation in quasi-phase-matched
LiNbO<emph render="sub">3</emph>,
Optics Letters,
1995: typescript copy, corresp.
10 8
Propargyl from the Reaction of Singlet Methylene with
Acetylene,"
Journal of Physical Chemistry,
1995: reprint, corresp., copyright
10 9
Detection of methane in air using
diode-laser pumped difference-frequency generation near 3.2 µm,
Applied Physics B Lasers and Optics,
1995: reprint, corresp.
Group VIII: Undated
11 1
Water/gas modification of thermal DeNOx,
n.d. [research]: charts
11 2
Difference Frequency Generation in
AgGaS<emph render="sub">2</emph> Using Single-Mode Diode Laser Pump
Sources,
Optics Letters,
n.d.: typescript copy
11 3
The Role of Fine Structure States in a
Chemical Reaction: Na*+KBr→NaBr+K*,
n.d.: typescript copy, notes,
charts
11 4
A Continuously Tunable Long Wavelength
CW IR Source for High-Resolution Spectroscopy and Trace Gas Detection,
n.d.: typescript copies
11 5
Compact tunable difference-frequency
sources in the mid-infrared pumped by single-mode diode lasers,
n.d.: typescript
11 6
Compact external cavity
differnce-frequency sources in the mid-infrared based on AgGaS<emph
render="sub">2</emph> and diode lasers,
n.d.: typescript copy
11 7
CW tunable 8/7-µm spectroscopic source
pumped by fiber-coupled communications diode lasers,
n.d.: typescript copy
11 8
High Resolution Diode Laser
Spectroscopy of Transient Species, EICOLS,
n.d.: typescript copy
11 9
Diode Laser Kinetic
Spectroscopy,
n.d.: typescript copy
11 10
Laser Vaporization of Graphite,
n.d.: reports
11 11
Kinetic Spectroscopy Using a Color
Center Laser,
Color Center Laser Spectroscopy of Free
Radicals, ILS,
n.d.: typescript copies
11 12
Measurement of Nonlinear Coefficient
and Phase Matching Characteristics of AgGaS<emph render="sub">2</emph>,
Journal of Quantum Electronics,
n.d.: notes, typescript copy
11 13
CW Difference Frequency Generation in
AgGaS<emph render="sub">2</emph>,
n.d.: typescript copies
11 14
Compact external cavity
difference-frequency sources in the mid-infrared based on AgGaS<emph
render="sub">2</emph> and diode lasers,
n.d.: typescript copy