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Faculty Name:Andrea J. Minei, PhD

Designation

Associate Professor of Chemistry

Education Qualification

  • PhD, Wesleyan University
  • Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies, Pace University
  • BS, Sacred Heart University

Contact Email

andrea.minei@umsv.edu

Areas of Interest

  • Rotational (microwave) spectroscopic analysis
  • Spectroscopic identification of interstellar molecules
  • Structure and dynamics of weakly bound molecules
  • Advances in microwave spectroscopic instrumentation and technologies
  • Advances in high resolution spectroscopy pedagogy
  • Computational chemistry
  • Chemical education

Courses

  • CHEM 120 General Chemistry I
  • CHEM 121 General Chemistry II
  • CHEM 309 Physical Chemistry I
  • CHEM 310 Physical Chemistry II
  • CHEM 311 Physical Chemistry Laboratory I
  • CHEM 312 Physical Chemistry Laboratory II
  • CHEM 437 Computers, Structure, and Bonding
  • CHEM 452 Advanced Spectroscopy
  • NSCI 205 Chemistry for the Courtroom

Professional Affiliations

  • American Chemical Society
  • American Physical Society
  • Delta Sigma Epsilon
  • Gamma Sigma Epsilon
  • National Science Teachers Association
  • Pi Lambda Theta
  • Science Teachers Association of New York State
  • Sigma Xi

Publications

  • Minei, A.J. and Cooke, S. A., “Evaluation of the Substitution Structures of Two Partially Fluorinated Cyclopentanes C5H3F7 and C5H2F8”, Journal of Molecular Structure, 1207, 127778, (2020)
  • Peterson, K.I., Pullman, D.P., Lin, W., Minei, A.J., Arsenault, E.A., and Novick, S.E., “Structure and Dynamics of the Methane-Propane van der Waals Complex”, Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 123, 25, (2019)
  • Minei, A. J. and Cooke, S.A., “The Pure Rotational Spectrum of 1,1,2,2,3-Pentafluorocyclobutane and Applications of Singular Value Decomposition Signal Processing”, Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy, 306, 37-41, (2014)
  • Minei, A. J., Lin, W., Brooks, A., Novick, S. E., and Pringle, W. C.,  “Microwave Spectra and Structure of the Argon-Cyclopentanone and Neon-Cyclopentanone van der Waals Complexes”, Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 118, 856-861, (2014)
  • Minei, A. J. and Cooke, S.A., “Singular Value Decomposition Based Broadband Microwave Spectroscopy of 1H,2H-perfluorocyclobutane”, Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy, 283, 1-6, (2013)
  • Minei, A. J. and Cooke, S.A., “Are the CF3 Groups in 2,2-bis(trifluoromethyl)oxirane Eclipsed or Staggered? Insights from Rotational Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Calculations”, Chemical Physics Letters, 535, 35-39, (2012)
  • Minei, A. J., Wijngaarden, J. V., Novick, S. E., and Pringle, W. C., “Determination of the Structure of Cyclopentene Oxide and the Argon-Cyclopentene Oxide van der Waals Complex”, Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 114, 1427-1431, (2010)
  • Minei, A. J., Kang, L., Sunahori, F. X., Clouthier, D. J., and Novick, S. E., “Fourier Transform Microwave Spectroscopy of Monobromogermylene (HGeBr and DGeBr), A Heavy Atom Carbene Analog”, Journal of Chemical Physics, 130, 124317/1-124317/11, (2009)
  • Minei, A. J., Lin, W., Ganguly, A., Lindeke, G. L., Pringle, W. C., Novick, S. E., and Durig, J. R., “Microwave Spectra and Structural Parameters of Equatorial-trans Cyclobutanol”, Journal of Molecular Structure, 922, 83-87, (2009)
  • Minei, A. J., Walker, N. R., Novick, S. E., and Legon, A. C., “Microwave Spectrum and Structure of the Polar N2O Dimer”, Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy, 251, 153-158, (2008)
  • Minei, A. J., Peterson, K. I., Pullman, D., Lin, W., and Novick, S. E., “Microwave Spectra and ab initio Studies of Ar-Propane and Ne-Propane Complexes”, Journal of Chemical Physics, 127(18), 184306/1-184306/11, (2007)
  • Minei, A. J., Munrow, M. R., Subramanian, R., Antic, D., MacLeod, M. K., Michl, J., Crespo, R., Piqueras, M. C., Izuha, M., Ito, T., Tatamitani, Y., Yamour, K., Ogata, T., and Novick, S. E., “Rotational Spectra of Gauche Perfluoro-n-butane, C4F10; Perfluoro-iso-butane, (CF3)3CF; and tris(trifluormethyl)methane, (CF3)3CH”, Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy, 242(2), 129-138, (2007)
  • Minei, A. J. and Novick, S. E., “Microwave Observation of the ‘Recently Found’ Polar OCS Dimer”, Journal of Chemical Physics, 126(10), 101101/1-101101/3, (2007)
  • Minei, A. J., Kang, L., and Novick, S. E., “The Microwave Spectrum of Cyanophosphaacetlyene, H2PCCCN,” Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy, 240(2), 255-259, (2006)