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Professional Activities  

Publications 13. "Synthesis and Characterizations of Cyclometallated Iridium (III) Solvento Complexes"; Bruno Schmid, Fred O. Garces, R.J. Watts, Inorganic Chemistry, 1994, 33:1 9-14. 12. "Interpolymer Complexation of Poly(Acrylic Acid) and Poly(Acrylamide): Structural and Dynamic Studies by Solution and Solid-State NMR"; F.O. Garces, K. Sivadasan, P. Somasundaran, N.J. Turro, Macromolecules, 1994, 27:1 272-278. 11. "Structures of Ortho-Metalated [2-(p-Tolyl)pyridine] Iridium (III) Complexes"; F.O. Garces, K. Dedeian, N.L. Keder, R.J. Watts, Acta Cryst(C), 1993, C41 1117-1120. 10. "1H and 13C NMR Assignments with Coordination-Induced Shift Calculations of Carbon s-Bonded Ortho-Metalated Rhodium (III) and Iridium (III) Complexes"; Fred.O.Garces, Richard.J Watts, Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry, 1993, 31 529-536. 9. "Langmuir-Blodgett Films of Tris(2-phenylpyridine) Iridium (III)"; H.A.Samha, T.J.Martinez, M.K.DeArmond, F.O.Garces, and R.J.Watts, Inorganic Chemistry, 1993,32:11 2583-2586. 8. "H-1, C-13, F-19 NMR Assignments of 3,3'- Difluoro-5a-Androstane-17?-ol Acetate"; Delphine Davis, Fred Garces,  Steroids, 1992, 57:11 563-568. 7. "A Comparison of 1H - 13C  Cross Polarization and Magic Angle Spinning Dynamics of the a-, ß- and g-cyclodextrin Inclusion Complexes of Benzaldehyde"; Fred.O.Garces, V.Pushkara Rao, M.A.Garcia-Garibay, Nicholas.J.Turro, Supramolecular Chemistry, 1992, 1 65-72. 6. "A New Synthetic Route to the Preparation of a Series of Strong Photoreducing Agents: fac Tris-Ortho-Metalated Complexes of Iridium (III) with Substituted 2-Phenylpyridines."; K. Dedeian, P. Djurovich, F. Garces, G. Carlson, R.J. Watts, Inorganic Chemistry, 1991,30 1685. 5. "A New Ortho-Metalated Dichloro-Bridged Dimer Complex of Iridium (III) with 2,2'-bipyridine: [Ir(bpy-C3,N')(bpy-N,N')Cl]2Cl2";  Fred O. Garces, Richard J. Watts, Inorganic Chemistry, 1990, 29 582. 4. "Luminescence Properties of Two New Pt(II) 2-phenylpyridine Complexes; The Influence of Metal-Carbon Bonds"; C.A. Craig, F.O. Garces, R.J. Watts, R. Palmans, and A.J. Franks, Coord. Chem. Rev., 1990, 97 193. 3. "Synthesis, Structure, Electrochemistry and Photophysics of Methyl-Substituted Phenylpyridine Ortho-metalated Ir(III) Complexes"; F.O.Garces, K.A.King, R.J.Watts, Inorg. Chem. 1988, 27 3464. 2. "Synthesis and Photophysical Studies of Ortho-Metalated Pd(II) Complexes Including Two Novel Pd(II)/Rh(III) Dimers"; C.A. Craig, F.O. Garces, R.J. Watts; p.135, Ibid. 1. "Photoproperties of Ortho-metalated Ir (III) and Rh (III) Complexes";  K.A. King, F. O. Garces, R. J. Watts; Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on the Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds; H. Yersin and A. Volger, Ed., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, p.141, 1987.

