Curriculum Vitae

Name: Nikita Matsunaga

Address:

Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Long Island University
1 University Plaza
Brooklyn, NY 11201
(718)488-1445
Nikita.Matsunaga@liu.edu

Birth: Feb. 21, 1961 Nakano-ku, Tokyo, Japan
          U.S. Permanent Resident

Education:

  • Harding University, Searcy, Ark. 1979 - 1980
  • American International College, Springfield, Mass. 1983 - 1986 Major: Biology. Minor: Chemistry. Bachelor of Arts with Honor (1986)
  • American International College, Springfield, Mass. 1986 - 1987 Post-baccalaureal Program. Major: Chemistry
  • Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. 1987 - 1989 Graduate school majoring in Chemistry
  • North Dakota State University, Fargo, N. Dakota. 1989 - 1992 Graduate school majoring in Physical Chemistry
  • Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. 1992-1995 Ph. D., Physical Chemistry (Quantum Chemistry) (1995) Thesis title: Theoretical studies of possible high energy density materials.


    • Employment:

  • The Johns Hopkins University, Post-doctoral fellow, Baltimore, Maryland, 1995-1996
  • The Johns Hopkins University, Research Associate, Baltimore, Maryland, 1996-1998
  • Long Island University, Assistant Professor, Brooklyn, New York, 1998-2004
  • University of California, Irvine, Visiting Assistant Researcher, Irvine, California, 1999
  • University of California, Irvine, Visiting Assistant Researcher, Irvine, California, 2000
  • Long Island University, Associate Professor, Brooklyn, New York, 2004-present


    • Awards and Professional Society:

  • Endowed Scholarship, American International College (1983 - 1986)
  • Biology Department Special Award, American International College (1986)
  • graduated with Honor (Bachelor of Arts) from American International College (1986)
  • American Chemical Society, 1988 - present
  • ASEND Graduate Enhancement Grant, North Dakota State University, 1991
  • Research Excellence Award, Iowa State University, 1995

    • Teaching Experience:

  • American International College, Springfield, Mass. 1983 - 1986. Microbiology Laboratory, General Zoology Laboratory. Teaching Assistant
  • American International College, Springfield, Mass. 1986 - 1987. Physiology and Anatomy Laboratory, Microbiology Laboratory. Teaching Assistant
  • Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. 1987 - 1989. General Chemistry Laboratory, Organic Chemistry Laboratory. Teaching Assistant
  • North Dakota State University, Fargo, N. Dakota 1989 - 1990. General Chemistry Laboratory. Teaching Assistant
  • Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York, 1998 - present. Assistant Professor


    • Other Technical Skills:

  • Computer language: BASIC, FORTRAN , C
  • Operating System: VAX, DOS, MacIntosh, UNIX, UNICOS
  • Others: networking--cluster of workstations and MacIntoshes, and large scale programming--parallel computation (TCGMSG) environment


    • Services:

  • Science Division Computer Committee, 1998-present
  • Reviewer of Journal of Physical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, Journal of Chemical Physics, Chemical Physics
  • Reviewer of grants: ACS PRF, NSF
  • Leadership Forum on Instructional Technology, 2000-2004
  • Round Table for Instructinoal Technology-Brooklyn Campus, 2001-present
  • Academic Computing and Computer Users' Committee, 2001-2004
  • Faculty Review Committee, 2005-2007
  • Intramural Grant Review Committee, 2006


    • Grant:

  • National Center for Supercomputing Applicaions (NCSA), 10000 SU for Electronic Structure of Molecules Relevant to Molecular Electroinic Devices (CHE010012N), 2000
  • National Center for Supercomputing Applicaions (NCSA), 10000 SU for Electronic Structure of Molecules Relevant to Molecular Electroinic Devices (CHE010012N), 2002
  • National Center for Supercomputing Applicaions (NCSA), 10000 SU for Electronic Structure of Molecules Relevant to Molecular Electroinic Devices (CHE010012N), 2003
  • Modeling of molecular diode, Sony Corporation, Japan, 2006.


    • Scientific Meetings and Presentations:

  • Poster presentation, "4'-deoxydoxorubicin and 4- demethoxydaunorubicin do not generate oxygen free radicals.", A. C. Dickinson, M. G. Boutin, N. Matsunaga, and D. Teres at the 76th annual meeting of American Association for Cancer Research(AACR) in Houston, Texas (1986)

  • Oral presentation, "4'-deoxydoxorubicin and 4- demethoxydaunorubicin do not generate oxygen free radicals." at the Undergraduate Research Symposium sponsored by Connecticut Valley Section of American Chemical Society (1986)

  • Participated in Waters Biological HPLC Seminar and Workshop in Millford, Mass. (1986)

  • Attended the 4th International Congress on Oxygen Radicals(ICOR) at La Jolla, Calif. (1987)

