Achievement

Gregory Kuzmanich continued the development of kinetic methods to study photoinduced transformations in crystalline solids. With colloidal suspensions of crystals ca. 200 nm in size, he has shown that crystals smaller than the wavelength of light display a strong reduction of light scattering & birefringence, which makes them amenable to conventional transmission spectroscopy. Using pump-probe methods he recently published the 1st characterization of the elusive reaction intermediate oxyallyl (J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2011, 133, 2342), & described the first picosecond transient studies on the Norrish Type I reactions in crystals (Chem. Sci., DOI:10.1039/C1SC00184A.). All of his research has been part of international or domestic collaborative projects. Greg was invited as one of 40 graduate students to participate in the first annual ACS graduate symposium & his was the only student invited to present at the ISRIUM conference on reactive intermediates at Pacifichem in December 2010.