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  1. Factors influencing the catalytic oxidation of benzyl alcohol using supported phosphine-capped gold nanoparticles

    Article • Catalysis Science & Technology, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Vladimir Golovko, Professor Gregory F Metha

  2. The effect of counter ions on the far-infrared spectra of tris(triphenylphosphinegold)oxonium dimer salts

    Article • RSC Advances, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Gregory F Metha

  3. Phosphine-stabilised Au9clusters interacting with titania and silica surfaces: The first evidence for the density of states signature of the support-immobilised cluster

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, July 2014, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Vladimir Golovko, Professor Gregory F Metha

  4. Identification of the Vibrational Modes in the Far-Infrared Spectra of Ruthenium Carbonyl Clusters and the Effect of Gold Substitution

    Article • Inorganic Chemistry, May 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Vladimir Golovko, Professor Gregory F Metha

  5. Influence of Cationic Surfactants on the Formation and Surface Oxidation States of Gold Nanoparticles Produced via Laser Ablation

    Article • Langmuir, October 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Gregory F Metha

  6. Spectroscopic observation of gold-dicarbide: Photodetachment and velocity map imaging of the AuC2 anion

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, May 2013, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Gregory F Metha

  7. Chemically-synthesised, atomically-precise gold clusters deposited and activated on titania

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Vladimir Golovko, Professor Gregory F Metha, Gunther Andersson

  8. Chemically synthesised atomically precise gold clusters deposited and activated on titania. Part II

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Vladimir Golovko, Professor Gregory F Metha, Gunther Andersson

  9. Far-infrared absorption spectra of synthetically-prepared, ligated metal clusters with Au6, Au8, Au9 and Au6Pd metal cores

    Article • RSC Advances, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Vladimir Golovko, Professor Gregory F Metha

  10. Facile Decarboxylation of Propiolic Acid on a Ruthenium Center and Related Chemistry

    Article • Organometallics, August 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Gregory F Metha

  11. Reactions of Nb2 and Nb3 with CO, D2, N2, and O2: Reconciling experimental kinetics with density functional theory-calculated reaction profiles

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, July 2012, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Gregory F Metha

  12. Molecular Structure of 3-Aminopropyltriethoxysilane Layers Formed on Silanol-Terminated Silicon Surfaces

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, March 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Gregory F Metha

  13. Influence of Surfactant Concentration on Laser-Based Gold Nanoparticle Formation and Stability

    Article • Australian Journal of Chemistry, January 2012, CSIRO Publishing

    Professor Gregory F Metha

  14. Photoreduction Kinetics of Sodium Tetrachloroaurate under Synchrotron Soft X-ray Exposure

    Article • Langmuir, July 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Gregory F Metha

  15. A Density Functional Theory Investigation of the Bimetallic Clusters Nb2Rh and NbRh2 and the Complexes They Form with CO

    Article • Australian Journal of Chemistry, January 2011, CSIRO Publishing

    Professor Gregory F Metha

  16. Laser-Based Formation and Properties of Gold Nanoparticles in Aqueous Solution: Formation Kinetics and Surfactant-Modified Particle Size Distributions †

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, September 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Gregory F Metha

  17. Density functional theory investigation of Cu(I)- and Cu(II)-curcumin complexes

    Article • Journal of Computational Chemistry, August 2010, Wiley

    Professor Gregory F Metha

  18. Onset of Carbon−Carbon Bonding in Ta 5 C y ( y = 0−6) Clusters: A Threshold Photoionization and Density Functional Theory Study

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, April 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Gregory F Metha

  19. Excited states of Nb3N2 and Nb3C2: Density functional theory, CASSCF, and MRCI studies

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, April 2009, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Gregory F Metha

  20. Photoionization efficiency spectroscopy and density functional theory investigations of RhHo2On (n=0–2) clusters

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, April 2009, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Gregory F Metha

  21. Kick: Constraining a stochastic search procedure with molecular fragments

    Article • Journal of Computational Chemistry, January 2009, Wiley

    Professor Gregory F Metha

  22. Onset of carbon–carbon bonding in the Nb5Cy(y = 0–6) clusters: a threshold photo-ionisation and density functional theory study

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2009, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Gregory F Metha

