SUITS Group


	Suits GROUP Home Page Arthur Suits' Home Page Research Contact Information Publications Group Meetings Current Members: *Arthur G. Suits* Post Docs: *Dr. Prashant C. Singh* *Dr. Vasiliy Goncharov* Graduate Students: *Ruchira Silva* Lei Shen Wilson Gichuhi Armando Estillore Nuradhika Herath Lu Yan Undergraduate Students: *Mike Doyle* *Recent Members:* Dr. Cunshun Huang Dr. Bailin Zhang Dr. Suk Kyoung Lee Dr. Sridhar Lahankar Dr. Myung Hwa Kim Dr. Wen Li Dr. Steve Chambreau Dr. Brian Leskiw Dr. Xianghong Liu Dr. Dave Townsend *Dr. Mike Minitti* *Delon Wilson* Shakera Thammana Peter Hallock Janelle Arendt Mohit Patel Simran Dulay Amanda Holliday Wayne State Chemistry Links The material found in these pages was developed in part with the support of the National Science Foundataion, The U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, and the Petroleum Researcch Fund of the American Chemical Society.

Welcome to the Suits Group

Research Focus
Our work explores fundamental issues in chemical reaction dynamics and chemical physics. We use a combination of quantum-state resolved and universal ion imaging techniques to probe the intimate details of atomic and molecular interactions.

New Directions
NSF-IDBR:
Tandem mass spectrometry with electrostatic ion traps.

NSF-CRC:
Formation and growth mechanisms of hydrocarbons in Titan's atmosphere.

News
Special Post-Doctoral Opportunity:

New Directions in Tandem Mass Spectrometry with Coupled Electrostatic Ion Traps.
This position is supported jointly by the Graduate School and the Department of Chemistry at Wayne State University, and will involve commissioning experiments and dynamics and proteomics studies using a unique, newly constructed apparatus. The position includes a generous salary and benefits, but is only open to US citizens or permanent residents. Please email for futher information.

Diacetylene Photodissociation and Titan
Primary photochemistry of diacetylene studied by ion imaging and UV-VUV pump-probe, along with theory from the Mebel group was featured in the Chemical Dynamics issue of Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci.:

Roaming Dynamics:

Our work on roaming dynamics in formaldehyde dissociation is featured in Accounts of Chemical Research 41, 873 (2008):

Conformationally-controlled Dynamics: Ion imaging results for the H loss channel from propanal cation dissocation show profound dependence on the initial conformer. This remarkable behavior is understood with the aid of AIMS dynamical calculations from the Martinez group at Illinois. Free reprint: M. H. Kim, et al. Science, 315, 1561 (2007).

An overview of our work is presented in a feature article in The Journal of Physical Chemistry A: D. Townsend, W. Li, S. K. Lee, R. L. Gross and A. G. Suits, J. Phys. Chem. A, 109, 8661 (2005) 10.1021/jp0526086. (Left, below)

Ion Imaging Comes of Age: Contributions to the Pacifichem Symposium "Imaging Probes of Spectroscopy and Dynamics" are compiled in a special issue of PCCP: 8(24) (2006).