  • Poster presentation, "Theoretical Studies of NH4- and PH4-" at the 73rd Canadian Chemical Conference (1990) Halifax, Nova Scotia

  • Poster presentation, "Theoretical Studies of NH4- and PH4-" at High Energy Density Materials Contractors Conference (1991) in Albuquerque, New Mexico

  • Oral presentation, "Metastable Ions: NH4- and PH4- and Inorganic Benzenes" at the departmental seminar of Department of Chemistry, North Dakota State University (1991)

  • Poster presentation, "Inorganic Benzenes" at an International Symposium in Honor of Professor Klaus Ruedenberg (1991) in Ames, Iowa

  • Poster presentation, "Inorganic Benzenes" at the 74th Canadian Chemical Conference (1991) Hamilton, Ontario

  • Parallel Computing Workshop by AFOSR, Fargo, North Dakota (1992)

  • Poster presentation, "High Energy Isomer of Inorganic Benzene" at High Energy Density Materials Contractors Conference (1993) in Woods Hole, Mass.

  • Poster presentation, "Stabilities and Energetics of Inorganic Benzene Isomer: Prismanes" at American Chemical Society National Meeting (1993) in Chicago, Illinois

  • Poster presentation, "Applications of Parallel GAMESS" at Bunshi-Kouzou (1994) (Molecular Structure Meeting), at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

  • Oral presentation, "Parallelization" (invited) at Tokyo University (1994), Tokyo, Japan

  • Oral presentations, "Parallelization" and "Inorganic Benzene Isomers: Inorganic Prismanes" (invited) at Keio University (1994), Yokohama, Japan

  • Oral presentation, "GAMESS and Its Applications: High Energy Density Materials" (invited), at National Institute of Health (1995), Bethesda, Maryland

  • Poster presentation, "Spin-Forbidden Transitions in H2S", American Conference on Theoretical Chemistry, (1996), Park City, Utah

  • Oral presentation,"Nonadiabatic Chemistry: Photodissociation Dynamics of H2S" (invited), Long Island University (1997), Brooklyn, New York

  • Oral presentation, "Nonadiabatic Processes in Chemistry and Beyond" (invited), University of Memphis (1997), Memphis, Tennessee

  • Oral presentation, "Nonadiabatic Processes in Small Molecules and Beyond" (invited), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (1998), Richland, Washington

  • Poster presentation, "Singlet-Triplet Energy Gaps in Nitrenes", In the Frontiers of Quantum Chemistry and Chemical Reactions, Dedicated to the 65th Birthday of Prof. Keiji Morokuma, Emory University, (1999), Atlanta, Georgia

  • Oral presentation, "Chemistry of NO: Theoretical Studies of O-Nitrenes as Reactive Intermediates and NO Scission by M(OR)3 (M = V, Nb, and Ta)" (invited), Stevens Institute of Technology (2000), Hoboken, New Jersey.

  • Oral presentation, "Toward Realistic Vibrational Frequencies: Application of Degenerate Perturbation Theory", (invited) 2000 Computational Materials Science Meeting, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

  • Poster presentation, "Resonant Tunneling and the Substituent Effects for the Molecules Exhibiting Negative Differential Resistance in Molecular Electronic Devices", American Chemical Society National Meeting(2001), Chicago, Illinois.

  • Oral presentation, "Role of Surface Crossing in Nonadiabatic Transitions" (invited), American Chemical Society National Meeting(2001), Chicago, Illinois.

  • Poster presentation, "Resonant Tunneling and the Substituent Effects for the Molecules Exhibiting Negative Differential Resistance in Molecular Electronic Devices", Connecting to the Nano World/Nano-Scinece in a Mega-City, Oct. 19-20, 2001, Hunter College of CUNY, New York, New York.

  • Poster presentation, "Effect of Sustituents for Molecules Relevant to Molecular Electronic Device", American Chemical Society National Meeting (2002), Orlando, Florida.

  • Organized a symposium, "Modeling Spin Forbidden and Open-Shell Processes", at American Chemical Society National Meeting (2003), New York, New York.

  • Oral presentation, "I Do All My Chemistry on a Computer" (invited), New York City Technical College, CUNY (2004), Brooklyn, New York.

  • Oral presentation, "Toward Single-Molecule Electronic Devices" (invited), Brooklyn College, CUNY (2004), Brooklyn, New York.

  • Oral presentation, "Toward Single-Molecule Electronic Devices" (invited), Osaka Prefectural University (2004), Sakai-shi, Osaka, Japan.

  • Poster, "Conformational analysis of pH sensitive lipid polar head groups designed for drug delivery systems", Sean A. Nedd and Nikita Matsunaga at American Chemical Society National Meeting (2005) San Diego, California.


