B.S., North Dakota State University, 1985 Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1989 NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Houston, 1990-92

THEORETICAL & COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY

Our interests span several areas of research, particularly combustion of complex systems, solvation phenomena, zeolite catalysis, solid-liquid and solid-gas interfacial properties.

Quantum Molecular Modeling of Virtual Kinetic Laboratory: http://vklab.hec.utah.edu Reactions in Solutions: "An Overview of the Dielectric Continuum Methodology", T.N. Truong, Inter. Rev. Phys. Chem. 17, 525 (1998). Quantum Mechanical Study of Molecular Weight "Grow Process by Combination of Aromatic Molecules", A. Violi, T.N. Truong, A. F. Sarofirm, Combustion and Flame126, 1506 (2001). A Full Quantum Embedded Cluster Study of" Proton Siting in Chabazite", P. Treesukol, J.P. Lewis, J. Limtrakul, T.N. Truong, Chem. Phys. Lett. 350, 128 (2001). Nature of the Excited State of Rutile TiO2(110) "Surface with Absorbed Water", V. Shapovalov, T.N. Truong, Surface Science 498, L103 (2002). Electronic Structure and Chemical Reactivity of" Metal Oxides-Water Interfaces", T.N. Truong, M.A. Johnson, E.V. Stefanovich, in Structure and Reactivity of Solid-Liquid Interfaces, W. Halley Ed., ACS Symposium Series, Vol. 789, 124 (2001). First Principles Kinetics for"CO Desorption during Gasification of Coal", A. Montoya, F. Mondragon, T.N. Truong, J. Phys. Chem. A 106, 4236 (2002).

Kinetics of Hydrogen Abstraction Reaction Class H + HC(sp3): An Application of the Reaction Class Transition State Theory", S. Zhang, T.N. Truong, J. Phys. Chem. A, submitted.