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

August 23, 2024
Congratulations to Payten for being awarded the Tully Fellowship in recognition of creation of new research capabilities to understand the molecular-level behaviors of...
August 13, 2024
Liv and Abhi, joined by Jlab alum Thien, celebrated another great conference over a lobster dinner at the MID GRC 2024. 
August 13, 2024
The Jlab reunited once again at the Vibrational Spectroscopy GRC! Joe, Sean, Etienne, Erica, and Payten caught up (and talked lots of science!) with longtime Jlab theory...

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