Team Leader: Professor J. M. Dyke (Network Coordinator)

Organisational Experience: Coordinator of an existing EC Science Twinning programme (SCI-CT9I-0678 (TSTS)) with the University of Lisbon (Professor M. L. Costa). Head of Physical Chemistry (10 years) and Head of Chemistry in Southampton (2 years).

Research Experience: 25 years experience in studying the electronic structure of reactive intermediates using photoelectron spectroscopy and molecular electronic structure calculations. More recently this has broadened into the study of reactive intermediates with synchrotron radiation and laser spectroscopy.

Network Role: As Network coordinator the Team Leader will identify the expertise of each member of the team and determine the role of each participant in a number of common projects. Milestones associated with each project will be defined by the Network Coordinator and the sub-coordinators and the progress will be discussed at regular meetings. Expertise within the Network will be organised to address problems as they arise. The Southampton role within the project will be laser-based and synchrotron radiation studies of reactive intermediate, u.v. photoelectron spectroscopic measurements on radicals and calculations on ionic and ion- molecule reactions.

Staff Involved: Professor J. M. Dyke (4mmlyear), Dr. E. P. F. Lee (4mm/year), Dr. A. Morris (4mmlyear), J. D. Barr (4mm/year), L. Beeching (4mm/year), N. Hooper (4mm/year).

Research Links: Collaborated with the Lisbon, Amsterdam and Salisbury UK groups for approximately 10 years. The Southampton and Lisbon groups have been involved in an EC Science-Twinning program for 5 years, Southampton has been involved in joint projects with Salisbury UK for 10 years and a Southampton student has been working in Amsterdam over the last 4 years.

Laboratorv: The Southampton group has developed and built 3 uv photoelectron spectrometers, a synchrotron PES spectrometer (for use at the Daresbury Synchrotron Facility), an MPI spectrometer (with TOF mass analysis) and a ZEKE-PES instrument. The laboratory also has access to state-of the art molecular electronic structure codes.

Two Significant Recent Publications:

Research Role: As the Southampton group has particular expertise in studying reactive intermediates with uv photoelectron spectroscopy and laser spectroscopy, and performing ab initio molecular orbital calculations on cluster ions, it is expected that these will be the main activities. The main interaction will be with the Lisbon group (where molecular azides will be prepared and their decomposition pathways studied) and with the Salisbury and Garching groups (on cluster ions and their reactions, where appropriate calculations will be performed in Southampton to interpret experimental data obtained in Salisbury and Garching). Interaction with the other participants will also occur via the synchrotron p.e.s., laser multiphoton spectroscopy and ZEKE experiments performed in Southampton.