    • Graduate Student Supervised:

  • William C. Howard, M.S. Chemistry (May, 2001) Thesis Title: Harmonic and Anharmonic Molecular Vibrations of Simple Molecules: A Prelude to Molecular Vibrations in Large Biological Molecules.

  • Sean Nedd, M.S. Chemistry (Dec., 2007) Thesis Title: Implementation of G3(MP2,CCSD) Method and Drug Transporting Lipids


    • Publications:

    Review Articles

    1. "Nanoelectronics with Single Molecules", Karl Sohlberg and Nikita Matsunaga, in Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, H. S. Nalwa Ed., 6 (2004) 665-682

    2. "Modeling of Spin-Forbidden Reactions", Nikita Matsunaga and Shiro Koseki, in Reviews in Computational Chemistry, K. B. Lipkowitz, R. Larter, and T. R. Cundari, Eds., 20 (2004) 101-152

    Regular Peer Reviewed Articles

    1. "On the Helium Pair Potential", J. A. Montgomery Jr., G. A. Petersson and N. Matsunaga, Chemical Physics Letters, 155 (1989) 413-418

    2. "A Comparative Study of the Bonding in Heteroatom Analogues of Benzene", Nikita Matsunaga, Thomas R. Cundari, Michael W. Schmidt and Mark S. Gordon, the special issue of Theoretica Chemica Acta dedicated to Klaus Ruedenberg, Theoretica Chemica Acta, 83 (1992) 57-68

    3. "General Atomic and Molecular Electronic Structure System", M. W. Schmidt, K. K. Baldridge, J. A. Boatz, S. T. Elbert, M. S. Gordon, J. H. Jensen, S. Koseki, N. Matsunaga, K. A. Nugyen, S. Su, T. L. Windus, M. Dupuis, and J. A. Montgomery, J. Computational Chemistry 14 (1993) 1347-1363

    4. "Stabilities and Energetics of Inorganic Benzene Isomers: Prismanes", Nikita Matsunaga and Mark S. Gordon, J. American Chemical Society, 116 (1994) 11407-11419

    5. "Applications of Parallel GAMESS", Kim K. Baldridge, Mark S. Gordon, Jan H. Jensen, Nikita Matsunaga, Michael W. Schmidt, Theresa L. Windus, Jerry A. Boatz, and Thomas R. Cundari, ACS Symposium Series No. 592 , Parallel Computing in Chemistry , T. G. Mattson Ed., 1995, p. 29-46.

    6. "Main Group Effective Charges for Spin-Orbit Calculations", Shiro Koseki, Mark S. Gordon, Mike W. Schmidt and Nikita Matsunaga, J. Phys. Chem. 99 (1995) 12764-12772.

    7. "A Theoretical Study of NH4- and PH4-", Nikita Matsunaga and Mark S. Gordon, J. Phys. Chem. 99 (1995) 12773-12780.

    8. "Elimination and Activation of Methane and Larger Hydrocarbons", Thomas R. Cundari, Nikita Matsunaga, and Eddie W. Moody, J. Physical Chemistry 100 (1996) 6475-6483

    9. "Effects of Conjugation and Aromaticity on the Strength of the Sulfoxide Bond", William S. Jenks, Nikita Matsunaga and Mark S. Gordon, J. Organic Chemistry 61 (1996) 1275-1283

    10. "Relativistic Potential Energy Surfaces of XH2 (X=C, Si, Ge, Sn and Pb) Molecules: Coupling of 1A1 and 3B1 States", Nikita Matsunaga, Shiro Koseki and Mark S. Gordon, J. Chemical Physics 104 (1996) 7988-7996

    11. "Structures of Some Substituted Nitrophenols Determined by Ab Initio Computation: On the Origin of Heterocliticity in Anti- Nitrophenol Antibodies", Christian S. Parry, Bernard R. Brooks, Nikita Matsunaga and L. Mario Amzel, J. Molec. Structure (THEOCHEM), 398-399 (1997) 555-563

    12. "Energies and Derivative Couplings in the Vicinity of a Conical Intersection. II CH2(23A'', 33A'') and H2S(11A'', 21A''), Unexpected Results in an Ostensibly Standard Case", Nikita Matsunaga and David R. Yarkony, J. Chemical Physics, 107 (1997) 7825-7838

    13. "Energies and Derivative Couplings in the Vicinity of a Conical Intersection 3. The 'Most' Diabatic Basis", Nikita Matsunaga and David R. Yarkony, Molecular Physics, 93 (1998) 79-84

    14. "Deoxygenation of (silox)3WNO and R3PO by (silox)3M (M = V, Ta) and (silox)3NbL (silox = t Bu3SiO): Consequences of Electronic Effects", Adam S. Veige, Lee M. Slaughter, Peter T. Wolczanski, Nikita Matsunaga, Stephen Decker, and Thomas R. Cundari, Journal of American Chemical Society, 123 (2001) 6419-6420.

