Welcome

 

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

July 2, 2025
It was great for the current group to gather with Alums Profs. Caroline Dessent (University of York), Nathan Hammer (Ole Miss), Paul Campagnola (University of Wisconsin), and...
May 1, 2025
…And nice to see the Grotthus (or not) work is appreciated by our colleagues. 
April 28, 2025
… And yes, the 4BBA paper IS going to get written!!

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