selected publications journal article Unimolecular thermal decomposition of dimethoxybenzenes. Journal of Chemical Physics. 2014 Polarized Matrix Infrared Spectra of Cyclopentadienone: Observations, Calculations, and Assignment for an Important Intermediate in Combustion and Biomass Pyrolysis. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A: Isolated Molecules, Clusters, Radicals, and Ions; Environmental Chemistry, Geochemistry, and Astrochemistry; Theory. 708-718. 2014 Chirped-pulse millimeter-wave spectroscopy for dynamics and kinetics studies of pyrolysis reactions. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 15739-15751. 2014 Pyrolysis of furan in a microreactor. Journal of Chemical Physics. 2013 Biomass pyrolysis: Thermal decomposition mechanisms of furfural and benzaldehyde. Journal of Chemical Physics. 2013 Characterization of a microtubular reactor for studying biomass pyrolysis. ACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts. 2013 Acetic acid formation via the hydration of gas-phase ketene under ambient conditions. Chemical Physics Letters. 1-4. 2013 Substituent Effects on O-H Bond Dissociation Enthalpies: A Computational Study. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A: Isolated Molecules, Clusters, Radicals, and Ions; Environmental Chemistry, Geochemistry, and Astrochemistry; Theory. 213-218. 2013 Use of a flowing afterglow SIFT apparatus to study the reactions of ions with organic radicals. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A: Isolated Molecules, Clusters, Radicals, and Ions; Environmental Chemistry, Geochemistry, and Astrochemistry; Theory. 9733-9741. 2004 Unimolecular rearrangement of trans-FONO to FNO2.: A possible model system for atmospheric nitrate formation. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A: Isolated Molecules, Clusters, Radicals, and Ions; Environmental Chemistry, Geochemistry, and Astrochemistry; Theory. 7639-7642. 2004 Organonitrate formation in the atmosphere: A unimolecular mechanism for pernitrite isomerization, ROONO -> RONO2 (AEI).. ACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts. U203-U204. 2004 Gas-phase reactions of organic radicals and diradicals with ions. Journal of Chemical Physics. 3531-3534. 2004 Experimental measurement of bond dissociation energies of organic molecules.. ACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts. U104-U105. 2003 Intense, hyperthermal source of organic radicals for matrix-isolation spectroscopy. Review of Scientific Instruments. 3077-3086. 2003 Bond dissociation energies of organic molecules. Accounts of Chemical Research. 255-263. 2003 Enhancement of 1,2-dehydration of alcohols by alkali cations and protons: a model for dehydration of carbohydrates. Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis. 3-27. 2003 Fragmentations of deprotonated alkyl hydroperoxides (ROO-) upon collisional activation: A combined experimental and computational study. Australian Journal of Chemistry: an international journal for chemical science. 459-472. 2003 PHOTOELECTRON-SPECTROSCOPY OF SO2-, S-3-, AND S2O-. The Journal of physical chemistry. 2574-2580. 1986 PHOTOELECTRON-SPECTROSCOPY OF RADICAL-ANIONS. Tetrahedron: the international journal for the rapid publication of full original research papers and critical reviews in organic chemistr. 6263-6267. 1986 ALKYLATION OF ENOLATE IONS. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 109-115. 1985 PHOTOELECTRON-SPECTROSCOPY OF CARBANIONS. ACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts. 30-PHYS. 1985 THE PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY OF HO-2. Journal of Chemical Physics. 5400-5406. 1985 PHOTOELECTRON-SPECTROSCOPY OF THE ALLYLIC ANION. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 7734-7741. 1984 LASER-INDUCED FLUORESCENCE STUDIES OF ION COLLISIONAL EXCITATION IN A DRIFT FIELD - ROTATIONAL-EXCITATION OF N-2+ IN HELIUM. Journal of Chemical Physics. 5448-5456. 1983 PHOTOELECTRON-SPECTROSCOPY OF CCO- AND HCCO-. The Journal of physical chemistry. 4810-4815. 1983 PHOTOELECTRON-SPECTROSCOPY OF HNO- AND DNO-. Journal of Chemical Physics. 6540-6558. 1983 PHOTOELECTRON-SPECTROSCOPY OF THE ALLENYL ION CH2=C=CH-. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2969-2975. 1983 PRODUCT VIBRATIONAL ANALYSIS OF ION MOLECULE REACTIONS BY LASER-INDUCED FLUORESCENCE IN A FLOWING AFTERGLOW - O-+HF-]OH(UPSILON=0,1)+F-. Chemical Physics Letters. 4-9. 1983 PHOTOELECTRON-SPECTROSCOPY OF ALKOXIDE AND ENOLATE NEGATIVE-IONS. The Journal of physical chemistry. 4873-4878. 1982 LASER PHOTOELECTRON-SPECTROSCOPY OF CH-2, AND THE SINGLET-TRIPLET SPLITTING IN METHYLENE. Journal of Chemical Physics. 5460-5473. 1981 NEUTRAL PRODUCTS OF ION-MOLECULE REACTIONS. ACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts. 210-ORGN. 1981 VIBRATIONAL PRODUCT STATES FROM REACTIONS OF CN- WITH THE HYDROGEN HALIDES AND HYDROGEN-ATOMS. Journal of Chemical Physics. 6154-6170. 1981 DIRECT DETECTION OF THE PRODUCT VIBRATIONAL-STATE DISTRIBUTION IN THE ASSOCIATIVE DETACHMENT REACTION CL-+H-]HCL(NU)+E. Physical Review Letters. 1050-1053. 1980 NEUTRAL PRODUCTS OF ION-MOLECULE REACTIONS. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 6851-6852. 1980 VIBRATIONAL PRODUCT STATE DISTRIBUTIONS OF ION-MOLECULE REACTIONS BY INFRARED CHEMI-LUMINESCENCE - CL-+HBR,HL-]HCL(V)+BR-,L-. Journal of Chemical Physics. 5426-5436. 1980 LASER MAGNETIC-RESONANCE DETECTION OF ROTATIONAL TRANSITIONS IN CH2. Chemical Physics Letters. 244-247. 1979 EXPERIMENTAL-DETERMINATION OF GEOMETRY AND ELECTRON-AFFINITY OF CH3. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2556-2558. 1978 LASER PHOTODETACHMENT ELECTRON SPECTROMETRY OF METHOXIDE, DEUTEROMETHOXIDE, AND THIOMETHOXIDE - ELECTRON AFFINITES AND VIBRATIONAL STRUCTURE OF CH3O, CD3O, AND CH3S. Journal of Chemical Physics. 1826-1832. 1978 VIBRATIONAL CHEMILUMINESCENCE FROM ION-MOLECULE REACTIONS - O-+CO-]CO-2+E-. Journal of Chemical Physics. 2375-2376. 1977 LASER PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROMETRY OF CH-2- - SINGLET-TRIPLET SPLITTING AND ELECTRON-AFFINITY OF CH-2. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 3731-3732. 1976
awards and honors Fellowship, conferred by John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1999 Sloan Research Fellowship-Chemistry, conferred by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1979