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Microgel particles are being applied to a variety of nano- and microtechnologies such as biomaterials, materials for enhancing oil refinery, and catalysis. Highly deformable microgel particles dispersed in solvent, swell more than stiffer particles because the latter have a higher crosslinking densi...

Coherent Multidimensional Spectroscopy is a technique that can be used to gain structural and behavioral information about gases and molecules. In contrast to the limitations presented in One-Dimensional Spectroscopy such as spectral congestion, this technique produces rotationally and vibrationally...

Tetrahydrobenzoxepines are seven-membered heterocyclic rings that are found in a variety of natural products and biologically active substances such as Forbaglin, a potent anticancer agent derivative. This project targets the synthesis of tetrahydrobenzoxepines from donor acceptor nitrocyclopropanes...

Spectroscopy is used to investigate how matter, such as atoms and molecules, interacts with light. Spectroscopy is also one of the most effective ways to study the behavior and structure of molecules. Conventional spectroscopy is able to gather information for most simple molecules. However, some mo...

Spectroscopy uses the interaction between light and matter to create spectra that are used to determine the structure and behavior of atoms and molecules. The transition from traditional one-dimensional to two- and three-dimensional spectroscopy can give more information about the molecules or sampl...

The infrared region of the light spectrum contains photon energies that are able to create vibrational excitations of covalently bonded atoms and groups. This region is known to contain many fundamental stretches (e.g. N-H, C-H, O-H, etc.) that are useful when analyzing molecules and determining mol...

Spectroscopy is the use of electromagnetic radiation to analyze the composition and behavior of matter (e.g., atoms and molecules). Recently developed three dimensional spectroscopy techniques yield spectra with higher resolution and less congestion than in 2D spectroscopy. This project focuses on t...

Baylis-Hillman reactions are described as the addition of an acrylate to an aldehyde catalyzed by an amine. This reaction is atom economical, but for our reaction of benzaldehyde and methyl vinyl ketone it produced low yields and the reaction rates were slow. To increase the reaction rates and yield...