#publications

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...

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...

Newly discovered non-singlet oxygen kinetic solvent isotope effects

Caroline Davis has a new paper in Environmental Science & Technology on the newly discovered non-singlet oxygen kinetic solvent isotope...

New probe for triplet-state dissolved organic matter reactivity

Kyle Moor recently published a paper in Environmental Science & Technology on using singlet oxygen phosphorescence as a probe for...

Direct photochemical degradation of extracellular enzymes

Christine Egli has a new paper in in Environmental Science & Technology on photochemically induced site-specific damage in aquatic...

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The McNeill Research Group studies environmental chemistry in aquatic systems, with a focus on elucidating reaction mechanisms. Currently the group is studying photochemical processes in surface waters, the degradation of pharmaceutical and personal care product contaminants, the fate of amino acid-based molecules in natural systems and degradation of synthetic plastics in soil. The McNeill Group is part of the Environmental Chemistry Group in the Institute for Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics in the Department of Environmental Systems Science at ETH Zurich.

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