Chemistry @ Colgate: Quang Shen

Chemistry @ Colgate

Quang Shen
Professor of Chemistry

B.S. (Chemistry) 1970, Furman University
Ph.D. (Chemistry) 1974, Oregon State University

Email: mshen@mail.colgate.edu
(315) 228-7243

Teaching Interests: Physical Chemistry, General Chemistry

Research Interests: Gas phase electron diffraction, conformational analysis and barriers to internal rotation, vibrational spectroscopy, molecular structure and dynamics. Detailed descriptions of current research projects are available.

Selected Publications:

Shen and M. Traetteberg, “The Molecular Structure of 2,2,4,4,6,6-Hexamethyl -3,5-trimethylenecyclohexane As Determined by Gas-phase Electron Diffraction” J. Org. Chem., 69, 2094-98 (2004).
Shen, Q., and Traetteberg, M., “A Reinvestigation of the Molecular Structure of 4,4,8,8,12,12-Hexamethyltrispiro[2,1,2,1,2,1]dodecane” J. Mol. Struct. 657, 185-189 (2003).
Shen, Q., and Traetteberg, M., “The Molecular Structure of the anti Conformation of Vinylcyclopropane As Determined by Combined Electron Diffraction and Microwave Analysis” J. Mol. Struct.,654, 161-165 (2003).
Shen, Q., Walker, JP*, Traetteberg, M., “Molecular Structure and Conformation of 2,2 Dichlorocyclopropylbenzene as Determined by Ab Initio Calculations and Gas-Phase Electron Diffraction“ J. Mol. Struct. 648, 75-80( 2003).
Hagen, K.; Shen, Q.; Carter, R.;^* Marion, M.^* “Molecular Structure and Conformation of 1,1-Dicholor-2-propanone, CHCl₂–C(=O)–CH₃, as Determined by Gas-Phase Electron Diffraction and ab initio Molecular Orbital Calculations,” J. Phys. Chem. A 106, 4263–4266 (2002).
Shen, Q., Wells, C.*, Traetteberg , M., Bohn, R.K., Willis, A., and Knee, J., “The Molecular Structure and Conformation of Cyclopropylbenzene as Determined by Ab Initio Molecular Orbital Calculations, Pulsed-Jet Fourier Transform Microwave Spectroscopic and Gas-Phase Electron Diffraction Investigations,” J. Org. Chem. 66, 5840-5845 (2001).
Bickford, C., and Shen, Q., “Molecular structure and pseudorotational motion of bromocyclopentane as determined by gas-phase electron diffraction,” J. Mol. Struct. 567-568, 269-274 (2001).
Shen, Q., Kuhns, J.*, Hagen, K., and Richardson, A.D., “The molecular structure of 2-bromostyrene and (E)b-bromostyrene obtained by gas-phase electron diffraction and ab intio molecular orbital calculations,” J. Mol. Struct. 567-568, 73-83 (2001).

Asterisks indicate undergraduate student co-authors who conducted their research in collaboration with a faculty member at Colgate.

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