Faculty
FLORIDA STATE / PEOPLE / FACULTY
Dr. Jack Saltiel, Professor

Professional Preparation/Appointments
B.A. Rice University (1960)
Ph.D. California Institute of Technology (1964)
Postdoc, University of California, Berkeley (1964)
Contact Information
jsaltiel@chem.fsu.edu | ||
Office | 615 DLC | 850.644.5405 |
Lab | 649 DLC | 850.644.8266 |
Programs of Research
Analytical, Organic, Physical
Research Specialties
Spectroscopy and Photochemistry
Research Interest
Jack Saltiel’s mechanistic studies have earned him worldwide recognition as the foremost authority on cis-trans photoisomerization. Seminal contributions fall principally in four areas:
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- Mechanisms of olefin cis-trans photoisomerization.
- Medium effects on the radiationless relaxation of electronically excited molecules.
- Spin-statistical factors in diffusion-controlled reactions.
- Factor analysis to resolve complex spectral matrices.
Publications
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Saltiel, J.; Krishnan, S.B.; Gupta, S.; Chakraborty, A.; Hilinski, E.F.; Lin, X. Photochemistry and Photophysics of Cholesta-5,7,9(11)-trien-3β-ol in Ethanol. Molecules, 2023, 28, 4086. |
Saltiel, J. The s-trans,s-cis-conformer of all-trans-1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene was detected: A response. J. Phys. Org. Chem. 2023, 36, e4439. |
Saltiel, J.; Krishnan, S.B.; Gupta, S.; Hernberg, E.A.; Clark, R.J. Photochemistry and Photophysics of Cholesta-5,7,9(11)-triene-3β-ol – A Fluorescent Analogue of Cholesterol. Photochem. Photobiol. Sci. 2022, 21, 37. |
Krishnan, S.B.; Clark, R.J.; Lin, X.; Dmitrenko, O.; Hilinski, E.F.; Kuhn, L.R.; Alabugin, I.V.; Saltiel, J. The a-Methylstilbene Isomers – Relationship of Structure to Photophysics and Photochemistry. J. Phys. Chem. A 2022, 126, 8976 |
Zimányi, L.; Thekkan, S.; Eckert, B.; Condren, A.R.; Dmitrenko, O.; Kuhn, L R.; Alabugin, I.V.; Saltiel, J. Determination of the pKa values of trans-Resveratrol, a Triphenolic Stilbene, by Singular Value Decomposition. Comparison with Theory J. Phys. Chem. A 2020, 124, 6294. |