Professor of Chemistry. B. S. 1964, University of Illinois. Ph. D., 1967, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Physical Chemistry. Fourier-transform infrared, laser Raman, and jet-cooled fluorescence spectroscopy; vibrational potential energy functions; matrix isolation spectroscopy; Raman difference spectroscopy; nitrogen-oxygen chemistry; organometallic synthesis; spectroscopic theory and computation.

Molecular Structure/Spectroscopy and Dynamics

Vibrational Spectroscopy and Molecular Structure

J. Laane, Editor, Frontiers of Molecular Spectroscopy, Elsevier Publishing, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 706 pp. (2009). Includes chapter "Vibrational Potential Energy Surfaces in Electronic Excited States" by J. Laane, pp.63-132. "Intramolecular π-type hydrogen bonding and conformations of 3-cyclopenten-1-ol. 1. Theoretical calculations." A.A. Al-Saadi, E.J. Ocola, and J. Laane, J. Phys. Chem. A, 114, 7453-7456 (2010). "Intramolecular π-type hydrogen bonding and conformations of 3-cyclopenten-1-ol. 2. Infrared and Raman spectral studies at high temperatures." E.J. Ocola, A.A. Al-Saadi, C. Mlynek, H. Hopf, and J. Laane, J. Phys. Chem. A, 114, 7457-7461 (2010). "Spectroscopic Investigations and Potential Energy Surfaces of the Ground and Excited Electronic States of 1,3-Benzodioxan." K. McCann, M. Wagner, A. Guerra, P. Coronado, J.R. Villareal, J. Choo, S. Kim, and J. Laane, J. Chem. Phys., 131, 044302/1-9 (2009). "Spectroscopic Investigation of the Molecular Vibrations of 1,4-Dihydronaphthalene in its Ground and Excited Electronic States." M.Z.M. Rishard, M. Wagner, J. Choo, and J. Laane, J. Phys. Chem. A, 113, 7753-7759 (2009). "Ultraviolet Absorption Spectra of Pyridine-d0 and –d5 and Their Ring-Bending Potential Energy Function in the S1(n,π*) State." P. Boopalachandran and J. Laane, Chem. Phys. Lett., 462, 178-182 (2008). "Ultraviolet Cavity Ringdown Spectra and the S1(n,π*) Ring-Inversion Potential Energy Function for 2-Cyclohexen-1-one-d0 and its 2,6,6-d3 Isotopomer." M.Z.M. Rishard, E.A. Brown, L.A. Ausman, S. Drucker, J. Choo, and J. Laane, J. Phys. Chem. A, 112, 38-44 (2008). "Spectroscopic Determination of Vibrational Potential Energy Surfaces in Ground and Excited Electronic States." J. Yang and J. Laane, J. Elec. Spectrosc. and Related Phenomena, 156-158, 45-50 (2007). "Spectroscopic and Computational Studies of the Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonding of 2-Indanol." A.A. Al-Saadi, M. Wagner, and J. Laane, J. Phys. Chem. A, 110, 12292-12297 (2006).