Prof. Dr. Jürgen Stohner

Projects

• Small Chiral Molecules: Synthesis, Spectroscopy and Parity Violation / Project leader / completed

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

• Wichmann, G. et al. (2026) 'High resolution gigahertz spectroscopy of the dichlorofluorophosphane isotopomers PF35Cl2, PF35Cl37Cl, and PF37Cl2 : structure and isotopic chirality', Molecular Physics, p. 2664213. doi: 10.1080/00268976.2026.2664213.
• Albert, S. et al. (2025) 'High resolution infrared spectroscopy of monodeutero-oxirane (c-C2H3DO) and analysis of two fundamentals between 820 and 950 cm−1', Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2025(27), pp. 14240–14253. doi: 10.1039/d5cp00880h.
• Possolo, A. et al. (2024) 'A brief guide to measurement uncertainty (IUPAC Technical Report)', Pure and Applied Chemistry, 96(1), pp. 113–134. doi: 10.1515/pac-2022-1203.
• Kaiser, J., Hibbert, D. B. and Stohner, J. (2022) 'Preparation, formatting and review of IUPAC Technical Reports and Recommendations, IUPAC-sponsored books, or other items carrying the IUPAC label', Pure and Applied Chemistry, 94(11-12), pp. 1257–1267. doi: 10.1515/pac-2022-1106.
• Svoboda, V. et al. (2022) 'Femtosecond photoelectron circular dichroism of chemical reactions', Science Advances, 8(28), pp. 1–8. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abq2811.
• Stohner, J. (2021) 'Does exhaled aerosol increase with COVID-19 infection correlate with body mass index-years?', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(27), p. e2106088118. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2106088118.
• Fehre, K. et al. (2021) 'Strong differential photoion circular dichroism in strong-field ionization of chiral molecules', Physical Review Letters, 126(8), p. 083201. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.083201.
• Böselt, L. et al. (2019) 'Determination of absolute stereochemistry of flexible molecules using a vibrational circular dichroism spectra alignment algorithm', Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 59(5), pp. 1826–1838. doi: 10.1021/acs.jcim.8b00789.
• Berger, R. and Stohner, J. (2019) 'Parity violation', Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews, 9(3). doi: 10.1002/wcms.1396.
• Marquardt, R. et al. (2019) 'Quantum dynamics and spectra of the iodine atom in a strong laser field as calculated with the URIMIR package', Molecular Physics, 117(21), pp. 3132–3147. doi: 10.1080/00268976.2019.1606952.
• Marquardt, R. et al. (2018) 'Definition of the mole (IUPAC Recommendation 2017)', Pure and Applied Chemistry, 90(1), pp. 175–180. doi: 10.1515/pac-2017-0106.
• Pitzer, M. et al. (2018) 'Investigating absolute stereochemical configuration with coulomb explosion imaging', Chimia, 72(6), pp. 384–388. doi: 10.2533/chimia.2018.384.
• Fehre, K. et al. (2018) 'Absolute ion detection efficiencies of microchannel plates and funnel microchannel plates for multi-coincidence detection', Review of Scientific Instruments, 89(4), p. 45112. doi: 10.1063/1.5022564.
• Marquardt, R. et al. (2017) 'A critical review of the proposed definitions of fundamental chemical quantities and their impact on chemical communities (IUPAC Technical Report)', Pure and Applied Chemistry, 89(7), pp. 951–981. doi: 10.1515/pac-2016-0808.
• Mazenauer, M. R. et al. (2017) 'Synthetic routes for a variety of halogenated (chiral) acetic acids from diethyl malonate', RSC Advances, 7(87), pp. 55434–55440. doi: 10.1039/C7RA09727A.
• Schilling, M. and Stohner, J. (2017) 'Demodulation of multimodulation artifacts in Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy', Applied Optics, 56(14), pp. 4076–4084. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-3701.
• Pitzer, M. et al. (2016) 'Absolute configuration from different multifragmentation pathways in light-induced coulomb explosion imaging', ChemPhysChem, 17(16), pp. 2465–2472. doi: 10.1002/cphc.201501118.
• Prentner, R. et al. (2015) 'Wavepacket dynamics of the axially chiral molecule Cl-O-O-Cl under coherent radiative excitation and including parity violation', The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 119(51), pp. 12805–12822. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5b08958.
• Quack, M. and Stohner, J. (2015) 'Fixierte Konstanten : zur Definition des Mols (mol), der Masseneinheit (kg) und zur Avogadroschen Konstanten NA', Nachrichten aus der Chemie, 63(5), pp. 515–521. doi: 10.1002/nadc.201590160.
• Hobi, F., Berger, R. and Stohner, J. (2013) 'Investigation of parity violation in nuclear spin-rotation interaction of fluorooxirane', Molecular Physics, 111(14-15), pp. 2345–2362. doi: 10.1080/00268976.2013.816444.
• Pitzer, M. et al. (2013) 'Direct determination of absolute molecular stereochemistry in gas phase by coulomb explosion imaging', Science, 341(6150), pp. 1096–1100. doi: 10.1126/science.1240362.
• Quack, M., Stohner, J. and Willeke, M. (2008) 'High-resolution spectroscopic studies and theory of parity violation in chiral molecules', Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 59, pp. 741–769. doi: 10.1146/annurev.physchem.58.032806.104511.
