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Zeb Kramer has been teaching physical and general chemistry at La 91直播’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry since 2015.聽聽Dr. Kramer’s research interests span a range of topics in chemical dynamics and kinetics with an emphasis on interpreting reaction mechanisms in the language of theoretical classical and quantum dynamics.聽聽The main focus of Dr. Kramer’s research involves studying classes of non-statistical chemical reactions not readily amenable to study by statistical reaction rate theories.聽聽Dr. Kramer is also interested in the kinetics of complex chemical processes relevant to combustion and atmospheric chemistry.聽聽A typical student project in Dr. Kramer’s lab focuses on computational or theoretical chemistry with an emphasis on chemical dynamics simulations and electronic structure calculations.

Dr. Kramer received his undergraduate degree from Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas.聽聽He received his Ph.D. in chemical physics from the University of Colorado-Boulder in the area of theoretical chemical reaction dynamics.聽He performed post-doctoral work at Cornell University studying non-statistical reactions before coming to 91直播 as an assistant professor.

Education

• Postdoctoral, Cornell University
• PhD, Chemical Physics, University of Colorado-Boulder
• BS, Chemistry, Mathematics, & Physics, Washburn University

Representative Publications

Zeb C. Kramer, Barry K. Carpenter, Gregory S. Ezra, and Stephen Wiggins,聽A Reaction Bifurcation in an Electrocyclic Reaction: The Ring-Opening of the Cyclopropyl Radical,聽Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2015, 119, 6611-6630.

Peter Collins,聽Zeb C. Kramer, Barry K. Carpenter, Gregory S. Ezra, and Stephen Wiggins,聽Nonstatistical Dynamics on the Caldera,聽Journal of Chemical Physics, 2014, 141, 034111.

Zeb C. Kramer聽and Rex T. Skodje,聽A Semiclassical Adiabatic Calculation of State Densities for Molecules Exhibiting Torsion:聽聽Application to Hydrogen Peroxide and its Isotopomers, Theoretical Chemistry Accounts, 2014, 133, 1530.

Zeb C. Kramer, Xiang-Kui Gu, Dingyu D. Y. Zhou, Wei-Xue Li, and Rex T. Skodje,聽Following Molecules through Reactive Networks: Surface Catalyzed Decomposition of Methanol on Pd(111), Pt(111), and Ni(111),聽Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2014, 118, 12364-12383.

Teaching

• Quantum Chemistry & Spectroscopy
• Thermodynamics & Kinetics
• General Chemistry I and II (Lecture and Lab)

Areas of Expertise

• Chemical Reaction Dynamics
• Theoretical Chemistry
• Physical Chemistry