Suhm, Martin - Georg-August-Universitäten Göttingen

个人简介

Martin Suhm (b. 1962 in Gengenbach, Black Forest, Germany) went to school in Portugal and studied chemistry at the University of Karlsruhe (Germany), finishing in 1985 with a diploma thesis on nuclear magnetic relaxation investigations of benzene/hexafluorobenzene interactions. After a research year with R.O. Watts at the Australian National University in Canberra (quantum Monte Carlo methods for water clusters), he joined the group of M. Quack at ETH Zürich, where he completed a Ph.D. thesis on the far infrared spectroscopy and dynamics of hydrogen fluoride dimer in 1990. During research stays with David Nesbitt at JILA in Boulder/Colorado (1991, 1992) and back at ETH, larger clusters of hydrogen fluoride were investigated both spectroscopically and theoretically, leading to a detailed understanding of the unusual clustering tendency of this molecule, which serves as a simple prototype for hydrogen bonding. After habilitation (1995, awarded with a Latsis University prize and an ADUC habilitation prize) and a Dozentenstipendium (Fonds der Chemischen Industrie, 1997), he was appointed full professor at the University of Göttingen in 1997. His research interests focus on intermolecular dynamics in systems of increasing complexity, with special emphasis on the vibrational spectroscopy of hydrogen-bonded clusters generated in supersonic jet expansions and on molecular recognition phenomena. From 2003 to 2005, he served as Dean of Studies at the Department of Chemistry.

研究领域

The main research focus of the Suhm group is on closed shell molecules in their electronic ground state, which are probed by vibrational spectroscopy while they interact with other molecules. This molecular sociology approach reveals many interesting aspects of molecular dynamics which have strong fundamental implications in biochemical recognition, materials properties and low level energy conversion. Our research is to a large extent curiosity-driven - no other motivation can beat that on the long term. Experimentally, the focus is on general spectroscopy techniques which do not require the introduction of molecular labels, which are preferentially linear to provide direct intensity information, which allow for the study of isolated molecular complexes and which can thus provide ideal benchmark data for the evaluation of modern quantum-chemical and quantum-dynamical methods. There are also activities in the characterization of more complex systems, but always through the viewing-glass of the multi-experimental reductionist. In the Zeuch sub-group, more reactive molecules, open shell systems and atmospheric processes are studied.

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Franz Kollipost, Alexandra Domanskaya, Martin A. Suhm Microscopic Roots of Alcohol-Ketone Demixing: Infrared Spectroscopy of Methanol-Acetone Clusters J. Phys. Chem. A, accepted – Markku Rasanen Festschrift doi:10.1021/jp503999b Robert Medel, Matthias Heger, and Martin A. Suhm Molecular Docking via Olefinic OH...π Interactions: A Bulky Alkene Model System and its Cooperativity J. Phys. Chem. A 119 (2015) 1723-1730 (25th Austin Symposium on Molecular Structure and Dynamics) doi:10.1021/jp508424p Julia Zischang, Dmitry Skvortsov, Myong Yong Choi, Ricardo A. Mata, Martin A. Suhm, Andrey F. Vilesov Helium Nanodroplet Study of the Hydrogen Bonded OH Vibrations in HCl-H2O Clusters J. Phys. Chem. A, accepted – Markku Rasanen Festschrift doi:10.1021/jp509683g Matthias Heger, Katharina E. Otto, Ricardo A. Mata and Martin A. Suhm Bracketing subtle conformational energy differences between self-solvated and stretched trifluoropropanol Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 17 (2015) accepted doi:10.1039/c4cp05868b