Publications: 2011 - 2015

  1. Robert H. Wells and Ward H. Thompson
    Journal of Physical Chemistry B119, 12446-12454 (2015).
    "What Determines the Location of a Small Solute in a Nanoconfined Liquid?"
  1. Fang Liu, Yi Fang, Manoj Kumar, Ward H. Thompson, and Marsha I. Lester
    Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics17, 20490-20494 (2015).
    "Direct Observation of Vinyl Hydroperoxide"
  1. Jacob A. Harvey and Ward H. Thompson, 
    Journal of Chemical Physics 143, 044701 (2015).
    "Solute Location in a Nanoconfined Liquid Depends on Charge Distribution"
  1. Jacob A. Harvey and Ward H. Thompson, 
    Journal of Physical Chemistry B 119, 9150-9159 (2015).
    "Thermodynamic Driving Forces for Dye Molecule Position and Orientation in Nanoconfined Solvents"
    (Branka M. Ladanyi Festschrift)
  1. Ward H. Thompson,
    Molecular Simulation 41​, 788-794 (2015).
    "Structure, Dynamics, and Hydrogen-bonding of Acetonitrile in Nanoscale Silica Pores" 
    (Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Molecular Simulation; Kobe, Japan)
  1. Manoj Kumar, Daryle H. Busch, Bala  Subramaniam, and Ward H. Thompson, 
    Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 16, 22968-22973 (2014).
    "Barrierless Tautomerization of Criegee Intermediate via Acid Catalysis"
  1. Manoj Kumar, Daryle H. Busch, Bala Subramaniam, and Ward H. Thompson, 
    Journal of Physical Chemistry A 117, 9701-9711 (2014).
    "Role of Tunable Acid Catalysis in Decomposition of α-Hydroxyalkyl Hydroperoxides and Mechanistic Implications for Tropospheric Chemistry"
  1. Aoife C. Fogarty, Elise Duboué-Dijon, Damien Laage, and Ward H. Thompson, 
    Journal of Chemical Physics 141, 18C523 (2014).
    "Origins of the Non-exponential Reorientation Dynamics of Nanoconfined Water"
    (invited for a special issue on Interfacial and Confined Water)
  1. Euna Yoo, Deepak B. Salunke, Diptesh Sil, Xiaoqiang Guo, Alex C.D. Salyer, Alec R. Hermanson, Manoj Kumar, Subbalakshmi S. Malladi, Rajalakshmi Balakrishna, Ward H. Thompson, Hiromi Tanji, Umeharu Ohto, Toshiyuki Shimizu, and Sunil A. David
    Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 57, 7955-7970 (2014).
    "Determinants of Activity at Human Toll-like Receptors 7 and 8: QSAR of Diverse Heterocyclic Scaffolds"
  1. Cassandra D. Norton and Ward H. Thompson,
    Journal of Physical Chemistry B 118, 8227-8235 (2014).
    "Reorientation Dynamics of Nanoconfined Acetonitrile: A Critical Examination of Two-State Models" (James L. Skinner Festschrift)
  1. Manoj Kumar, Daryle H. Busch, Bala Subramaniam, and Ward H. Thompson,
    Journal of Physical Chemistry A 118, 5020-5028 (2014).
    "Organic Acids Tunably Catalyze Carbonic Acid Decomposition

    TOC H2CO3 Decomposition

  1. Manoj Kumar, Daryle H. Busch, Bala Subramaniam, and Ward H. Thompson,
    Journal of Physical Chemistry A 118, 1887-1894 (2014).
    "The Criegee Intermediate Reaction with CO.  Mechanism, Barriers, Conformer-Dependence, and Implications for Ozonolysis Chemistry"
  1. Cassandra D. Norton and Ward H. Thompson,
    Journal of Physical Chemistry C 117, 19107-19114, (2013).
    ”On the Diffusion of Acetonitrile in Nanoscale Amorphous Silica Pores. Understanding Anisotropy and the Effects of Hydrogen Bonding”
  1. Anthony A. Vartia and Ward H. Thompson,
    Journal of Physical Chemistry B 116, 5414-5424 (2012).
    ”Solvation and Spectra of a Charge Transfer Solute in Ethanol Confined within Nanoscale Silica Pores”
  1. Damien Laage and Ward H. Thompson,
    Journal of Chemical Physics136, 044513 (2012).
    ”Reorientation Dynamics of Nanoconfined Water: Power-Law Decay, Hydrogen-Bond Jumps, and Test of a Two-State Model”
  1. Being J. Ka and Ward H. Thompson,
    Journal of Physical Chemistry A116, 832-838 (2012).
    ”Sampling the Proton Transfer Reaction Coordinate in Mixed Quantum-Classical Molecular Dynamics Simulations"
  1. Anthony A. Vartia, Katie R. Mitchell-Koch,Guillaume Stirnemann, Damien Laage, and Ward H. Thompson,
    Journal of Physical Chemistry B 115, 12173-12178 (2011).
    ”On the Reorientation and Hydrogen-Bond Dynamics of Alcohols"
  1. Brian B. Laird and Ward H. Thompson,
    Journal of Chemical Physics 135, 084511 (2011).
    ”Time-Dependent Fluorescence in Nanoconfined Solvents: Linear Response Approximations and Gaussian Statistics"
  1. Christine M. Morales and Ward H. Thompson,
    Journal of Physical Chemistry B115, 7597-7605 (2011).
    ”Molecular-level Mechanisms of Vibrational Frequency Shifts in a Polar Liquid"
  1. Ward H. Thompson,
    Annual Reviews of Physical Chemistry62, 599-619 (2011).
    "Solvation Dynamics and Proton Transfer in Nanoconfined Liquids”