Anderson Kinetics Group

Welcome to the home page for the kinetics sub group of the Anderson group,
the research group of professor James G. Anderson

We combine laboratory experiments using High Pressure Flow discharge flow kinetics with theoretical studies combining frontier orbital analysis with simple quantum mechanical models designed to isolate the fundamental interactions governing energy evolution in the transition state region. Fundamental questions driving our research include:

What controls radical cycling in various regions of the atmosphere?
What controls barrier heights in radical-molecule reactions?
Why are some reactions direct with single transition state, while others are indirect, with multiple transition states and short lived intermediates?
How do oxidation mechanisms for reduced compounds vary from compound to compound and in different regions of the atmosphere?
What are the dominant radical sources in the atmosphere?
What controls stratospheric ozone loss?
What controls urban and regional ozone production?

Reactions of the Month

Each month, more or less, we post previews of coming papers, current work, or just plain interesting stuff in the form of a short description.