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
Woon, D. E. (2025). Implementing Orbital Coupling Diagrams in Physical Chemistry Courses: A Glyph-Based Iconography for Atoms, Bonding, and Molecules. In D. E. Gardner, G. Y. Stokes, A. R. McDonald, C. M. Teague, & E. S. Thrall (Eds.), Engaging Students in Physical Chemistry, Volume 2 (pp. 441-466). (ACS Symposium Series; Vol. 1515). American Chemical Society. https://doi.org/10.1021/bk-2025-1515.ch024
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