Dunbar is a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Texas A&M.
Research
Dunbar has led research in the areas of redox-active molecules and inorganic/organic materials with photochemical, magnetic, and conducting properties. As part of reMIND, she designs new transition metal compounds and self-assembled materials with rich redox activity for their applications as neurons and synapses.
Publications
- Reactivity Studies of 2,3,5,6-Tetra(2-pyridyl) pyrazine (tppz) with First-Row Transition Metal Ions. Cristian S. Campos-Fernandez, Bradley W. Smucker, Rodolphe Clerac, and Kim R. Dunbar. Israel J. Chem., 2001, 2017-218. doi: 10.1560/YWHR-R8BE-2PLF-7FNN
- Highly Conducting Coordination Polymers Based on Infinite M(4,4′-bpy) Chains Flanked by Regular Stacks of Non-Integer TCNQ Radicals. Akira Ota, Maria Ballesteros Rivas, Eric Reinheimer, Andrey Prosvirin, Kim R. Dunbar, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2011, 123, 9877-9881. doi: 10.1002/anie.201101658
- Putting a New Spin on Supramolecular Metallacycles: Co3 Triangle and Co4 Square Bearing Tetrazine-Based Radicals as Bridges Dimitrious I. Alexandropoulos, Brian S. Dolinar, Kuduva R. Vignesh and Kim R. Dunbar, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2017, 139, 11040-11043. doi: 10.1021/jacs.7b06925
- Strong Ferromagnetic Exchange Coupling Mediated by a Tetrazine Radical in a Dinuclear Nickel Complex. Toby J. Woods, Heather D. Stout, Brian S. Dolinar, Kuduva R. Vignesh, Maria F. Ballesteros-Rivas, Catalina Achim, and Kim R. Dunbar, Inorg. Chem., 2017, 20, 12094–12097. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b01812
- Strong Coupling and Slow Relaxation of the Magnetization for an Air Stable [Co4] Square With Both Tetrazine Radicals and Azido Bridges. Zhilin Guo,Yi-Fei Deng, Zoe Pikramenou, Yuan-Zhu Zhang, and Kim R Dunbar, Chem. Commun., 2021, 60, 3651-3656. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c03158