Molecular properties of multiply substituted benzene isomers in the electronically excited and cationic states
Photophysics and photochemistry of organometallic sandwich complexes
Honors, Awards, and Recognitions
Selected Publications
"Spectroscopic investigation of cis-2,4-difluorophenol cation by mass-analyzed threshold ionization spectroscopy", Vidya Shivatare and Wen Bih Tzeng*, Bull. Korean Chem. Soc.35, 815−820 (2014). [Myung Soo Kim festschrift].
"Vibronic and cation spectroscopy of selected rotamers of 4-chloro-3-fluorophenol", Vidya Shivatare and Wen Bih Tzeng*, Mol. Phys.112, 2397−2406 (2014). [invited article]
"Studies of structural isomers o-, m-, and p-flurophenylacetylene by two-color resonant two-photon mass-analyzed threshold ionization spectroscopy", Vidya Shivatare and Wen Bih Tzeng*, J. Phys. Chem. A118, 8277−8286 (2014). [A.W. Castleman, Jr. festschrift]
"Identification of four rotamers of m-methoxystyrene by resonant two-photon ionization and mass-analyzed threshold ionization spectroscopy", Yanqi Xu, Sheng Yuan Tzeng, Vidya Shivatare, Kaito Takahashi, Bing Zhang, and Wen Bih Tzeng*, J. Chem. Phys.142, 124314 (2015).
"Fine substituent effects in sandwich complexes: First threshold ionization study of monosubstituted chromium bisarene compounds", Sergey Yu. Ketkov*, Gennady V. Markin, Sheng Y. Tzeng, and Wen B. Tzeng*, Chem. Eur. J.22, 4690−4694 (2016). [communication, hot paper, front cover]
"DFT-supported threshold ionization study of chromium biphenyl complexes: Unveiling the mechanisms of substituent influence on redox properties of sandwich compounds", Sergey Yu. Ketkov*, Sheng Y. Tzeng, Pei Yin Wu, Gennady V. Markin, and Wen B. Tzeng*, Chem. Eur. J. 23, 13669−13675 (2017). [hot paper, back cover]
"Resonant two-photon ionization and mass-analyzed threshold ionization spectroscopy of 3,5-difluorophenol", Wei Chih Peng, Pei Ying Wu, Shen Yuan Tzeng, and Wen Bih Tzeng*, Chem. Phys. Lett.700, 145−148 (2018).
"TD DFT insights into unusual properties of excited sandwich complexes: structural transformations and vibronic interactions in Rydberg-state bis(η6-benzene)chromium", Sergey Yu. Ketkov*, Elena A. Rychagova, Sheng-Yuan Tzeng, and Wen-Bih Tzeng*, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 20, 23988−23997 (2018).
"Rydberg state mediated multiphoton ionization of (η7-C7H7)(η5-C5H5)Cr: DFT-supported experimental insights into molecular and electronic structures of excited sandwich complexes", Sergey Yu. Ketkov*, Sheng-Yuan Tzeng, Elena A. Rychagova, Lyubov' V. Kalakutskaya, Marco Fuss, Holger Braunschweig, and Wen-Bih Tzeng*, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 21, 9665−9671 (2019). [hot paper, front cover]
"Cation vibrations of 1-methylnaphthalene and 2-methylnaphthalene through mass-analyzed threshold ionization spectroscopy", Sheng Yuan Tzeng, Vidya S. Shivatare, and Wen Bih Tzeng*, J. Phys. Chem. A123, 5969−5979 (2019). [Hai Lung Dai festschrift]