Atmospheric, physical and organic chemistry (APOC)
"I am an experimentalist - we deal with the Truth [Tomas Baer, 1982]"
The group carries out fundamental research in gas-phase chemistry and the chemistry at interfaces, often inspired by environmental issues or by problems in atmospheric chemistry.
The approach is predominantly experimental and concerns the properties of atmospheric aerosols, the properties and reactions of new and short-lived molecules, radicals, clusters and ions in the gas phase, and isotope effects on chemical reactions. Our approach to these studies draws heavily on thermodynamics, spectroscopy, reaction kinetics and mechanism, photochemistry, physical and physical organic chemistry and applied quantum chemistry.
The group is developing a number of powerful experimental systems, including a femtosecond laser molecular beam instrument, a smog chamber facility, and a particle trap, to complement our instrumentation for laser chemistry, spectroscopy and mass spectrometry.
Some of our activities are part of the Copenhagen Global Change Initiative and some are in physical organic chemistry .
Contact
Group Leader: Ole John Nielsen
Secretary: C-secretariat
email: c-sekr@kiku.dk
tel.: +45 353 20300
fax: +45 353 20322
