Curt Wittig

Research.com Recognitions

• 2004 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• 2000 - Bourke Award, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)
• 1993 - Herbert P. Broida Prize, American Physical Society
• 1984 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For landmark advances toward the development of a deep,detailed understanding of the mechanisms and dynamics of elementary molecular processes

Overview

Best Publications

• The Landau-Zener formula.

  Curt Wittig

  330
  Citations

• A nomenclature for Λ‐doublet levels in rotating linear molecules

  M. H. Alexander;P. Andresen;R. Bacis;R. Bersohn

  249
  Citations

• The 266 nm photolysis of ICN: Recoil velocity anisotropies and nascent E,V,R,T excitations for the CN+I(2P3/2) and CN+I(2P1/2) channels

  I. Nadler;D. Mahgerefteh;H. Reisler;C. Wittig

  226
  Citations

• Nascent product excitations in unimolecular reactions: The separate statistical ensembles method

  C. Wittig;I. Nadler;H. Reisler;M. Noble

  195
  Citations

• Photoinitiated reactions in weakly bonded complexes

  C. Wittig;S. Sharpe;R. A. Beaudet

  176
  Citations

• Kinetic and internal energy distributions via velocity‐aligned Doppler spectroscopy: The 193 nm photodissociation of H2S and HBr

  Z. Xu;B. Koplitz;C. Wittig

  159
  Citations

• The use of van der Waals forces to orient chemical reactants: The H+CO2 reaction

  S. Buelow;G. Radhakrishnan;J. Catanzarite;C. Wittig

  158
  Citations

• Probing the NO2→NO+O transition state via time resolved unimolecular decomposition

  S. I. Ionov;G. A. Brucker;C. Jaques;Y. Chen

  149
  Citations

• Orienting reactants using van der Waals precursors: OCO ⋅ HBr+hν → {OCO ← H}+Br → CO+OH+Br

  G. Radhakrishnan;S. Buelow;C. Wittig

  141
  Citations

• Kinetics of free radicals generated by IR laser photolysis. IV. Intersystem crossings and reactions of C2(X 1Σ+g) and C2(a 3Πu) in the gaseous phase

  H. Reisler;M. S. Mangir;C. Wittig

  125
  Citations

• Photo-Initiated Unimolecular Reactions

  and H Reisler;C Wittig

  124
  Citations

• NCNO --> CN+NO: Complete NO(E, V, R) and CN(V, R) nascent population distributions from well-characterized monoenergetic unimolecular reactions

  C. X. W. Qian;M. Noble;I. Nadler;H. Reisler

  120
  Citations

• Subpicosecond resolution studies of the H+CO2→CO+OH reaction photoinitiated in CO2–HI complexes

  S. I. Ionov;G. A. Brucker;C. Jaques;L. Valachovic

  114
  Citations

• Infrared molecular lasers pumped by electronic‐vibrational energy transfer from Br(42P1/2): CO2, N2O, HCN, and C2H2

  Alan B. Petersen;Curt Wittig;Stephen R. Leone

  113
  Citations

• The role of initial conditions in elementary gas-phase processes involving intermediate "complexes"

  S. Buelow;M. Noble;G. Radhakrishnan;H. Reisler

  113
  Citations

• HNCO + h.nu.(193.3 nm) .fwdarw. H + NCO: Center-of-Mass Translational Energy Distribution, Reaction Dynamics, and D0(H-NCO)

  Jingsong Zhang;Michael Dulligan;Curt Wittig

  113
  Citations

• CF4 and NOCl molecular lasers operating in the 16‐μm region

  Joe J. Tiee;Curt Wittig

  111
  Citations

• The kinetics of free radicals generated by IR laser photolysis. I. Reactions of C2(a 3Πu) with NO, vinyl cyanide, and ethylene

  H. Reisler;M. Mangir;C. Wittig

  111
  Citations

• Infrared absorption spectroscopy of CO2–HX complexes using the CO2 asymmetric stretch chromophore: CO2HF(DF) and CO2HCl(DCl) linear and CO2HBr bent equilibrium geometries

  S. W. Sharpe;Y. P. Zeng;C. Wittig;R. A. Beaudet

  110
  Citations

• The kinetics of free radicals generated by IR laser photolysis. II. Reactions of C2(X 1Σ+g), C2(a 3Πu), C3(X̄ 1Σ+g) and CN(X 2Σ+) with O2

  H. Reisler;M. Mangir;C. Wittig

  109
  Citations