Contributed Papers     27.  "From Library Resource Binder to World-WideWeb Pabe",  Fred.O. Garces, The 2000 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, Honolulu, Hawaii , December 14-19, 2000.  26. "Stereochemical analysis of the Diels-Alder Adducts of Tetraphenylcyclopentadienone and Cyclopentene by Two-Dimensional  NMR", P. Traylor, M.A. Welp, F.O. Garces, 210th ACS National Meeting, Chicago, Ill., August 21, 1995.  25. "NMR Techniques toward the Structure Elucidation of Iridium Polypyridyl Complexes", D. Huynh, J.M. Egaran, F. O. Garces, 4th Annual Student Research and Internship Conference., USD, April, 23, 1994. 24. "Structural Investigation of Ortho-metalated Iridium(III) Solvento Complexes by Two Dimensional NMR Techniques", D. Huynh, J.M. Egaran, B. Schmid, RJ. Watts, F.O.Garces, 207th ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA., March 14, 1994. 23. "Sterically Hindered Ligands, V.DeTuri , M.A.Welp, P.S.Traylor, F.O.Garces, 207th ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA., March 14, 1994. 22. "Solid State NMR Spectroscopy of Adsorbed Organics in Zeolites", F.O.Garces, R.Leheny, N.Han, Z.Zhang, N.J.Turro, 1989 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 17-22, 1989. 21. "New Ortho-Metalated Complexes of 2,2'-Bipyridine with Ir(III)"; F.O.Garces, R.J.Watts, 1988 Pacific Conference on Chemistry and Spectroscopy, San Francisco, CA., October 26-28 1988. 20. "Assignments of the Proton, Carbon and Fluorine NMR Spectra of 3,3'- Difluoro-5a-Androstane-17?-ol Acetate by Homo- and Heteronuclear Correlation Spectroscopy"; D.Davis, F.Garces, R.J.Watts, J.T.Gerig, 196th ACS National Meeting, Los Angeles, CA., September 25-30 1988.  19. "X-Ray Crystal Structure of Dichloro-bridged Ortho-metalated Phenylpyridine Rh (III) and Ir (III) complexes."; F.O.Garces, N.L. Keder, G.Stucky, R.J.Watts, 196th ACS National Meeting, L.A., CA., September 25-30 1988. 18. "Structural and Photophysical Investigation of [Ir(bpy-N,N')(bpy-C3,N')Cl]22+: A Dichloro-bridged Ortho metalated Dimer"; F.O.Garces, P.J. Spellane, R.J.Watts, XII IUPAC Symposium on Photochemistry, Bologna, Italy, July 17, 22, 1988. 17. "Temperature and Solvent Dependence of Absorption and Emission of Ortho-metalated Complexes of Ir(III)"; A.P.Wilde, K.A. King, C. Miller, F.O. Garces, R.J. Watts, XII IUPAC Symposium on Photo-chemistry, Bologna, Italy, July 17, 22, 1988. 16. "Photophysics of Ortho-metalated Palladium(II) and Rhodium(III) Complexes, C.A.Craig, F.O.Garces, R.J. Watts, 195th ACS National Conference, Toronto, Canada, June 5-10, 1988. 15. "1H and 13C NMR Analysis of [Ir(bpy-C3,N')(bpy-N,N')Cl]22+: Evidence for an Ortho-Metalated Dimer Structure"; F.O.Garces, P.J.Spellane, R.J.Watts, 195th ACS National Conference., Toronto, Canada, June 5-10, 1988. 14. "Structural and Photophysical Studies of Metal-Carbon Sigma-Bonded Species: New Ortho-Metalated Complexes of 2,2'-Bipyridine";  R.J. Watts, F.O. Garces, A.P.Wilde, C. Miller, twelfth DOE Solar Photochemistry Research Conference,  Washington D.C., May 23, 1988. 