Lynn Vogel Koplitz, Ph.D.

Professor of Chemistry

Phone: (504)865-3274

Office: Monroe Hall 427

Lab: Monroe Hall 417

email: koplitz@loyno.edu

Education
Ph.D., Chemistry, Princeton University, 1986
M.A., Chemistry, Princeton University, 1983

B.S., Chemistry, summa cum laude, Muhlenberg College, 1981

Honors & Awards
Vicknair Chair, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, 2008
Marquette Faculty Fellow, 2007
Dux Academicus, 2006

Honors Professor of the Year, 2005

University Senate Community Service Award, 2005

Loyola University Student Alumni Association Award, 1993

Director's Post-Doc, Los Alamos National Lab, 1986 (declined)

Phi Beta Kappa, inducted 1981

Research Interests
Physical chemistry, especially spectroscopy, with applications to materials science, environmental studies, geochemistry, and photochemistry;  hydrogen bonding in cyanomethylpyridinium salts; computational chemistry;  copper/zinc oxide surface science;  sediments and aqueous solutions of environmental and geochemical interest.

Publications (* denotes undegraduate co-authors)

“Development of a Method for Investigating Carbon Removal Processes During Photoassisted Film Growth Using Organometallic Precursors:  Application to Platinum,” John J. Cahill, Valentin G. Panayotov, Kenneth A. Cowen, Ernest Harris*, Lynn V. Koplitz, Kurt Birdwhistell, Brent Koplitz, J. Vac. Sci. Tech. A, 25(1), 104-109 (2007).

J. Krenos, J. Potenza, L.V. Koplitz and T.G. Spence. Student Study Guide and Solutions Manual for Atkin’s and Jones’s “Chemical Principles:  The Quest for Insight.” 3e.  New York:  W.H. Freeman and Co., 2005, 524 pages.

T.G. Spence and L.V. Koplitz. Instructor’s Resource Manual for Atkin’s and Jones’s “Chemical Principles:  The Quest for Insight.” 3e.  New York:  W.H. Freeman and Co., 2005, 550 pages.

“3-Cyano-N-methylpyridinium bromide,” Joel T. Mague, Ryan M. Ivie*, Robert W. Hartsock*, Lynn Vogel Koplitz, Mary Spulak*, Acta Crystallographica, E61,o851-o853 (2005).

“Atomic-Scale Properties of Low-Index ZnO Surfaces,” U. Diebold, L. Koplitz, O. Dulub, Applied Surface Science, 237, 336-342 (2004).

“STM Study of Copper Growth on ZnO(0001)-Zn and ZnO(000bar1)-O surfaces,” L.V.  Koplitz, O. Dulub, U. Diebold , Journal of  Physical Chemistry B, 107(38), 10583-10590 (2003).

“The influence of weak hydrogen bonds on the properties of 3-cyano-N-methylpyridinium chloride and iodide,” L.V. Koplitz, K.D. Bay *,

N. DiGiovanni*, J.T. Mague, Journal of Chemical Crystallography  33, 391-402 (2003).

"Impact of Industrial Effluent Diversion on Bayou Trepagnier, Louisiana," G.C. Flowers, J.N. Suhayda, J.W. Clymire, G.L. McPherson, L.V. Koplitz, M.A. Poirrier, Environmental &Engineering Geoscience, Vol. IV, No. 1, Spring 1998, pp.77-91.

"The Impact of Hurricane Andrew:  Changes in the Texture and Chemistry of Barataria Estuary Bottom Sediments," G.C. Flowers, L.V. Koplitz,

G.L. McPherson, Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, 45, 189 (1995).

"Determining Lead in Sediments by X-Ray Fluorescence and the Method of Standard Additions," L.V. Koplitz, J. Urbanik*, S. Harris*, and O. Mills, Environmental Science and Technology, 28, 538 (1994).

"Temperature Dependence of 10Dq for Aqueous Hexaaquomanganese(II)," L.V. Koplitz, K. Kim, and D.S. McClure, Inorganic Chemistry, 33, 702 (1994).

"Using Lasers to Understand and Control the Chemistry of Semiconductor-Related Precursors," B. Koplitz, V. Panayotov, K. Hamar, K. Birdwhistell, L.V. Koplitz, T.L.T. Birdwhistell, X. Xu, S. Deshmukh, and J.L. Brum, SPIE Proceedings,  1804, 79, (1992).

"Laser-driven chemical vapor deposition of platinum at atmospheric pressure and room temperature from CpPt(CH3)3," L.V. Koplitz, D.K. Shuh, Y.-J. Chen, R.S. Williams and J.I. Zink, Applied Physics Letters, 53, 1705 (1988).

"A Spectroscopic Study of Fe(II) Complexes in LiCl-DCl-D2O Solutions," L.V. Koplitz, D.S. McClure, and D.A. Crerar, Inorganic Chemistry, 26, 308 (1987).

"Vibrational and Electronic Spectroscopy of Hydrothermal Systems," M. Buback, D.A. Crerar, and L.V. Koplitz, 26 pages in Hydrothermal Experimental Techniques, H.L. Barnes and G.C. Ulmer (eds.), Wiley-Interscience, 1987, 523 pages.