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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Atmospheric Chemistry,Spectroscopy |
| Keywords | Quantenchemische Rechnungen, Laborexperimente, Matrixisolationsspektroskopie, Modellierungen |
Current contact address
| Country | United States of America |
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| City | Philadelphia |
| Institution | University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) |
| Institute | Department of Earth and Environmental Science |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Helge Willner | Fachbereich 6 - Chemie - Geographie, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg |
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| Prof. Dr. Helge Willner | Fach Anorganische Chemie, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Wuppertal |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/12/2002 |
Programme(s)
| 2001 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor Francisco is an outstanding member of the international Atmospheric Science Community. By using quantum chemical methods he predicted the properties of many short lived species of atmospheric interest. Later he and others detected these species in laboratory experiments and included their behaviour in atmospheric models. Fluorinated ethers are currently under consideration as third generation of alternative halocarbon compounds. However, there is a lack of understanding of the chemistry involving these species. In collaboration with Professor Willner, University of Duisburg (now Wuppertal); a complete picture of their degradation and coupling chemistry will be studied for assessing the long-term environmental impact of these materials of various wide-ranging applications. |
Publications (partial selection)
| 2003 | Joseph Francisco and others: Experimental Characterization of the CF3O3 Radical. In: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2003, 4690-4693 |
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| 2003 | Joseph Francisco et al: The Trifluoromethyl Trioxy Radical, CF3OOO. In: Angew. Chem, 2003, 4838-4841 |
| 2002 | Joseph Francisco et al: The Trifluoromethoxy Carbonyl Peroxy Radical, CF3OC(O)OO. In: Chem. Eur. J, 2002, 4675-4680 |
| 2002 | Joseph Francisco et al: The Trifluoromethoxycarbonyl Radical CF3OCO. In: Chem. Eur. J., 2002, 1189-1195 |