13. "Ground and Excited State Properties of Cyclo-Metalated Ir (III) Complexes: A Potential Photocatalyst"; Fred O. Garces, R.J. Watts, Southwestern Regional ACS Conference., Las Vegas, NV., March 9, 1988. 12. "Photophysical Properties of Ortho-metalated Complexes of Palladium (II)"; C.A.Craig, F.O.Garces, R. J. Watts,  Southwestern Regional ACS conference, Las Vegas, NV., March 9, 1988.  11. "Proton, Carbon, and Fluorine NMR Assignments of 3,3'- Difluoro-5a-Androstane-17?-ol Acetate by Homo- and Heteronuclear Correlation Spectroscopy' "; Delphine Davis, Fred Garces, R.J. Watts, J.T. Gerig, NMR Dedication Ceremony, Santa Barbara, CA., January 7, 1988. 10. "Analysis of the 1H and 13C NMR spectra of [Ir(bpy-C3,N')(bpy-N,N')Cl]22+: Evidence for a Carbon Bonded Structure"; F.O.Garces, P.J.Spellane, R.J.Watts, NMR Dedication Ceremony, UCSB, CA., Jan.7, 1988. 9. "Excited State Characterization of Chemically-Modified Ortho-metallating Complexes"; Fred O. Garces, Mae Libunao, M.Torres, S.Tellechea, and R.J.Watts, SACNAS Conference., El-Paso, TX, Oct. 29-31, 1987. 8. "Photophysical Investigation of Palladium (II) Ortho-Metalates"; Carl A. Craig, Fred O. Garces, Richard J. Watts, Pacific Conference on Chemistry and Spectroscopy, Irvine, CA., October 28-30, 1987. 7. "Characterization of Methyl-Substituted Ir(III) Ortho-Metalated Complexes"; F.O. Garces; A scholarly paper submitted to the Dean's Prize Competition; UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA  March 1987. 6. "Energy Transformation in Organometallic Complexes"; K.A.King, F.O.Garces, C.Craig, A.Wilde, K.Ichimura, T. Kobayashi, and R.J.Watts, Eleventh DOE Solar Photochemistry Research Conference,  Lake Tahoe, California, June 8-11, 1987. 5. "Energy Transfer in Excited States of Ortho-metalated  Ir(III) and Rh(III) Complexes";  K.A. King, F. Garces, S. Sprouse, R.J. Watts; 193rd ACS National Conference, Denver, Colorado, April 5-10, 1987. 4. "Structural Characterization and Photophysical Properties of  Methyl-Substituted Phenylpyridine Iridium (III) Complexes";  F.O. Garces, K.A. King, C.A. Craig, P.J. Spellane, R.J. Watts; 193rd ACS National Conference, Denver, Colorado, April 5-10, 1987. 3. "Photophysical Properties of Ortho-metalated Pd(II) and Pd(II) / Rh(III) Complexes"; C.A. Craig, F. O. Garces, R.J. Watts; 193rd ACS National Conference, Denver, Colorado, April 5-10, 1987. 2. "Synthesis and Photophysical Studies of Ortho-metalated Pd(II) Complexes Including Two Novel Pd(II) / Rh(III) Dimers" C.A.Craig, F.O.Garces and R.J.Watts, Seventh International Symposium on the Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds, Elmau, FRG, March 29 - April 2, 1987. 1. "Photoproperties of Ortho-metalated Ir(III) and Rh(III) Complexes"  K.A.King, F.O.Garces, S.Sprouse, and R.J.Watts, Seventh International Symposium on the Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds, Elmau, FRG, March 29-April 2, 1987.

