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About Our Group:

We design, build and exploit new types of instruments that provide qualitatively new pictures of how chemical reactions occur. By coupling mass-selective vibrational spectroscopy with cryogenic ion processing, we are able to study a wide variety of chemical phenomena, including small molecule activation, gas-liquid interfacial chemistry, and intracluster hydrogen bonding.

News

January 23, 2025
Group alum Helen Zeng dropped by on Mark’s seminar trip to Berkeley. She is working on electrochemical processing of CO2 at LBL. Mass specs still play a role, however! Way to...
December 13, 2024
We’re excited to announce that Liv has accepted a post doctoral position working in the FT-ICR facility of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. Congrats to Liv...
December 2, 2024
Congratulations to Tim Schleif, who has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Hofstra University! Tim was a very effective Preceptor in Yale...

Selected Publications:

Deconstructing Water’s Diffuse OH Stretching Vibrational Spectrum with Cold Clusters


Spectroscopic Snapshots of the Proton-transfer Mechanism in Water


Capture of CO2 by a Cationic NiI Complex in the Gas Phase and Characterization of the Bound Activated CO2 Molecule through Cryogenic Ion Vibrational Predissociation Spectroscopy


Vibrational spectral signature of the proton defect in the three-dimensional H+(H2O)21 cluster


Modes of Activation of Organometallic Iridium Complexes for Catalytic Water and C-H Oxidation