Chemistry @ Colgate: Ephraim Woods III

Chemistry @ Colgate

Ephraim Woods III
Assistant Professor of Chemistry

B.A. (Chemistry, Mathematics) 1993, Transylvania University
Ph.D. (Chemistry) 1998, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Email: ewoods@mail.colgate.edu
(315) 228-7237

Teaching Interests: Physical Chemistry, Atmospheric chemistry

Research Interests: Physical Chemistry of aerosol particles, structure of liquid surfaces, kinetics and dynamics of heterogeneous chemical reactions, mass spectrometry of single aerosol particles, laser control of chemical reactions. Detailed descriptions of current research projects are available.

Selected Publications

Smith, Geoffrey D., Woods, Ephraim, III, Baer, Tomas, and Miller, Roger E., “Aerosol Uptake Described by Numerical Solution of the Diffusion-Reaction Equations in the Particle”, J. Phys Chem. A 2003, 107, 9582-9587.
E. Woods III, G. D. Smith, R. E. Miller, and T. Baer, "Depth Profiling of Heterogeneously Mixed Aerosols Using Single Particle Mass Spectrometry Anal. Chem., 74 (7), 1642-1649 (2002).
E. Woods III, Y. Dessiaterik, T. Baer, and R. E. Miller, “Dynamics in the Early Stages of Decomposition of Liquid Nitromethane and Nitromethane-diethlyamine Mixtures,” J. Phys. Chem. A, 105, 8273 (2001).
E. Woods III, G. Smith, Y. Dessiaterik, T. Baer, and R. E. Miller, “Quantitative Detection of Aromatic Compounds in Single Aerosol Particle Mass Spectrometry,” Anal. Chem. 73, 2317 (2001).
J. M. Pfeiffer, E. Woods III, R. B. Metz, and F. F. Crim, “Probing the New Bond in the Vibrationally Controlled Bimolecular Reaction of O with HOD (4 nOH),” J. Chem. Phys. 113, 7982 (2000).
E. Woods III, H. L. Berghout, C. M. Cheatum, and F. F. Crim, “Controlling the Bimolecular Reaction and Photodissociation of HNCO through Selective Excitation of Perturbed Vibrational States,” J. Phys. Chem. A 104, 10356 (2000).
E. Woods III, C. M. Cheatum, and F. F. Crim, “Using Stretching and Bending Vibrations to Control the Reaction of Cl Atoms with Isocyanic Acid (HNCO),” J. Chem. Phys. 111, 5829 (1999).
J. M. Pfeiffer, R. B. Metz, J. D. Thoemke, E. Woods III, and F. F. Crim, “Reactions of O, H, and Cl Atoms with Highly Vibrationally Excited HCN: Using Product States to Determine Mechanisms,” J. Chem. Phys. 104, 4490 (1996).

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

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