Wen-Bih Tzeng

E-mail wbt@sinica.edu.tw
Office 301
Tel. of office +886-2-2366-8236
Laboratory
Tel. of Lab.

B.S., 1976, Fu-Jen Catholic University, Taiwan
M.S., 1980, Texas A & M University, USA
Ph.D., 1986, Iowa State University, USA

Postdoctoral Fellow, Pennsylvania State University (1986–1990)
Associate Research Fellow, IAMS, Academia Sinica (1990–2001)
Research Fellow, IAMS, Academia Sinica (2001–)

Molecular beam resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization (REMPI) and mass-analyzed threshold ionization (MATI) spectroscopy
Molecular properties of multiply substituted benzene isomers in the electronically excited and cationic states
Photophysics and photochemistry of organometallic sandwich complexes

"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. A 118, 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. A 123, 5969−5979 (2019). [Hai Lung Dai festschrift]