Contact Information
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Box 92-6, CLSL
600 S. Mathews Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801
Additional Campus Affiliations
Research Associate Professor, Chemistry
Recent Publications
Woon, D. E. (2026). Quantum Chemical Modeling of Astrophysical Ice Mantle Reactions of C+with Ammonia, Cyanamide, Formamide, Hydroxylamine, and Carbamic Acid. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, 10(2), 480-489. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.5c00293
Acharyya, K., Woon, D. E., & Herbst, E. (2024). Formation of Sodium-bearing species in the interstellar medium. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527(2), 1722-1732. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad3262
Woon, D. E. (2024). Benchmarking Time-dependent Density Functional Theory for the prediction of electronic absorption spectra of amorphous ices for astrochemical applications. Molecular Physics, 122(7-8), Article e2254419. https://doi.org/10.1080/00268976.2023.2254419
Woon, D. E. (2024). Formation of hydroxide anions in amorphous astrophysical ices and recombination with protons: a quantum chemical study. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527(1), 1357-1363. Article stad3242. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad3242
Woon, D. E. (2022). Icy Grain Mantle Surface Astrochemistry of MgNC: The Emergence of Metal Ion Catalysis Studied via Model Ice Cluster Calculations. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 126(31), 5186-5194. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.2c01739