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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

Liv and Tim's Supplementary Cover Selected for JPCL

February 29, 2024
Following an “as is” publication in JPCL, the JLab crew was chosen for a supplementary cover as pictured. Captioned: “It was the kind of ultracold night where buffer gas ice...

Congratulations to Thien and Adam!

December 11, 2023
The JLab crew reunited for Thien and Adam’s beautiful wedding! Great to see the crew all dressed up

Dr. Micheal DeLuca (a.k.a. The Tinman) visits us to check out what has become of his “Navy Machine” thirty five years later!!

October 31, 2023
Dr. Micheal DeLuca (a.k.a. The Tinman) visits us to check out what has become of his “Navy Machine” thirty five years later!! The iPhone used to take this shot says it is “A...
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Selected Publications:

Deconstructing Water’s Diffuse OH Stretching Vibrational Spectrum with Cold Clusters
Science, Vol. 364, (6437), (2019) pp. 275-278, DOI Link: 10.1126/science.aaw4086

Spectroscopic Snapshots of the Proton-transfer Mechanism in Water
Science, Vol. 354, (6316), (2016) pp. 1131-1135, DOI Link: 10.1126/science.aaf8425

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
Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., Vol. 55, (4), (2016) pp. 1282-1285, DOI Link: 10.1002/anie.201507965

Vibrational spectral signature of the proton defect in the three-dimensional H+(H2O)21 cluster
Science, Vol. 344, (6187), (2014) pp. 1009-1012, DOI Link: 10.1126/science.1253788

Modes of Activation of Organometallic Iridium Complexes for Catalytic Water and C-H Oxidation
Inorg. Chem., Vol. 53, (1), (2014) pp. 423-433, DOI Link: 10.1021/ic402390t