Invited Seminars 28. 9/05 "Evolution of Miramar College's Online Allied Health Chemistry Course" Fred.O. Garces, 232 National ACS Meeting, Distance Learning and the Chemisry Laboratory, San Francisco, Sept. 14, 2005   15.  4/01  "From Digital Resource Binder to Online Course"  Fred.O. Garces, 155th Two Year College Chemistry (2YC3), SDCCD, San Diego, March 30-31, 2001.  14.  3/01  "Converting Documents to Web-Friendly Pages"  Fred.O. Garces, 221 National ACS Meeting, Web-Assisted Learning, Nuts and Bolts, San Diego,April 01-05, 2001.  13.  5/95 "NMR Structural Characterization of Ortho-metalated Iridium complexes", Instituto Technologico de Tijuana Tijuana, Mexico. 12.  3/95 "Probing Chemical Structures with NMR Spectroscopy"; San Diego State University, SD, CA 11.  3/94  "Nuclear Magnetic Spectroscopy at the University of San Diego"; University of San Diego, SD, CA 10.  4/93  "Answering Chemical Questions with NMR Spectroscopy"; University of San Diego, San Diego, CA 9.  3/93  "Applications of NMR spectroscopy to Organometallic Complexes"; San Francisco State Univ.; SF, CA 8.  4/92  "Iridium(III) Orthometalated Complexes; Photophysical Characterization and investigation for use in Storage of Solar Energy"; Lebanon Valley College, PA 7.  9/90  "Photogeneration of Strong One and Two Electron Redox Agents from Transition Metal d6 Iridium Complexes"; SCIP Conference, UCLA-Rancho Palos Verdes, California. 6.  7/88  "[Ir(bpy-C3,N')(bpy-N,N')Cl]2Cl2, the First Dichloro-bridged Dimer of a Bipyridine Complex of Ir(III)"; SCIP Conference, UCSB-Lake Cachuma, California. 5.  10/87  "Structural Studies of Methyl Substituted Phenylpyridine Ir(III) Complexes"; Pacific Conference on Chemistry and Spectroscopy, Irvine, California. 4.  7/87  "Structural and Photophysical Properties of Methyl-Substituted Phenylpyridine Ortho-Metallating Ir(III)  Complexes";  Southern California Inorganic Photochemical Conference, Caltech-Capra Ranch, California. 3.  4/87  "The Role of Ortho-metallating Complexes in the Photoreduction of Carbon Dioxide";  Graduate Research Mentorship Program Conference, University of California, Santa Barbara, California. 2.  6/86 "Methyl-Substituted Phenylpyridine Ir(III) Complexes: A Better Photoreducing Agent";  Southern California Inorganic Photochemistry (SCIP) Conference, UCLA-Lake Arrowhead, CA. 1.  6/85  "Preliminary Results on the Characterization of Substituted Phenylpyridine Dichloro-bridge Iridium (III) Dimers";  Southern California Photochemistry Conference, USC-Catalina, California.

Intramural Grants / Workplans 9.  5/02 $2,000 "Chemistry Lab Online; a.k.a. Kitchen Chemistry"  F.O. Garces; California Virtual Campus, Developing a Model Online Course, Southern California Regional Center for the California Virtual Campus, Coastline College 8.  9/01 $5,000 "Chem-100 Lab; Developing an Online Lab Course"  F.O. Garces, Technology Innovation Grant (TIG), San Diego, Community College; Miramar College, San Diego, CA 7.  9/00 $5,000 "Chem-100, Developing an Online Lecture Course"  F.O. Garces, Emerging Technology Innovation Grant (ETIG), San Diego, Community College; Miramar College, San Diego, CA 6  9/99 $2,500 "Chemistry-100 Web Page Design, Converting Lecture Notes to a Digital Library"  F.O. Garces, Emerging Technology Innovation Grant (ETIG), San Diego, Community College; Miramar College, San Diego, CA 5.  9/98 $15.K " UV-Visible Spectrophtometer Varian Chem Station ",  F.O. Garces, Workplan proposal submitted to the Miramar College Planning and Budget Committee; Miramar College, San Diego, CA 4.  1/94 $1,000 "Optimization of NMR Programs and the Study of Metal Compounds Interaction with Biopolymers", F.O. Garces; Irvine Summer Grant Program, USD, San Diego, CA 3.  12/93 $500 "Video production for the operation of the Varian Unity-300 FT-NMR Spectrometer", F.O. Garces; Faculty Research Mini-grants, USD, San Diego, CA 2.  5/88 $2500 "The Synthesis of Modified Ortho-metalated Ir(III) Complexes: A Potentially better Photocatalyst"; F.O.Garces; Summer Academic Research Internship Program (SARI), UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA 1.  1/87 $2500 "Ortho-metalating Ir(III) Complexes as a Photocatalyst in the Photoreduction of CO2"; F.O. Garces; Graduate Research Mentorship Program, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA