Ionic Collisions and Clusters

The Rochester Reaction Dynamics Group



Representative Publications


Stefano Falcinelli, Franco Vecchiocattivi, James M. Farrar, and Fernando Pirani, “Chemi-Ionization Reactions and Basic Stereo-Dynamical Effects in Collisions of Atom-Molecule Reagents” J. Phys. Chem. A., 2021, 125, 3307-3315.

Stefano Falcinelli, Franco Vecchiocattivi, James M. Farrar, Brunetto Brunetti, Simonetta Cavalli, and Fernando Pirani, “Stereo-dynamical effects in chemi-ionization reactions of atmospheric O2 and N2 molecules promoted by collisions with Ne*(3P2,0) atoms” Chem. Phys. Lett., 2021, 778, 138813.

Stefano Falcinelli, James M. Farrar, Franco Vecchiocattivi, and Fernando Pirani, “Quantum-State Controlled Reaction Channels in Chemi-ionization Processes: Radiative (Optical−Physical) and Exchange (Oxidative− Chemical) Mechanisms" Accounts Chem. Research, 2020, 53, 2248-2260.

L. Pei and J. M. Farrar, “A Velocity Map Imaging Study of the Reactions of O+ (4S) with CH4 Front. Chem. 2019, 7, 227.

Linsen Pei and James M. Farrar, “Velocity Map Imaging Study of Ion-Radical Chemistry: Charge Transfer and Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation in the Reactions of Allyl Radicals with C+”, J. Phys. Chem., 2016, 120, 6122 - 6128.

Linsen Pei and James M. Farrar, “Ion-Molecule Reaction Dynamics: Velocity Map Imaging Studies of N+ and O+ with CD3OD” J. Chem. Phys., 2015, 143, 084304.

Linsen Pei, Eduardo Carrascosa, Nan Yang, Stefano Falcinelli, and James M. Farrar, “A Velocity Map Imaging Study of Charge Transfer and Proton Transfer Reactions of CH3 Radicals with H3+”, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2015, 6, 1684 - 1689.

Linsen Pei and James M. Farrar, “Imaging Ion-Molecule Reactions: Charge Transfer and Halide Transfer Reactions of O+ with CH3Cl, CH3Br, and CH3I”, Int. J. Mass Spectrom., 2015, 377, 93 - 100.

J. M. Farrar, “Historical perspective on: Neon interatomic potentials from scattering data and crystalline properties” [Chem. Phys. Lett. Volume 19, Issue 3, 1 April 1973, Pages 359–362], Chem. Phys. Lett. 2013, 589, 12-13.

Linsen Pei and James M. Farrar, “Ion Imaging Study of Reaction Dynamics in the N+ + CH4 System” J. Chem. Phys., 2012, 137, 154312.

Linsen Pei and James M. Farrar, “Imaging Ion-Molecule Reactions: Charge Transfer and C-N Bond-Formation in the C+ + NH3 System” J. Chem. Phys. 2012, 136, 204305.

Yue Li, Li Liu, and James M. Farrar, "Vibrational-Rotational Energy Distributions in the Reaction O- + D2 → OD + D-" J. Phys. Chem. A 2009, 113, 15233-15239. Vincenzo Aquilanti Festschrift.

James I. Lee, David C. Sperry, and James M. Farrar,“Spectroscopy and reactivity of size-selected Mg+- ammonia clusters”, J. Chem. Phys. 2004, 121, 8375-8384.

James M. Farrar, “Size-dependent reactivity in open shell metal-ion polar solvent clusters: spectroscopic probes of electronic-vibration coupling, oxidation and ionization”, Int. Rev. Phys. Chem. 2003, 22, 593-640.

James M. Farrar, “Steric and Solvent Effects in Ionic Reactions”, Science 2002, 295, 2222-2223.