James Donaldson

James Donaldson attended Carleton University in Ottawa, where he obtained a B.S. degree in 1979 and Ph.D. degree in 1984. His thesis work involved both experimental and quantum chemical investigations of reaction dynamics in gas phase atom + radical systems. He carried out postdoctoral work on photodissociation dynamics and energy transfer at JILA (as an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow) and on molecular spectroscopy in free jet expansions in the Chemistry Department, both at the University of Colorado. He joined the University of Toronto in 1988 as an NSERC University Research Fellow and is now a Professor of chemistry. His research interests have included photodissociation and bimolecular reaction dynamics (especially the role played by the local environment), chemistry in molecular clusters, spectroscopy of reacting species, and molecular energy transfer. His current research focuses on the kinetics and dynamics of interfacial reaction of atmospheric importance, overtone-initiated chemistry, and the nature of the air-ice interface.

Biography Updated on 8 January 2008

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Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Assessing the importance of heterogeneous reactions of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the urban atmosphere using the Multimedia Urban Model
    Atmospheric Environment, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 37–50, 2007
  2. Photochemical Loss of Nitric Acid on Organic Films: a Possible Recycling Mechanism for NOx
    Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 41, no. 11, pp. 3898–3903, 2007
  3. Photolysis of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons on Water and Ice Surfaces
    Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 111, no. 7, pp. 1277–1285, 2007
  4. Direct Experimental Evidence for a Heterogeneous Reaction of Ozone with Bromide at the Air-Aqueous Interface
    Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 111, no. 39, pp. 9809–9814, 2007
  5. Spectroscopic Probes of the Quasi-Liquid Layer on Ice
    Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 111, no. 43, pp. 11006–11012, 2007
  6. Role of the Aerosol Substrate in the Heterogeneous Ozonation Reactions of Surface-Bound PAHs
    Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 111, no. 43, pp. 11050–11058, 2007
  7. Suppression of aqueous surface hydrolysis by monolayers of short chain organic amphiphiles
    Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2007
  8. Assessing the organic composition of urban surface films using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
    Chemosphere, vol. 63, no. 1, pp. 142–152, 2006
  9. Heterogeneous ozonation kinetics of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons on organic films
    Atmospheric Environment, vol. 40, no. 19, pp. 3448–3459, 2006
  10. Chemical Reviews, vol. 106, no. 4, pp. 1445–1461, 2006
  11. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 109, no. 4, pp. 597–602, 2005
  12. Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data, vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 438–443, 2005
  13. Uptake and reaction of atmospheric organic vapours on organic films
    Faraday Discussions, vol. 130, p. 227, 2005
  14. Organic Aerosols and the Origin of Life: An Hypothesis
    Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere, vol. 34, no. 1/2, pp. 57–67, 2004
  15. Molecular polarizability as a single-parameter predictor of vapour pressures and octanol–air partitioning coefficients of non-polar compounds: a priori approach and results
    Atmospheric Environment, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 213–225, 2004
  16. Kinetics and products of the reaction of gas-phase ozone with anthracene adsorbed at the air?aqueous interface
    Atmospheric Environment, vol. 38, no. 36, pp. 6091–6103, 2004
  17. Processing of unsaturated organic acid films and aerosols by ozone
    Atmospheric Environment, vol. 37, no. 16, pp. 2207–2219, 2003
  18. Uptake of water by organic films: the dependence on the film oxidation state
    Atmospheric Environment, vol. 37, no. 25, pp. 3529–3537, 2003
  19. Chemical Reviews, vol. 103, no. 12, pp. 4717–4730, 2003
  20. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 107, no. 13, pp. 2264–2269, 2003
  21. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 107, no. 50, pp. 11038–11042, 2003
  22. Bimolecular reaction of molecular oxygen with overtone excited HOOH: Implications for recycling HO2 in the atmosphere
    Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol. 5, no. 15, p. 3183, 2003
  23. Photolysis of Sulfuric Acid Vapor by Visible Solar Radiation
    Science, vol. 299, no. 5612, pp. 1566–1568, 2003
  24. Laser induced fluorescence of pyrene at an organic coated air???water interface
    Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol. 4, no. 17, pp. 4186–4191, 2002
  25. Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 237–245, 2002
  26. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 106, no. 6, pp. 982–987, 2002
  27. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 106, no. 13, pp. 3185–3190, 2002
  28. Overtone-Induced Reactions on the HO2NO2 Potential Surface
    Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 106, no. 12, pp. 3023–3028, 2002
  29. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 106, no. 37, pp. 8651–8657, 2002
  30. Water complexes as catalysts in atmospheric reactions
    Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part C: Solar, Terrestrial & Planetary Science, vol. 26, no. 7, pp. 473–478, 2001
  31. OH production from the reaction of vibrationally excited H2 in the mesosphere
    Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 28, no. 11, pp. 2157–2160, 2001
  32. Activation barrier for multicomponent droplet formation on partially soluble nuclei
    Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 106, no. D13, pp. 14447–14464, 2001
  33. Ab initio investigation of water complexes of some atmospherically important acids: HONO, HNO3 and HO2NO2
    Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol. 3, no. 11, pp. 1999–2006, 2001
  34. Spontaneous fission of atmospheric aerosol particles
    Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol. 3, no. 23, pp. 5270–5273, 2001
  35. Thermodynamics of heterogeneous multicomponent condensation on mixed nuclei
