FUNDING

Earth Abundant Transition Metal Oxides and Carbides as Super-Atom Molecular Analogs to Platinum, American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund, $110,000. Funding period 09/01/18 to 08/31/2020

LIST OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS (DOI are links)

1. M. G. Gutierrez, Z. Theis, T. W. R. Lewis and D. J. Bellert, A molecular beam apparatus for performing single photon initiated dissociative rearrangement reactions (SPIDRR) with transition metal cation bound organic clusters, Rev. Sci. Instrum., 89, 074101, 2018, DOI:10.1063/1.5024939.
2. A. Mansell, D. Kahle and D. J. Bellert, Calculating RRKM Rate Constants from Vibrational Frequencies and Their Dynamic Interpretation, Math. J., 19, 2017 DOI:10.3888/tmj.19-5.
3. C. Silva López, O. N. Faza, A. Mansell, Z. Theis and D. Bellert, Three Reaction Channels with Signature Proton Transfers in the Ni(I)-Catalyzed Decomposition of Ethyl Acetate, Organometallics, 2017, 36, 761–766, DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.6b00769.
4. A. Mansell, Z. Theis, M. G. Gutierrez, O. N. Faza, C. S. Lopez and D. J. Bellert, Submerged Barriers in the Ni⁺ Assisted Decomposition of Propionaldehyde, J. Phys. Chem. A, 2016, 120, 2275–2284, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5b08444.
5. O. J. Villarroel, I. E. Laboren and D. J. Bellert, Co⁺-Assisted Decomposition of h₆ – Acetone and d₆ – Acetone: Acquisition of Reaction Rate Constants and Dynamics of the Dissociative Mechanism, J. Phys. Chem. A, 2012, 116, 3081–3088, DOI:10.1021/jp2047135.