Shane Devlin (Class of ’18)
Anomalous pH-Dependent Surface Adsorption of p-Methyl Benzoic Acid: Enhancement Due to Cooperative Adsorption Vibrational sum-frequency generation (SFG) spectroscopy is used to determine the surface pKa of p-methyl benzoic acid (pMBA) at the air–water interface by monitoring the carbonyl and carboxylate stretching modes over the pH range of 2 to 12. The SFG intensities of pMBA and […]
Paul Lemler (Class of ’13)
Reversible PCET and Ambient Catalytic Oxidative Alcohol Dehydrogenation by {V=O} Perfluoropinacolate Complexes An optimized procedure is described for the acquisition of 785 nm excited SERS spectra of dried bloodstains and shown to offer great potential for rapid, portable, highly sensitive and specific, confirmatory identification for forensic applications. Following extraction in 1 μL of 50% acetic […]