Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry Karl Kirschner, Winslow Professor of Chemistry George Shields and Goldwater Scholar Mary Beth Day's recently published article, "Global Search for Minimum Energy (H2O)n Clusters, n = 3-5," has been recognized by the American Chemical Society (ACS) as one of the most accessed research articles for the third quarter of 2005 in the Journal of Physical Chemistry A. The ACS has recently listed the articles that are most accessed through the Internet, as this is one measure of an article's impact on the discipline.
The Journal of Physical Chemistry A publishes articles about molecules, including molecular structure, bonding, quantum chemistry, spectroscopy, gaseous clusters, kinetics, and atmospheric and environmental chemistry. It is the third most-cited journal in the world for published research in physical chemistry. The article by Day, Kirschner, and Shields reports on the use of quantum chemistry to understand the molecular structure of gaseous water clusters. In their article they report on a comprehensive conformational search of these small water clusters and have predicted all the possible structures of water trimers, tetramers, and pentamers in gas-phase beams and in the atmosphere. Their article was the 20th most accessed article from July through September of 2005.
Posted November 28, 2005