• Quack, M. and Stohner, J. (2005) 'Parity violation in chiral molecules', Chimia, 59(7-8), pp. 530–538. doi: 10.2533/000942905777676119.
• Berger, R. et al. (2005) 'Isotopeneffekte durch Paritätsverletzung in chiralen Molekülen', Angewandte Chemie, 117(23), pp. 3689–3693. doi: 10.1002/ange.200462088.
• Stohner, J. (2004) 'Parity violating effects in the molecular anion CBrClF(-)', International Journal of Mass Spectrometry, 233(1-3), pp. 385–394. doi: 10.1016/j.ijms.2004.01.015.
• Quack, M. and Stohner, J. (2003) 'Combined multidimensional anharmonic and parity violating effects in CDBrClF', The Journal of Chemical Physics, 119(21), pp. 11228–11240. doi: 10.1063/1.1622381.
• Albert Keppler, K. et al. (2003) 'Conference report : physical methods for molecular and biomolecular structure and dynamics', Chimia, 57(10), pp. 659–666. doi: 10.2533/000942903777678777.
• Ha, T.-K., Quack, M. and Stohner, J. (2002) 'Spectroscopy and dynamics of the sp2 isolated CH chromophore in trideuteroacetaldehyde CD3CHO as derived from extrapolated SDCI ab initio surfaces', Molecular Physics, 100(11), pp. 1797–1805. doi: 10.1080/00268970210121641.
• Gottselig, M. et al. (2001) 'Mode selective stereomutation and parity violation in disulfane isotopomers H2S2, D2S2, T2S2', Helvetica Chimica Acta, 84(6), pp. 1846–1861. doi: 10.1002/1522-2675(20010613)84:6<1846::AID-HLCA1846>3.0.CO;2-F.
• Quack, M. and Stohner, J. (2001) 'Molecular chirality and the fundamental symmetries in physics : influence of parity violation on rovibrational frequencies and thermodynamic properties', Chirality, 13(10), pp. 745–753. doi: 10.1002/chir.10025.
• Quack, M., Stohner, J. and Suhm, M. (2001) 'Analytical 3-body intercation potential for hydrogen aggregates and consequences for the vibrational dynamics of (HF)n, n>=3', Journal of Molecular Structure, 599, pp. 381–425. Available at: http://www.ir.ethz.ch/preprints/MQ240_J_Mol_Struct_2001.pdf.
• Donley, E. A. et al. (2001) 'Some simple mechanisms of multiphoton excitation in many-level systems', Molecular Physics, 99(15), pp. 1275–1287. doi: 10.1080/00268970010009657.
• Berger, R., Quack, M. and Stohner, J. (2001) 'Parity violation in fluorooxirane', Angewandte Chemie: International Edition, 40(9), pp. 1667–1670. doi: 10.1002/1521-3773(20010504)40:9<1667::AID-ANIE16670>3.0.CO;2-I.
• Quack, M. and Stohner, J. (2000) 'Influence of parity violating weak nuclear potentials on vibrational and rotational frequencies in chiral molecules', Physical Review Letters, 84(17), pp. 3807–3810. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.3807.
• Pochert, J. et al. (2000) 'Ab initio calculation and spectroscopic analysis of the intramolecular vibrational redistribution in 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroiodoethane CF3CHFI', The Journal of Chemical Physics, 113(7), pp. 2719–2735. doi: 10.1063/1.1302084.
• Beil, A. et al. (2000) 'Vibrational spectra and intramolecular vibrational redistribution in highly excited deuterobromochlorofluoromethane CDBrClF : experiment and theory', The Journal of Chemical Physics, 113(7), pp. 2701–2718. doi: 10.1063/1.1302083.
• Quack, M. and Stohner, J. (2000) 'How do parity violating weak nuclear interactions influence rovibrational frequencies in chiral molecules ?', Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie, 214(5), pp. 675–703. doi: 10.1524/zpch.2000.214.5.675.
• Beil, A. et al. (1997) 'Intramolecular vibrational redistribution and unimolecular reaction : concepts and new results on the femtosecond dynamics and statistics in CHBrClF', Bunsen-Magazin, 101(3), pp. 311–328. doi: 10.1002/bbpc.19971010303.
• Quack, M. and Stohner, J. (1993) 'Femtosecond quantum dynamics of functional groups under coherent infrared multiphoton excitation as derived from the analysis of high-resolution spectra', The Journal of Physical Chemistry, 97(48), pp. 12574–12590. doi: 10.1021/j100150a020.
• Luckhaus, D., Quack, M. and Stohner, J. (1993) 'Femtosecond quantum structure, equilibration and time reversal for the CH-chromophore dynamics in CHD2F', Chemical Physics Letters, 212(5), pp. 434–443. doi: 10.1016/0009-2614(93)87225-R.
• Nguyen, M. T. et al. (1993) 'Structure and conformation of chlorosulfonylisocyanate and cyclopropylisocyanate', Journal of the Chemical Society, Faraday Transactions, 89(14), pp. 2381–2384. doi: 10.1039/FT9938902381.
• Quack, M., Stohner, J. and Suhm, M. (1993) 'Vibrational dynamics of (HF)n aggregates from an ab initio based analytical (1+2+3)-body potential', Journal of Molecular Structure, 294, pp. 33–36. doi: 10.1016/0022-2860(93)80308-I.
• Marquardt, R. et al. (1986) 'Quantum-mechanical wavepacket dynamics of the CH group in the symmetric top X3CH compounds using effective hamiltonians from high-resolution spectroscopy', Journal of the Chemical Society, Faraday Transactions II: Molecular and Chemical Physics, 82(8), pp. 1173–1187. doi: 10.1039/F29868201173.

