Materials for Evaluation

Letter from the Chair of the Tenure Review Committee

Curriculum Vitae of Timothy Dransfield

Personal Statement from Timothy Dransfield

Publications Since Appointment:

A. Rudnitskaya, B. Torok, T.J. Dransfield, “A B3LYP/6-31+G(d) Study of the Reaction Pathways and Conformational Preference in a Model Chichibabin Reaction,” Computational and Theoretical Chemistry,2011, 963, 191.

Y.-W. Huang, T.J. Dransfield, J.G. Anderson, “Experimental evidence for the pressure dependence of the reaction rate constant between acetic acid and hydroxyl radicals,” Journal of Physical Chemistry A , 2010, 114, 11538.

M.M. Sprengnether, T.J. Dransfield, K.L. Demerjian, J.S. Clarke, J.G. Anderson, N.M. Donahue, “Rate Constants of Nine C6−C9 Alkanes with OH from 230 to 379 K: Chemical Tracers for [OH],” Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2009, 113, 17, 5030.

Y.-W. Huang, T.J. Dransfield, J.D. Miller, R.D. Rojas, X.G. Castillo, J.G. Anderson, “Experimental Study of the Kinetics of the Reaction of Acetic Acid with Hydroxyl Radicals from 255 to 355 K,” Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2009, 113, 2, 423.

J.Y. Zhang, T.J. Dransfield, N.M. Donahue, “On the mechanism for nitrate formation via the peroxy radical plus NO reaction,” Journal of Physical Chemistry A,2004, 108, 42, 9082.

Select Poster Presentations:

M.M. Gennaco, Y.-W. Huang, R.A. Hannun, T.J. Dransfield, “Absolute Rate Constants for the Reaction of OH with Cyclopentane and Cycloheptane from 230-350 K”, Contributed Poster, 7th International Conference on Chemical Kinetics, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, July 10-14, 2011.

K.L. Flanders, R.D. Rojas, S.G. Cullipher, C.C. Koutros, L. Barus, M.M. Sprengnether, T.J. Dransfield, “Product study of the OH-initiated Oxidation of Butane and Acrolein,” Contributed Poster, 240th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, Boston, Massachusetts, August 22-26, 2010.

Y.-W. Huang, T.J. Dransfield, J.G. Anderson, “Pressure Dependence of the Reaction Rate of Acetic Acid with Hydroxyl Radical,” Contributed Poster, 2009 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco CA, December 14-18, 2009.

A.N. Rudnitskaya, B. Torok, T.J. Dransfield, “A DFT Study of the Reaction Pathway and Conformational Preference in a Model Chichibabin Reaction,” Contributed Poster, 238 th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, Washington, D.C., August 16-20, 2009.

Y.-W. Huang, T.J. Dransfield, J.D. Miller, R.D. Rojas, X.G. Castillo, J.G. Anderson, “Experimental Study of the Kinetics of the Reaction of Acetic Acid with Hydroxyl Radicals From 255 to 355 K,” Contributed Poster, 2008 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco CA, December 15-19, 2008.

A.N. Rudnitskaya and T.J. Dransfield, ” A Computational Study of the Atmospheric Oxidation of Cyclohexane”, Contributed Poster, 10th Annual Chemistry Research Conference (NSCRC) of the Northeast Section of the American Chemical Society, Boston, MA, April 2008.