Contact Information
Darwin Hall 313
(707) 664-3084
works@sonoma.edu 
Teaching Responsibilities
- CHEM 115A, 115B: General Chemistry
- CHEM 125A, 125B: Honors Analytical General Chemistry
- CHEM 325: Inorganic Chemistry
- CHEM 401: Instrumental Analysis and Chemical Synthesis I
- CHEM 402: Instrumental Analysis and Chemical Synthesis II
Selected Publications:
- Photochemical Studies of Iron-Only Hydrogenase Model Compounds. Jessie Brown-McDonald, Marci Peralto, Seth Berg and Carmen Works. Inorganica Chimica Acta. Accepted 2008
- Isolation of a Novel Chromium(III) Binding Protein from Bovine Liver Tissue After Chromium(VI) Exposure. Ryan L. Peterson, Kelly J. Banker, Thelma Y. Garcia, and Carmen F. Works. Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry 2008, 102(4), 833-841
- Synthesis, Purification and Characterization of a μ-(1,3-propanedithiolato)-hexacarbonyldiiron: Laboratory Experiment or Mini-Project for Inorganic Chemistry or Integrated Laboratory. Works, C.F. J. Chem. Ed. 2007, 84(5), 836-838
- Purification of a chromate reductase from a pseudomonad. Skarra, D.V. and Works, C. Preprints of Extended Abstracts, American Chemical Society, Division of Environmental Chemistry 2005, 45(1), 461-466. Presented at the ACS National Meeting in San Diego
- Photochemical Nitric Oxide Precursors: Synthesis, Photochemistry, and Ligand Substitution Kinetics of Ruthenium Salen Nitrosyl and Ruthenium Salophen Nitrosyl Complexes Works, C. F.; Jocher, C. J.; Bart, G. D.; Bu, X.; Ford, P. C. Inorg. Chem. 2002, 41(14), 3728-3739
- Reactions of Nitrogen Oxides with Heme Models. Characterization of NO and NO2 Dissociation from Fe(TPP)(NO2)(NO) by Flash Photolysis and Rapid Dilution Techniques: Fe(TPP)(NO2) as an Unstable Intermediate. Lim, M.D.; Lorkovic, I.M; Wedeking, K; Zanella, A.A.; Works, C.F.; Massick, S.M.; Ford, P.C. J. Am. Chem. Soc 2002, 124(33), 9737-9743
- Photoreactivity of the Ruthenium Nitrosyl Complex, Ru(salen)(Cl)(NO). Solvent Effects on the Back Reaction of NO with the Lewis Acid Ru(III)(salen)(Cl) Works, C. F. and C. Ford, P.C. J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2000), 122(31), 7592-7593