    15. "The Substituent Effect on Non-linear I/V Characteristics in a Two-Terminal Molecular Electronic Device", Nikita Matsunaga and Karl Sohlberg, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 1 (2001) 275-279.

    16. "Degenerate Perturbation Theory Corrections for the Vibrational Self-Consistent Field Approximation: Method and Applications" Nikita Matsunaga, Galina M. Chaban, and R. Benny Gerber, Journal of Chemical Physics, 117 (2002) 3541-3547.

    17. "The Effect of Substituents on Molecular Electronic Junctions", Nikita Matsunaga and Karl Sohlberg, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 2 (2002) 659-667.

    18. "Pauling's Electronegativity Equation, its Accuracy, Current Usefulness and a New Corollary. Bond Dissociation Energies and the Nature of Chemical Bonding", Nikita Matsunaga, Donald W. Rogers, and Andreas Zavitsas, Journal of Organic Chemistry, 68 (2003) 3158-3172.

    19. "The Conjugation Stabilization of 1,3-Butadiyne is Zero", Donald W. Rogers, Nikita Matsunaga, Andreas A. Zavitsas, Frank J. McLafferty, and Joel F. Liebman, Organic Letters, 5 (2003) 2373-2375.

    20. "Symmetry and Geometry Considerations of Atom Transfer: Deoxygenation of (silox)3WNO and R3PO (R = Me, Ph, tBu) by (silox)3M (M = V, NbL (L = PMe3, 4-picoline), Ta; silox = tBu3SiO)", Adam S. Veige, Lee M. Slaughter, Emil B. Lobkovsky, Peter T. Wolczanski, Nikita Matsunaga, Stephen A. Decker, and Thomas R. Cundari, Inorganic Chem., 42 (2003) 6204-6224.

    21. "Correlating substituent parameter values to electron transport properties of molecules", Natalie Vedova-Brook, Nikita Matsunaga, and Karl Sohlberg, Chem. Phys., 299 (2004) 89-95.

    22. "On the potential energy curve of the ground state of the sodium dimer, X1Σg+ Na2. Comparison of spectroscopic potentials and an a priori analytical function.", Nikita Matsunaga and Andreas A. Zavitsas, J. Chem. Phys., 120 (2004) 5624-5630.

    23. "On the lack of conjugation stabilization in polyynes (polyacetylenes)", D. W. Rogers, N. Matsunaga, F. J. McLafferty, A. A. Zavitsas AA, J. F. Liebman, J. Org. Phys., 69 (2004) 7143-7147.

    24. "G3(MP2) Enthalpies of Hydrogenation, Isomerization, and Formation of Extended Linear Polyacetylenes", D. W. Rogers, A. A. Zavitsas, and N. Matsunaga, J. Phys. Chem. A. 109 (2005) 9169-9173.

    25. "Stabilization energies of extensively conjugated propargylic radicals", D. W. Rogers, N. Matsunaga, and A. A. Zavitsas, J. Org. Chem. 71 (2006) 2214-2219.

    26. "Generation of oxynitrenes and confirmation of their triplet ground states", Walter A. Wasylenko, Naod Kebede, Brett M. Showalter, Nikita Matsunaga, Alexander P. Miceli, Yonglin Liu, Lev R. Ryzhkov, Christopher M. Hadad, and John P. Toscano, J. Amer. Chem. Soc., 128 (2006) 13142-13150.

    27. "Molecular conduction characteristics from the intrinsic molecular properties", Nikita Matsunaga, J. Comput. Theor. Nanosci., 3 (2006) 957-963.

    28. "Effect of spacer attachment sites and pH-sensitive headgroup expansion on cationic lipid-mediated gene delivery of three novel myristoyl derivatives", Michael Spelios, Sean Nedd, Nikita Matsunaga, Michalakis Savva, Biophys. Chem., 129 (2007) 137-147.

    29. "Remote Substituent Effects on Allylic and Benzylic Bond Dissociation Energies. Effects on Stabilization of Parent Molecules and Radicals" Andreas A. Zavitsas, Donald W. Rogers, and Nikita Matsunaga, J. Org. Chem., 72 (2007) 7091-7101.

    30. "Accurate ab-initio potential energy curve of F2. II. Fully correlated and relativistically augmented energies.", L. Bytautas, N. Matsunaga, T. Nagata, M. S. Gordon, and K. Ruedenberg, J. Chem. Phys., 127 (2007) 204301.

    31. "Accurate ab-initio potential energy curve of F2. III. The vibration rotation spectrum.", L. Bytautas, N. Matsunaga, T. Nagata, M. S. Gordon, and K. Ruedenberg, J. Chem. Phys., 127 (2007) 204313.


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