R. Benny Gerber

Research interests

Publications

• The future of airborne sulfur-containing particles in the absence of fossil fuel sulfur dioxide emissions

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1510743112

• New particle formation and growth from methanesulfonic acid, trimethylamine and water

  Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1039/c5cp00838g

• Reactions of Methanesulfonic Acid with Amines and Ammonia as a Source of New Particles in Air

  The Journal of Physical Chemistry B · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.5b07433

• Computational Studies of Atmospherically-Relevant Chemical Reactions in Water Clusters and on Liquid Water and Ice Surfaces

  Accounts of Chemical Research · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1021/ar500431g

• Calculations predict a stable molecular crystal of N8

  Nature Chemistry · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1818

• Simplified mechanism for new particle formation from methanesulfonic acid, amines, and water via experiments and ab initio calculations

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1211878109

• Chlorine activation indoors and outdoors via surface-mediated reactions of nitrogen oxides with hydrogen chloride

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0904195106

• A Small Neutral Molecule with Two Noble-Gas Atoms: HXeOXeH

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1021/ja077835v

• Noble-Gas Hydrides: New Chemistry at Low Temperatures

  Accounts of Chemical Research · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1021/ar800110q

• Calculation of Vibrational Transition Frequencies and Intensities in Water Dimer: Comparison of Different Vibrational Approaches

  The Journal of Physical Chemistry A · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1021/jp710066f

• A Gate to Organokrypton Chemistry: HKrCCH

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1021/ja0355269

• Quantum Chemical Calculations on Novel Molecules from Xenon Insertion into Hydrocarbons

  The Journal of Physical Chemistry A · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1021/jp026777r

• Experiments and Simulations of Ion-Enhanced Interfacial Chemistry on Aqueous NaCl Aerosols

  Science · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.288.5464.301

• Anharmonic Vibrational Spectroscopy of Hydrogen-Bonded Systems Directly Computed from ab Initio Potential Surfaces: (H2O)n, n = 2, 3; Cl-(H2O)n, n = 1, 2; H+(H2O)n, n = 1, 2; H2O−CH3OH

  The Journal of Physical Chemistry A · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1021/jp993391g

• Ab initio calculation of anharmonic vibrational states of polyatomic systems: Electronic structure combined with vibrational self-consistent field

  The Journal of Chemical Physics · 1999 · https://doi.org/10.1063/1.479452

• Mo/ller–Plesset perturbation theory applied to vibrational problems

  The Journal of Chemical Physics · 1996 · https://doi.org/10.1063/1.472922

• Vibrational wave functions and spectroscopy of (H2O) n , n =2,3,4,5: Vibrational self-consistent field with correlation corrections

  The Journal of Chemical Physics · 1996 · https://doi.org/10.1063/1.472960

• Validity of time-dependent self-consistent-field (TDSCF) approximations for unimolecular dynamics: A test for photodissociation of the Xe–HI cluster

  The Journal of Chemical Physics · 1990 · https://doi.org/10.1063/1.458965

• Self‐Consistent‐Field Methods for Vibrational Excitations in Polyatomic Systems

  Advances in chemical physics · 1988 · https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470141199.ch4

• Molecular scattering from surfaces: theoretical methods and results

  Chemical Reviews · 1987 · https://doi.org/10.1021/cr00077a003

• Exact time-dependent quantum mechanical dissociation dynamics of I2He: Comparison of exact time-dependent quantum calculation with the quantum time-dependent self-consistent field (TDSCF) approximation

  The Journal of Chemical Physics · 1987 · https://doi.org/10.1063/1.453063

• Excited vibrational states of polyatomic molecules: the semiclassical self-consistent field approach

  The Journal of Physical Chemistry · 1986 · https://doi.org/10.1021/j100273a008

• Dissociation dynamics of vibrationally excited van der Waals clusters: I2XY → I2+X+Y (X, Y=He, Ne)

  The Journal of Chemical Physics · 1983 · https://doi.org/10.1063/1.446026

• Time-dependent self-consistent field approximation for intramolecular energy transfer. I. Formulation and application to dissociation of van der Waals molecules

  The Journal of Chemical Physics · 1982 · https://doi.org/10.1063/1.444225

• Rotationally inelastic molecule–surface scattering in the sudden approximation

  The Journal of Chemical Physics · 1980 · https://doi.org/10.1063/1.440676

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