Alessandro and Taylor successfully defended their PhD thesis
October 2019 was a memorable month for the McNeill group. Not less than two PhD students defended their work. On October 23th, Alessandro...
Christine successfully defended her PhD thesis
Christine Egli successfully defended her PhD thesis on "Assessing the stability of aquatic extracellular enzymes" at Eawag where she...
Exploring the photodegradation of pyrroles
Jennifer Apell has recently published a paper in Environmental Science & Technology exploring the photodegradation of the pesticide...
Can we predict indirect photochemical reactions?
Rachele Ossola recently published her master thesis work on the competing reactivity of singlet oxygen (1O2) and triplet chromophoric...
Photochemical product of steroid hormone with novel hexacyclic ring system
While studying the environmental fate of potent endocrine-active steroid hormones, we observed the formation of an intramolecular [2+2]...
A deeper understanding of the triplet probe sorbic acid
Kyle Moor and Markus Schmitt published a set of papers in Environmental Science & Technology on sorbic acid as a probe for...
Markus and Caroline successfully defended their PhD thesis
Within less than two weeks our group celebrated two successful defenses. Markus Schmitt presented his work on "Characterizing organic...
N-cyclopropylanilines to probe oxidative properties of triplet-state photosensitizers
We have developed a set of N-cyclopropylaniline (CPA) analogs to probe the oxidative properties of triplet-state photosensitizers in...
Updated and validated solar spectrum irradiance values
Jennifer Apell has a new paper in Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts providing updated values for spectral irradiance that can be...
Addressing singlet oxygen reactivity of environmentally relevant NRPs
Alessandro Manfrin published a paper in The Journal of Organic Chemistry on the singlet oxygen reactivity of oxazoles and thiazoles...