Book chapters, peer-reviewed

• Stohner, J. and Quack, M. (2011) 'Conventions, symbols, quantities, units and constants for high-resolution molecular spectroscopy', in Quack, M. and Merkt, F. (eds) Handbook of high-resolution spectroscopy. Hoboken: Wiley, pp. 263–324. doi: 10.1002/9780470749593.hrs005.
• Stohner, J. and Quack, M. (2009) 'Education about the use of quantities, units and symbols in chemistry : the earlier the better', in Gupta-Bhowon, M. et al. (eds) Chemistry education in the ICT age. Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 339–344. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9732-4_31.

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• Albert, S. et al. (2024) 'High resolution infrared spectroscopy of monodeutero-oxirane (c-C2H3DO) and the analysis of two fundamentals between 820 and 900 cm−1', in Book of Abstracts of the XXIV Symposium on Atomic, Cluster and Surface Physics. Trento: Universita di Trento, pp. 91–94.
• Manov, S. et al. (2016) '3. Synthesis and derivative resolution of halogenated enantiomers', in Stohner, J. and Yeretzian, C. (eds) Proceedings of the 20th SASP 2016. Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press, pp. 199–202. Available at: https://www.uibk.ac.at/iup/buch_pdfs/9783903122048.pdf.
• Schilling, M. and Stohner, J. (2016) '2. Mathematical compensation of multi-modulation artefacts in medium resolution gas-phase spectra using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy', in Stohner, J. and Yeretzian, C. (eds) Proceedings of the 20th SASP 2016. Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press, pp. 212–216. Available at: https://www.uibk.ac.at/iup/buch_pdfs/9783903122048.pdf.
• Pitzer, M. et al. (2015) 'Direct determination of molecular handedness via coulomb explosion imaging', in Journal of Physics: Conference Series. IOP Publishing, p. 112065. doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/635/11/112065.
• Mariotti, F. et al. (2004) 'Editorial and review : theoretical chemistry : molecular spectroscopy and dynamics', in Chimia. Schweizerische Chemische Gesellschaft, pp. 263–275. doi: 10.2533/000942904777677849.

