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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.

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Happy Halloween 2019!

October 28, 2019

Anton, Sayoni and Fabian dressed up as grim reapers of various grad school dreads, Thien and Santino played Dustin and Jonathan from the TV series Stranger Things and Helen...

Joanna's Thesis Defense

October 7, 2019

Joanna presented an excellent thesis defense talk titled “Metal Binding and Microhydration of Gas-phase Carboxylates Analyzed by Vibrational Spectroscopy”. She has accepted a...

Winery Trip 2019

September 20, 2019

The group enjoyed a wonderful evening (and lots of sandwiches) at Paradise Hills Winery yesterday!

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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 Ni^I 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, 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