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Theoretical Analysis of Group 15 Periodic Trends in the Highly Strained PnC3H3 Molecule

The synthesis of highly strained molecules has garnered significant interest from the chemical community over the last few decades. The tetrahedral isomer of the C4H4 molecule (tetrahedrane) is a prototypical example of a strained molecule and remains elusive to experimental chemists despite its predicted theoretical kinetic stability[1]. Earlier this year Cummins and coworkers published a groundbreaking study in which they successfully isolated…


Nanocars: Transit for Nanoscale Construction

Controlled placement of molecules is a necessary step for the future of nanoscale synthetic methods. Although layer deposition methods provide a bottom-up process for the construction of microscopic structures, the lack of precision limits the minimum size of these designs. Nanocars, molecular machines designed for movement across solid-phase surfaces, offer a means of transporting molecules across a deposited substrate.1,2 The controlled…


Austen Scruggs - Research Seminar


Mitchell Lahm - Literature Seminar


Femtosecond Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy: A Broad Range of Possibilities


TBA - Jason Colley


Going Where Few Dare To: Investigating the Reactivity and Structure of Uranium Species Using Ion Trap Mass Spectrometry

Electrospray ionization and ion-trapping methods of mass spectrometry have significantly improved our ability to study gas-phase ion chemistry, and to determine the intrinsic structure and reactivity of metal ions and metal ion complexes. Ion traps with multi-dimensional (MSn) tandem mass spectrometry capabilities are versatile gas-phase "laboratories" within which ions can be manipulated and studied. Ion traps can also function as “sample…


Sarah Elliott - Literature Seminar


Magnetic field effects on radical pair reactions – from bird navigation to chemical compasses and novel spectroscopic tools

Weak magnetic fields (< 30 mT) can have a profound influence on radical pair reactions. This is, at first sight, puzzling since the magnetic interactions are typically much smaller than the thermal energy at room temperature. The radical pair is created in a highly non-equilibrium state, however, displaying significant mixing between its singlet and triplet spin states. The mixing rate is altered if a magnetic field is present via the Zeeman…


Probing Aerosol Proxy Surfaces Using Sum-Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy

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