The University of Texas at Arlingon

  Donald R. Bobbitt       
Bio-Analytical Chemistry


Professor, Provost and
Vice President for Academic Affairs

B.S. (Chemistry), University of Arkansas, Fayetteville (1980)

Ph.D. (Analytical Chemistry), Iowa State University (1985)

Dean, J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville (2003-2008)
     

 

Phone: 817-272-2103   FAX: 817-272-3400   E-mail: dbobbitt@uta.edu   Office: 321 Davis Hall      Personal Page


Honors:

Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar Fellowship (1988-1993)

Fulbright College Master Teacher Award, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville (1991)

University of Arkansas Alumni Association Award in Teaching and Research (1991)

National Tour Speaker, Society for Applied Spectroscopy, Fredrick, Maryland (1994-1995)

Associate Editor – The Microchemical Journal, Elsevier Science (1994-2000)

Editorial Advisory Board – Talanta, Elsevier Science 1996-2001


Research interests:

Bio-analytical Chemistry:  Pharmaceutical analysis;  polarization-selective spectroscopy with application to stereo-selective analysis;  biomolecular structure, dynamically modified optical fiber biosensors;  Ru+3-based chemiluminescence detection of biogenic amines and amino acids.


Patents:

Chemiluminescent Detection of Amino Acids; Donald R. Bobbitt and Stephen N. Brune; issued March 29, 1994; no. 5,298,427.

Sensitive Detection of Underivatized Amines and Amino Acids Using In Situ-Generated Ru(bpy)33+ after Separation by Capillary Electrophoresis; Donald R. Bobbitt and Warren A. Jackson, issued March 25, 1997; no. 5,614,073.

Selected Recent Publications:

Wang, X. and Bobbitt, D. R., Electrochemically Generated Ru(bpy)33+-Based Chemiluminescence Detection in Micellar Electrokinetic Chromatography, Talanta 2000, 53, 337-345.

Hendrickson, H. P., Anderson, P., Wang, X., Pittman, Z. and Bobbitt, D. R., Compositional Analysis of Small Peptides Using Capillary Electrophoresis and Ru(bpy)33+-Based Chemiluminescence Detection, Microchem. J. 2000, 65, 189-195.

Bobbitt, D. R. and Linder, S.W., Recent Advances in Chiral Detection for High Performance Liquid Chromatography, Trends Anal. Chem. 2001, 20, 111-123.

Fry, D. R.. and Bobbitt, D. R., Investigation of Dynamically Modified Optical-Fiber Sensors for pH Sensing at the Extremes of the pH Scale, Microchem. J. 2001, 69, 123-131.

Bobbitt, D. R. and Edkins, T. G.., Miniaturization of Chiral-Selective Detectors for HPLC, Anal. Chem. 2001, 73, 488A-496A.

Waguespack, B. L., Lilliquist, A., Townley, J. C. and Bobbitt, D. R., Evaluation of a Tertiary Amine Labeling Protocol for Peptides and Proteins using Ru(bpy)33+-based Chemiluminescence Detection, Anal. Chim. Acta 2001, 441, 231-241.

Fry, D. R. and Bobbitt, D. R., Hapten Immobilization for Sensing using a Dynamic Modification Protocol, Talanta 2001, 55, 1195-1203.

Edkins, T. J., Shah, R. D., Meier, P., Bobbitt, D. R., Saranadasa, H. and Lodevico, R. D., Quantitative Analysis of Incomplete HPLC Resolution of Enantiomers. Fit of Polarimetric Detection for D- and L-Phenylalanine to a Gaussian Function, Enantiomer 2002, 7, 11-22.

Linder, S. W., Yanik, G. W., Francotte, E. R., and Bobbitt, D. R., Real-time Assessment of Enantiomeric Purity via a Polarimetric/Absorption Detector Response Function, Enantiomer  2002, 7, 41-47.

Linder, S. W., Yanik, G. W and Bobbitt, D. R., Evaluation of Laser-Based Polarimetry for Assessment of Enantiomeric Excess (EE) at the Extremes of the EE Scale, Microchem. J. 2004, 76, 105-112.

 

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