Course materials are now all on D2L. A few materials for "Chemical Thermodynamics and Kinetics" and "Kinetics and Molecular Dynamics" are made available through the links below:

Chem 1310, General Chemistry I; Chem 1315G, General Chemistry I Lab; Chem 1390, Honors General Chemistry I; Chem 1395, Honors General Chemistry I Lab

Chem 1410, General Chemistry II; Chem 1415, General Chemistry II Lab; Chem 1490, Honors General Chemistry 2

Chem 3910, Chemical Thermodynamics and Kinetics; Chem 3920, Quantum Chemistry

Chem 5250, Kinetics and Molecular Dynamics; Chem 5300, Molecular Spectroscopy

Chem 1040G, World of Chemistry; Chem 2040G, Practical Chemistry

Research Interests

I am interested in several different types of spectroscopy. My doctoral research focused on microwave spectroscopy of weakly bound dimers and trimers, an area that I have been able to pursue at EIU in collaboration with Dr. Sean Peebles's group. Other interests involve the use of vibrational spectroscopy to investigate chemical systems with environmental or atmospheric relevance. I have utilized the Far-IR Beamline at the Canadian Light Source synchrotron facility to record high resolution infrared spectra of small molecules. Other infrared interests of mine include use of high resolution IR laser absorption spectroscopy to study weakly bound complexes. In my earliest research efforts at EIU, I worked first on building a mid-infrared cavity ring-down spectrometer, and then changed this to an IR laser absorption spectrometer with a multipass "cell" spanning a supersonic jet sample source. We also incorporated a pulsed electric discharge nozzle into this source, and we were able to record some fun visible emission spectra of the discharge products from xylene and other small precursors before converting the spectrometer to IR mode. This IR system is now on hold while I focus more on microwave spectroscopy projects, but I hope to resurrect it in the near future. A photo-blog of our initial construction of the IR spectrometer at EIU is here: Construction of a Cavity Ringdown Spectrometer at EIU

Some of our earliest Canadian Light Source data is here: Canadian Light Source Spectra - older data