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 113, no. 16, p. 6822, 2000
  36. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 104, no. 46, pp. 10789–10793, 2000
  37. Some speculations on the role of excited electronic states in nitrogen-oxygen atmospheric chemistry
    Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part C: Solar, Terrestrial & Planetary Science, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 183–188, 2000
  38. Enhancement of HOX at high solar zenith angles by overtone-induced dissociation of HNO3 and HNO4
    Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part C: Solar, Terrestrial & Planetary Science, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 223–227, 2000
  39. OH overtone spectra and intensities of pernitric acid
    Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 311, no. 3-4, pp. 131–138, 1999
  40. Does molecular HNO3 adsorb onto sulfuric acid droplet surfaces?
    Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 26, no. 24, pp. 3625–3628, 1999
  41. Twilight Observations Suggest Unknown Sources of HO
    Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 26, no. 10, pp. 1373–1376, 1999
  42. Thermodynamics of heterogeneous binary condensation on insoluble nuclei
    Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 104, no. D12, pp. 14283–14292, 1999
  43. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 103, no. 1, pp. 62–70, 1999
  44. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 103, no. 7, pp. 871–876, 1999
  45. Inelastic scattering of atoms and molecules from liquid crystal surfaces
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 110, no. 16, p. 8098, 1999
  46. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 102, no. 24, pp. 4638–4642, 1998
  47. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 102, no. 27, pp. 5171–5174, 1998
  48. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 101, no. 26, pp. 4717–4725, 1997
  49. Atmospheric radical production by excitation of vibrational overtones
    Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 24, no. 21, pp. 2651–2654, 1997
  50. Photodissociation of acrylonitrile at 193 nm: the CN-producing channel
    Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 249, no. 1-2, pp. 40–45, 1996
  51. Photophysics and photochemistry of I2 (D, D') in rare gas clusters
    Chemical Physics, vol. 211, no. 1-3, pp. 377–386, 1996
  52. Surface-Mediated Disorder in Aligned Liquid Crystal Films Caused by Collisions with He
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 77, no. 2, pp. 310–313, 1996
  53. Scattering of gases from aligned liquid crystals: Collision-induced loss of order at the gas–liquid interface
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 105, no. 21, p. 9574, 1996
  54. Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 99, no. 18, pp. 6763–6766, 1995
  55. Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 99, no. 23, pp. 9313–9315, 1995
  56. Photooxidation of CS
    Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 22, no. 19, p. 2609, 1995
  57. Laboratory simulation of polar stratospheric clouds
    Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 21, no. 5, pp. 373–376, 1994
  58. Two primary product channels in OClO photodissociation near 360 nm
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 101, no. 11, p. 9565, 1994
  59. Photochemistry of alkyl halide dimers
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 98, no. 6, p. 4700, 1993
  60. Mode-specific chemical branching ratios in the photodissociation of OClO
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 99, no. 4, p. 3129, 1993
  61. Cluster-induced photochemistry of CH3I at 248 nm
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 97, no. 1, p. 189, 1992
  62. Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 96, no. 1, pp. 19–21, 1992
  63. Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 95, no. 6, pp. 2113–2115, 1991
  64. Product energy disposal in the nonadiabatic reaction S(1D)+CS2?S2 (X?3S-g)+CS (X?1S+)
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 95, no. 3, p. 1738, 1991
  65. Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 94, no. 19, pp. 7740–7741, 1990
  66. Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 94, no. 26, pp. 8918–8921, 1990
  67. Spectroscopic and photochemical perturbations of weak interactions on electronic surfaces of methyl iodide
    Journal of the Chemical Society, Faraday Transactions, vol. 86, no. 11, p. 2043, 1990
  68. Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 93, no. 2, pp. 506–508, 1989
  69. Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 93, no. 2, pp. 513–520, 1989
  70. Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 92, no. 5, pp. 1204–1208, 1988
  71. Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 92, no. 10, pp. 2762–2766, 1988
  72. Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 92, no. 10, pp. 2766–2769, 1988
  73. Spectroscopy of the (no-3s) Rydberg state of isolated and clustered acetaldehyde
    Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 92, no. 19, pp. 5514–5517, 1988
  74. Surface crossings and predissociation dynamics of methyl iodide Rydberg states
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 88, no. 12, p. 7410, 1988
  75. Ultraviolet absorption spectroscopy of dissociating molecules: Effects of cluster formation on the photodissociation of CH3I
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 87, no. 5, p. 2522, 1987
  76. Photofragmentation dynamics of acetone of 193 nm: State distributions of the CH3 and CO fragments by time- and wavelength-resolved infrared emission
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 85, no. 2, p. 817, 1986
  77. Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 90, no. 5, pp. 936–941, 1986
  78. Energy partitioning in atom–radical reactions: The reaction of F atoms with NH2
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 82, no. 10, p. 4524, 1985
  79. A two-laser pulse-and-probe study of T-R, V energy transfer collisions of H+NO at 0.95 and 2.2 eV
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 83, no. 2, p. 660, 1985
  80. The reaction between oxygen and vinyl radicals
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 77, no. 9, p. 4777, 1982
  81. Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 83, no. 24, pp. 3130–3135, 1979