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Stephen G. Kukolich | |
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| Born | February 3, 1940 Appleton, Wisconsin |
| Education | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Vicksburg High School |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Employer | University of Arizona |
| Known for | High Resolution Spectroscopy, Microwave measurements of structures of transition metal complexes. |
Stephen Kukolich, (born February 3, 1940) is an experimental physical chemist in the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department at the University of Arizona. His primary research is high-resolution rotational spectroscopy to determine molecular structures and electronic properties of molecules and complexes. A two-cavity molecular beam maser was developed at M.I.T.[1] and a very large cavity Balle-Flygare spectrometer[2] was constructed at the University of Arizona.
Education and Career
He entered M.I.T in 1958 and graduated in Physics in 1962. He continued studies at M.I.T., graduating with a Sc.D. in Physics in 1966. The thesis project was on accurate measurements of ammonia hyperfine structure with a high-resolution two-cavity maser spectrometer[3]. After 2 years as an instructor in Physics, the following year was spent collaborating with Willis H. Flygare on molecular Zeeman effect measurements[4]. He returned to M.I.T., in the Chemistry Department, as assistant professor in 1969. He moved to the University of Arizona, Chemistry Department in 1974 and became a full professor in 1979[5].
Research
Early research yielded measurements of ammonia inversion frequencies and hyperfine structure[6] with high accuracy and precision using the two-cavity maser spectrometer[7] developed at M.I.T. The high resolution allowed measurements of deuterium quadrupole coupling for many small molecules[8]. Most of the published microwave structures for transition metal complexes were determined from measurements by his microwave group at the University of Arizona. The structures for many hydrogen-bonded and other weakly-bound complexes were determined from the microwave spectra. Some hydrogen-bonded complexes are not simply static structures but may undergo internal motions involving the hydrogen bonds. This was demonstrated by measuring the concerted proton tunneling frequency for the formic acid - propiolic acid complex in a pulsed-beam spectrometer[9][10].
- ^ "Measurement of Hyperfine Structure of the J=3, K=2 Inversion Line of N14H3," S. G. Kukolich, Phys. Rev. 138, A 1322 (1965)
- ^ 191. “Design, Construction and Testing of a Large-Cavity, 1-10 GHz Flygare-Balle Spectrometer,” Stephen G. Kukolich and Laszlo C. Sarkozy, Rev. Sci, Instrum., 82(9), DOI: 094103/1-094103/14 (2011)
- ^ "Measurements of Ammonia Hyperfine Structure with a Two-Cavity Maser," S. G. Kukolich, Phys. Rev. 156, 83 (1967)
- ^ "Molecular g-Values, Magnetic Susceptibility Anisotropies, Second Moment of the Charge Distribution and Molecular Quadrupole Moments in Formic Acid," S. G. Kukolich and W. H. Flygare, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 91, 2433 (1969)
- ^ http://cbc.arizona.edu/faculty/stephen-kukolich
- ^ "Measurements of Ammonia Hyperfine Structure with a Two-Cavity Maser," S. G. Kukolich, Phys. Rev. 156, 83 (1967)
- ^ "Measurements of the 3-2 Inversion Frequency and Frequency Stability of a Two-Cavity Ammonia Maser," S. G. Kukolich, Proc. IEEE 56, 124 (1968).
- ^ "Deuterium Quadrupole Coupling in the Gas Phase," S.G. Kukolich, Mol. Phys. 29, 249 (1975).
- ^ Communications: “Evidence for proton tunneling from the microwave spectrum of the formic acid – propiolic acid dimer.” Adam M. Daly, P. R. Bunker and Stephen G. Kukolich, J. Chem. Phys. 132(20), DOI: 201101/1-201101/3, (2010).
- ^ “Microwave measurements of proton tunneling and structural parameters for the propiolic acid – formic acid dimer,” Adam M. Daly, Kevin O. Douglass, Laszlo C. Sarkozy, Justin L. Neill, Matt T. Muckle, Daniel P. Zaleski, Brooks H. Pate and Stephen G. Kukolich, J Chem. Phys., 135(15), DOI: 154304/1-154304/12 (2011)