  23. Regioselective control of the nickel-mediated coupling of acetylene and carbon dioxide – A DFT study

    Article • Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, August 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Gregory F Metha

  24. The Optical Spectrum of a Large Isolated Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon: Hexa- peri -hexabenzocoronene, C 42 H 18

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, June 2008, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Gregory F Metha, Dr Nigel T Lucas

  25. Threshold Photoionization and Density Functional Theory Studies of the Niobium Carbide Clusters Nb 3 C n ( n = 1−4) and Nb 4 C n ( n = 1−6)

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, June 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Gregory F Metha

  26. Associative versus dissociative binding of CO to 4d transition metal trimers: A density functional study

    Article • Journal of Computational Chemistry, January 2008, Wiley

    Professor Gregory F Metha

  27. Computational Study of CO Reactivity with Nb 3 X Heteronuclear Clusters

    Article • Australian Journal of Chemistry, January 2008, CSIRO Publishing

    Professor Gregory F Metha

  28. Production of Acrylic Acid through Nickel-Mediated Coupling of Ethylene and Carbon DioxideA DFT Study

    Article • Organometallics, December 2007, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Gregory F Metha

  29. BFW:  A Density Functional for Transition Metal Clusters

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, April 2007, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Gregory F Metha

  30. Rotational Energy Distributions of Benzene Liberated from Aqueous Liquid Microjets: A Comparison between Evaporation and Infrared Desorption

    Article • Australian Journal of Chemistry, January 2006, CSIRO Publishing

    Professor Gregory F Metha

  31. Ionization Potentials of Tantalum−Carbide Clusters:  An Experimental and Density Functional Theory Study

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, December 2005, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Gregory F Metha

  32. DFT Calculations on Group 5 Mixed Metal Tetramers: TaxNbyVz (x + y + z = 4).

    Article • ChemInform, February 2005, Wiley

    Professor Gregory F Metha

  33. The lowest-lying excited singlet and triplet electronic states of propanal: an ab initio molecular orbital investigation of the potential energy surfaces

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2004, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Gregory F Metha

  34. DFT Calculations on Group 5 Mixed Metal Tetramers: Ta x Nb y V z ( x + y + z = 4)

    Article • Australian Journal of Chemistry, January 2004, CSIRO Publishing

    Professor Gregory F Metha

  35. Infrared Laser Desorption of Hydroquinone from a Water−Ethanol Liquid Beam

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, August 2003, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Adam J Trevitt, Professor Gregory F Metha

  36. Ultraviolet Laser Irradiation of Low Concentration Liquid Microjets: Solute Evaporation and Solvent Initiated Reactivity

    Article • Australian Journal of Chemistry, January 2003, CSIRO Publishing

    Professor Gregory F Metha

  37. Near Threshold Photochemistry of Propanal. Barrier Height, Transition State Structure, and Product State Distributions for the HCO Channel

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, June 2002, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Gregory F Metha

  38. Time-of-flight mass spectrometric detection of mono- and di-substituted benzenes at parts per million concentrations by way of liquid microjet injection and laser ionisation

    Article • International Journal of Mass Spectrometry, April 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Gregory F Metha

  39. Reaction Pathways of Singlet Silylene and Singlet Germylene with Water, Methanol, Ethanol, Dimethyl Ether, and Trifluoromethanol:  An ab Initio Molecular Orbital Study

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, February 2001, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Gregory F Metha

  40. Ab initio calculations on excited states of VCH

    Article • Chemical Physics Letters, August 2000, Elsevier

    Professor Gregory F Metha

  41. Neutral Tantalum−Carbide Clusters:  A Multiphoton Ionization and Density Functional Theory Study

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, April 2000, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Gregory F Metha

  42. Photodissociation dynamics of the reaction CF2Br2+hν→CF2+ 2Br. Energetics, threshold and nascent CF2 energy distributions for λ=223–260 nm

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2000, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Gregory F Metha

  43. HCO (N,Ka,Kc,J) distributions from near-threshold photolysis of H2CO (J,Ka,Kc)

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, February 1998, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Gregory F Metha

  44. Determination of the molecular structure of diacetylene from high-resolution FTIR spectroscopy

    Article • Structural Chemistry, February 1995, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Gregory F Metha