Chemistry Faculty, Students Attend Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy

Several Wesleyan faculty and graduate students attended the 68th Ohio State University International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy held in Columbus, Ohio in 2013.

Stewart Novick, Herbert Pickett and Stephen Cooke, and graduate students Smitty Grubbs Ph.D ’10, Daniel Obenchain and Brittany Long made presentations.

Novick, chair and professor of chemistry, and Grubbs presented a talk on “Microwave Spectra and Structure of H2 – CuF: Overview of the Complexes of Hydrogen with Metal-Containing Diatomics.”

Novick, Grubbs and Obenchain presented “Observation of a Moderate Strength Interaction of Hydrogen with a Coinage Metal Halide: The Rotational Spectrum and Structure of the p-H2-CuCl and o-H2-CuCl Complexes.”

Novick, Grubbs, Obenchain and Herbert Pickett, research professor in chemistry, presented “FTMW Observation and Analysis of the p-H2-AgCl and o-H2-AgCl Complex” and “Hydrogen Interaction with Metal Halides: The Nuclear Quadrupole Coupling Constant of Gold in the p-H2-AuCl Complex and Trends in the other Hydrogen-Coinage Metal Halide Interactions.”

Novick, Grubbs, Obenchain and Stephen Cooke, visiting professor of chemistry, presented “Microwave Spectra of Fluorinated Propionic Acids and their Hydrates.”

Cooke and graduate student Brittany Long presented “Pure Rotational Spectra of the Reaction Products of Laser Ablated Thorium Metal and Oxygen Molecules Entrained within Supersonic Expansions of Noble Gases.”