A.B. 1956 - University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D. 1960 - Princeton University

Physical Chemistry

Research

Professor Illinger's work was in the areas of intermolecular forces and collisional perturbation of molecular spectra; experimental infrared spectroscopy, with applications to environmental chemistry; experimental measurement of absolute infrared intensities and structural correlations of this and other molecular properties employing ab initio quantum-mechanical calculations.

 

Selected Publications

 

S. Tai, K. H. Illinger and S. Papasavva, "Infrared Intensities, Atomic Charges, and Dipole Moments in the Fluoroethane Series using Atomic Polar Tensor Analysis," J. Phys. Chem. A 101, 9749, (1997).

S. Papasavva, K. H. Illinger, J. E. Kenny, "Molecular Properties of CFC Substitutes from ab initio Calculations: CFCl₂CH₃, CF₂ClCH₃, CHCl₂CF₃, and CHFClCH₃," J. Mol. Struct. (Theochem), 393, 73, (1997).

S. Papasavva, S. Tai, K. H. Illinger, and J. E. Kenny, "Infrared Radiative Forcing of CFC Substitutes and their Atmospheric Reaction Products," J. Geophys. Res., 102, 13643, (1997).

S. Papasavva, K. H. Illinger, and J. E. Kenny, "Ab Initio Calculations on Fluoroethanes: Geometries, Dipole Moments, Vibrational Frequencies, and Infrared Intensities," J. Phys. Chem., 100, 10100, (1996).

 S. Papasavva, S. Tai, A. Esslinger, K. H. Illinger, and J. E. Kenny, "Ab Initio Calculations of Vibrational Frequencies and Infrared Intensities for Global Warming Potentials of CFC Substitutes: CF₃CH₂F (HFC-134a)", J. Phys. Chem. 99, 3438 (1995).