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Samuel Leutwyler

Samuel Leutwyler

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Chemistry

D-Index
64
Citations
11701
World Ranking
8207
National Ranking
170

Overview

Samuel Leutwyler is affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland, where their research focuses on topics intersecting physics, chemistry, and molecular biology.

The main fields of study covered in Leutwyler's work include Physics and Astronomy, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Chemistry. Their research spans specialized subfields such as Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics; Molecular Biology; Ecology; Spectroscopy; and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry.

Frequent publication venues for Leutwyler's research are:

  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • Annual Review of Physical Chemistry
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics

Leutwyler's recent papers include:

  • Locating Cytosine Conical Intersections by Laser Experiments and Ab Initio Calculations (2020), published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • Benchmark Experimental Gas-Phase Intermolecular Dissociation Energies by the SEP-R2PI Method (2020), published in Annual Review of Physical Chemistry
  • Intermolecular dissociation energies of 1-naphthol complexes with large dispersion-energy donors: Decalins and adamantane (2020), published in The Journal of Chemical Physics

The main topics covered in Leutwyler's body of work encompass:

  • Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
  • DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Molecular Spectroscopy and Structure
  • Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
  • Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies

Frequent collaborators in Leutwyler's research include Richard Knochenmuss, Rajeev K. Sinha, Maria A. Trachsel, Susan Blaser, and Simon Lobsiger.

Best Publications

  • Probing the threshold to H atom transfer along a hydrogen-bonded ammonia wire.

    Christian Tanner;Carine Manca;Samuel Leutwyler

  • Intermolecular bonding and vibrations of phenol⋅H2O (D2O)

    Martin Schütz;Thomas Bürgi;Samuel Leutwyler;Thomas Fischer

  • Benchmarks for 0–0 transitions of aromatic organic molecules: DFT/B3LYP, ADC(2), CC2, SOS-CC2 and SCS-CC2 compared to high-resolution gas-phase data

    Nina O. C. Winter;Nora K. Graf;Samuel Leutwyler;Christof Hättig

  • Rare-gas solvent clusters: spectra, structures, and order-disorder transitions

    Samuel Leutwyler;Juerg Boesiger

  • Intramolecular vibrations of small water clusters

    Evi Honegger;Samuel Leutwyler

  • The adsorption of rare-gas atoms on microsurfaces of large aromatic molecules

    Samuel. Leutwyler;Joshua. Jortner

  • On Metal‐Atom Clusters IV. Photoionization thresholds and multiphoton ionization spectra of alkali‐metal molecules

    André Herrmann;Samuel Leutwyler;Ernst Schumacher;Ludger Wöste

  • An experimental and computational study on intramolecular charge transfer: a tetrathiafulvalene-fused dipyridophenazine molecule.

    Chunyang Jia;Chunyang Jia;Shi-Xia Liu;Christian Tanner;Claudia Leiggener

  • Structures and vibrational spectra of water clusters in the self-consistent-field approximation

    R. Knochenmuss;S. Leutwyler

  • Proton transfer from 1-naphthol to water: Small clusters to the bulk

    Richard Knochenmuss;Samuel Leutwyler

  • An ab initio derived torsional potential energy surface for (H2O)3. II. Benchmark studies and interaction energies

    Wim Klopper;Martin Schütz;Hans P. Lüthi;Samuel Leutwyler

  • Proton transfer in neutral gas‐phase clusters: α‐Naphthol⋅(NH3)n

    Ori Cheshnovsky;Samuel Leutwyler

  • Optical spectroscopy of Na3 by two-photon ionization in a supersonic molecular beam

    André Herrmann;Manfred Hofmann;Samuel Leutwyler;Ernst Schumacher

  • Fluxionality and low‐lying transition structures of the water trimer

    Martin Schütz;Thomas Bürgi;Samuel Leutwyler;Hans Beat Bürgi

  • Accurate hydrogen-bonding energies between 1-naphthol and water, methanol and ammonia

    Thomas Bürgi;Thierry Droz;Samuel Leutwyler

  • Energetics and dynamics of large Van der Waals molecules

    Uzi Even;Aviv Amirav;Samuel Leutwyler;Mary Jo Ondrechen

  • Proton transfer reactions in neutral gas-phase clusters: 1-Naphthol with H2O, D2O, CH3OH, NH3 and piperidine

    Richard Knochenmuss;Ori Cheshnovsky;Samuel Leutwyler

  • Water hexamer clusters: Structures, energies, and predicted mid-infrared spectra

    Martin Losada;Samuel Leutwyler

  • Low‐lying stationary points and torsional interconversions of cyclic (H2O)4: An ab initio study

    Martin Schütz;Wim Klopper;Hans‐Peter Lüthi;Samuel Leutwyler

  • Multiphoton ionization: mass selective laser-spectroscopy of Na2 and K2 in molecular beams

    A. Herrmann;S. Leutwyler;E. Schumacher;L. Wöste

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Bürgi
Thomas Bürgi University of Geneva
Silvio Decurtins
Silvio Decurtins University of Bern
Uzi Even
Uzi Even Tel Aviv University
Martin Schütz
Martin Schütz University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Wim Klopper
Wim Klopper Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
John P. Maier
John P. Maier University of Basel
Joshua Jortner
Joshua Jortner Tel Aviv University
Zlatko Bačić
Zlatko Bačić New York University
Antonia Neels
Antonia Neels Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
Horst Köppel
Horst Köppel Heidelberg University

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