Anderson Marsh
Vernon and Doris Bishop Professor of Chemistry
Director of Chemistry Engineering Track
- Thomas Rhys Vickroy Distinguished Teaching Award, Lebanon 芭乐视频官网 College, 2013
- E. Emmet Reid Award in Chemistry Teaching at Small Colleges, ACS Middle Atlantic, 2013
- 2019 ACS Physical Chemistry Exam Committee
Many of the reactions that take place in an industrial setting or out in the environment occur at interfaces. Our work is focused on understanding how the structure of solid surfaces affects their reactivity for the removal of pollutants from wastewater using nanomaterials, during catalysis for environmentally friendly processes, in the interaction of nanomaterials with environmental systems, and in the photochemistry of small molecules on ice films. We prepare materials with selected surface structures and characterize them using microscopy and spectroscopy. We then use these materials in reaction studies. Our end goal is to correlate surface properties with reactivity to design materials that result in a positive impact on our environment.
Publications
undergraduate co-authors denoted with *
Marsh, A. L. Using NMR Spectroscopy to Elucidate the Effect of Substituents on Keto-Enol Equilibria. In NMR Spectroscopy in the Undergraduate Curriculum; Soulsby, D., Anna, L. J., Wallner, A. S., Eds.; ACS Symposium Series 1128; American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 2013; pp 205鈥210.
*Weilnau, J. N.; *Black, S. E.; *Chehata, V. J.;听听*Schmidt, M. P.; *Holt, K. L.; *Carl, L. M.; *Straka, C. J.; Marsh, A. L.; Patton, W. A.; Lappas, C. M.听听ZnS Nanocrystal Cytotoxicity Is Influenced by Capping Agent Chemical Structure and Duration of Time in Suspension. J. Appl. Toxicol. 2013, 33, 227鈥237.
*Manbeck, K. A.; *Boaz, N. C.; *Bair, N. C.; *Sanders, A. M. S.; Marsh, A. L. Substituent Effects on Keto-Enol Equilibria Using NMR Spectroscopy. J. Chem. Educ. 2011, 88, 1444鈥1445; 2012, 89, 421.
*Musselwhite, N. E.; *Wagner, S. B.; *Manbeck, K. A.; *Carl, L. M.; *Gross, K. M.; Marsh, A. L. Activity and Selectivity of Colloidal Platinum Nanocatalysts for Aqueous Phase Cyclohexenone Hydrogenation. Appl. Catal., A 2011, 402, 104鈥109.
*Lyons, O. D.; *Musselwhite, N. E.; *Carl, L. M.; *Manbeck, K. A.; Marsh, A. L. Synthesis, Characterization, and Reaction Studies of a PVP-Capped Platinum Nanocatalyst Immobilized on Silica. Langmuir 2010, 26, 16481鈥16485.
*Manbeck, K. A.; *Musselwhite, N. E.; *Carl, L. M.; *Kauffman, C. A.; *Lyons, O. D.; *Navin, J. K.; Marsh, A. L. Factors Affecting Activity and Selectivity during Cyclohexanone Hydrogenation with Colloidal Platinum Nanocatalysts. Appl. Catal., A 2010, 384, 58鈥64.
*Kauffman, C.A.; *Muza, A. M.; *Porambo, M. W.; Marsh, A. L. Use of a Commercial Silver-Silver Chloride Electrode for the Measurement of Cell Potentials to Determine Mean Ionic Activity Co芭乐视频官网s. Chem. Educator 2010, 15, 178鈥180.
*Porambo, M. W.; *Howard, H. R.; Marsh, A. L. Dopant Effects on the Photocatalytic Activity of Colloidal Zinc Sulfide Semiconductor Nanocrystals for the Oxidation of 2-Chlorophenol. J. Phys. Chem. C 2010, 114, 1580鈥1585.
*Gordon, T. R.; Marsh, A. L. Temperature Dependence of the Oxidation of 2-Chlorophenol by Hydrogen Peroxide in the Presence of Goethite. Catal. Lett. 2009, 132, 349鈥354.
*Porambo, M. W.; Marsh, A. L. Synthesis and Photoluminescent Properties of Doped ZnS Nanocrystals Capped by Poly(vinylpyrrolidone). Opt. Mater. 2009, 31, 1631鈥1635.
*Navin, J. K.; Grass, M.; Somorjai, G. A.; Marsh, A. L. Characterization of Colloidal Platinum Nanoparticles by MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry. Anal. Chem. 2009, 81, 6295鈥6299.
Presentations
鈥淒evelopment of a gold nanoparticle sensor for detection of lead ions in drinking water,鈥 Hannah Valvo 鈥27, M. Rasmussen, A. Marsh. Presentation, , Hershey, Pa., May 19, 2026.
鈥淐omputational and spectroscopic studies of substituent effects on vibrational modes of pyridine in metal coordination complexes,鈥 A. Marsh, Marcus Johnson 鈥27. Presentation, , Hershey, Pa., May 17, 2026.
鈥淓ffect of capping agent size and chemical structure on silver nanoparticle catalytic activity for 4-nitrophenol production鈥 D. Correll, A. Marsh. Poster presentation in the Symposium on Nanomaterials Research at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions. ACS national conference in New Orleans, LA. March 2024.
- CHM 311/312 Physical Chemistry I and II
- CHM 321/322 Physical Laboratory I and II
- CHM 412 Advanced Physical Chemistry
- CHM 302 Environmental Chemistry
- COE 217NS Revolution: The Nanotechnology Age
- FYE 111/112 First-Year Experience Seminar