Gichuhi Group
Gichuhi Group

Publications

  1. Workman, K. T.;  Usher, A. J.;  Henson, D. W.;  White, N. J.; Gichuhi, W. K., Predicted Negative Ion Photoelectron Spectra of 1-, 2-, and 9-Cyanoanthracene Radical Anions and Computed Thermochemical Values of the Three Cyanoanthracene Isomers. J. Phys. Chem. 2023.Publication Date: April 28, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.3c01178
  2. Workman Kie, T.; Firth, Rebecca. A.; and Gichuhi W.K. “From Benzonitrile to Dicyanobenzenes: The Effect of an Additional CN Group on the Thermochemistry and Negative Ion Photoelectron Spectra of Dicyanobenzene Radical Anions’’ J. Phys. Chem. A 2023, 127, 1, 181–194. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.2c07655
  3. Gichuhi Wilson K, and Gamage Lahiru, P.; Efficacy of the CO Tracer Technique in Partitioning Biogenic and Anthropogenic Atmospheric CO2 Signals in the Humid Subtropical Eastern Highland Rim City of Cookeville, Tennessee. Atmosphere 2023, 14(2), 208. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos14020208
  4. Firth, Rebecca. A.; Dimino, T. L.; Gichuhi, W. K., Negative Ion Photoelectron Spectra of Deprotonated Benzonitrile Isomers via Computation of Franck–Condon Factors. J. Phys. Chem. A. 2022, 126, (29), 4781-4790. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.2c03220
  5. Gamage, Lahiru, P.; Hix, Elijah G.;and Gichuhi W.K. “Ground-Based Atmospheric Measurements of CO:CO2 Ratios in Eastern Highland Rim Using a CO Tracer Technique,” ACS Earth Space Chem. 2020, 4(4), 558–571. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.9b00322
  6. Gichuhi W.K. “Astrochemistry as a Gateway to Teaching and Learning Threshold Concepts in Physical Chemistry,” World Journal of Chemical Education. 2019, 7(3), 209–215. DOI: 10.12691/wjce-7-3-4
  7. Gamage Lahiru P.; and Gichuhi W.K. “Efficacy of a Wavelength-Scanned Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopic Technique in Estimating Enteric Methane Emissions in Ruminants,” ACS Earth Space Chem., 2018, 2(7), pp 673–68. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.8b00023
  8. Nelson, D.J, Gichuhi, W.K., Nichols, C.M., Bierbaum, V.M, Lineberger, W.C, and Lehman J.H. “Photoelectron Spectroscopy and Thermochemistry of o-, m-, and p-Methylenephenoxide Anions,” Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 20(39), 25203-25216, 2018. DOI: DOI: 10.1039/c8cp05403g
  9. Nelson, D.J., Gichuhi, W.K., Miller, E., and Lineberger, W.C. “Ion Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Deprotonated ortho-, meta-, and para-Methylphenol,” Journal of Chemical Physics, 146(6), 074302, 2017. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4975330
  10. Gichuhi, W.K., and Suits, A.G. “Low-Temperature Branching Ratio for the Reaction of State-Prepared N2+ with Acetonitrile,” J. Phys. Chem A, 116(3), 938, 2012.
  11. Gichuhi, W.K., and Suits, A.G. “Primary Branching Ratios for the Low Temperature Reaction of State-Prepared N2+ with CH4, C2H2 and C2H4,” J. Phys. Chem. A, 115(25), 7105, 2011.
  12. Gichuhi, W.K., Mebel, A.M., and Suits, A.G. “UV Photodissociation of Ethylamine Cation: A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Investigation,” J. Phys. Chem. A 114, 51, 13296: cover for the December 30, 2010, 114,51 issue.
  13. Suits, A.G., Gichuhi, W.K., and Mebel, A.M. General Discussion; Faraday Discuss. 146.
  14. Suits, A.G., Gichuhi, W.K., Silva, R., Doyle, M.B., Mebel, A.M., and Kaiser, R.I. “Laboratory Studies of Primary Photochemistry Relevant to Titan’s Atmosphere,” LPI Contribution No. 1538, 5283.
  15. Huang, C., Zhang, F., Kaiser, R.I., Kislov, V.V., Mebel, A.M., Silva, R., Gichuhi, W.K., and Suits, A.G. “Photodissociation of the Diacetylene Dimer and Implications for Hydrocarbon Growth in Titan’s Atmosphere,’’ Astrophysical Journal, 714, 1249, 2010.
  16. Silva, R., Gichuhi, W.K., Kislov, V.V., Mebel, A.M., and Suits, A.G., “UV “Photodissociation of Cyanoacetylene: A Combined Ion Imaging and Theoretical Investigation,” J. Phys. Chem. A, 113(42), 11182–11186, 2009.
  17. Silva, R., Gichuhi, W.K., Doyle, M.B., Winney, A.H., and Suits, A.G. “Photodissociation of Heptane Isomers and Relative Ionization Efficiencies of Butyl and Propyl Radicals at 157 nm,” Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 11, 4777-4781, 2009.
  18. Silva, R., Gichuhi, W.K., Huang, C., Doyle, M.B., Kislov, V.V., and Mebel, A.M., and Suits, A.G. “H-elimination and Metastable Lifetimes in the UV Photoexcitation of Diacetylene,”Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci, 105, 12713-12718, 2008.