Terry S. Carlton

Terry S. Carlton,

Emeritus Professor, (at Oberlin 1963-2001) retired in 2001

Educational Background 

• Bachelor of Science, Duke University
• Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley 

Biography 

Research Interests: thermodynamics of water and aqueous solutions; quantum theory. My goal is to understand causes of hydrophobic effects, especially thermodynamic ones, associated with the dissolving of nonpolar molecules in water.

Taught: Physical Chem, General Chem

Contact Information: 
terry.carlton@oberlin.edu

Representative Publications:

• T.S. Carlton, "Using Heat Capacity and Compressibility To Choose among Two-State Models of
  Liquid Water", J. Chem. Phys. B, 2007, 111, 13398-13403
• T.S. Carlton, "Why the Lower-Energy Term of Singlet Dioxygen Has a Doubly Occupied π* Orbital," J. Chem. Edu., 2006, 83 (3), 477.
• T.S. Carlton, "Choosing and Searching", Oberlin Alumni Mag., Spring 2004, 99 (4), 11.
• T.S. Carlton, T.N. Nguyen*, "Orbital-based Interpretation of Electron Density Differences in Ne₂ and Polarized Ne and Ne⁶⁺", J. Phys. Chem. A, 1999, 103, 8870-8874.