Jeffrey Robert Long is a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley known for his work in metal−organic frameworks and molecular magnetism.
While an undergraduate student, he worked alongside Prof. Roald Hoffmann on the application of molecular orbital theory in determining solid-state band structure of metal carbides.
[5] After continuing with Richard Holm as a postdoctoral fellow, in 1996 he then went on to do post-doctoral studies with Prof. Paul Alivisatos at the University of California, Berkeley.
Long began his independent career at the University of California, Berkeley in 1997, where he expanded his work to include studies on Prussian blue analogs and metal cyanide coordination clusters with an emphasis on their magnetic properties.
[6] He has contributed significantly to the field of molecular magnetism, most notably in the synthesis and characterization of a linear cobalt(II) complex exhibiting a non-Aufbau ground state,[7] the characterization of radical-bridged lanthanide single-molecule magnets (SMMs),[8] and the isolation of atomically defined 2-D metal-halide sheets within a porous material.