Other publications

• Rüegg, L. et al. (2024) 'News about synthesis, enantio-separation and absolute configuration of some small chiral molecules', in Book of Abstracts of the XXIV Symposium on Atomic, Cluster and Surface Physics. Trento: Universita di Trento, pp. 120–122.
• Stohner, J. (2018) Small chiral molecules : synthesis, spectroscopy and quantum dynamics : SFB-Se­mi­nar gehalten an der Universität Kassel, 19. November 2018.
• Stohner, J. and Yeretzian, C. (eds) (2016) XXth Symposium on Atomic, Cluster and Surface Physics 2016 (SASP 2016), XXth Symposium on Atomic, Cluster and Surface Physics 2016 (SASP 2016), Davos, 7-12 February 2016. Innsbruck University Press. Available at: https://www.uibk.ac.at/iup/buch_pdfs/9783903122048.pdf.
• Stohner, J. (2015) 'Freiheit als Grundlage der Wissenschaften', in Seidl, E. (ed.) Freiheit : Mythos und Realität im Lichte individueller Betrachtungen. Zürich: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, pp. 108–109.
• Stöferle, Y. and Stohner, J. (2014) 'Synthese chiraler Halomethane und Oxirane', À Jour: SVC - Chemie, Life Sciences & Biotechnologie, 14(1), pp. 14–16.
• Deuber, F. and Stohner, J. (2013) 'Katalytische und enzymatische Trennung kleiner chiraler Moleküle', À Jour: SVC - Chemie, Life Sciences & Biotechnologie, 13(1), pp. 12–15.
• Stohner, J. (2012) Spectroscopy and its contribution to the understanding of fundamental laws in nature.
• Stohner, J. and Quack, M. (2012) 'Eine handliche Zusammenstellung einiger Grössen, Einheiten und Symbole in der Physikalischen Chemie', Bunsen-Magazin, 14(6), pp. 242–245.
• Deuber, F. and Stohner, J. (2012) 'Synthese und Spektroskopie kleiner chiraler Moleküle', Transfer, 2012(3), p. 8. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-4509.
• Zucchetti, B. et al. (2012) 'NIRS of chocolate and its chemometric analysis', New Food, 15(6), pp. 21–28.
• Stohner, J. (2011) Overtone spectroscopy, quantum dynamics and molecular parity violation.
• Stohner, J. and Quack, M. (2011) 'A concise summary of quantities, units and symbols in physical chemistry', Chemistry International, 33(4).
• Stohner, J. (2011) Quantum dynamics derived from overtone spectroscopy and parity violation in chiral molecules.
• Stohner, J. (2011) All you probably never wanted to know about molecular parity violation.
• Stohner, J. (2009) Parity violation in molecular spectroscopy and quantum dynamics.
• Cohen, E. R. et al. (eds) (2007) Quantities, units and symbols in physical chemistry. 3rd edition. Cambridge: Royal Society of Chemistry. doi: 10.1039/9781847557889.
• Quack, M., Stohner, J. and Riehn, C. (2006) Physikalische Chemie 2005 : Trendbericht. Wiley. doi: 10.1002/nadc.20060540312.
• Stohner, J. et al. (2006) 'Recent results on parity violation in chiral molecules : camphor and the influence of molecular parity violation', in XV symposium on atomic surface physics and related topics : contributions: Obergurgl, Austria, february 4 - 9, 2006. Innsbruck: University Press, pp. 196–199.
• Stohner, J. and Quack, M. (2006) 'Theory and molecular spectroscopy of the parity violating electroweak interaction : signatures in rovibrational spectra of polyatomic molecules', in Simos, T. and Maroulis, G. (eds) Recent progress in computational sciences and engineering : lectures presented at the international conference of computational methods in sciences and engineering 2006 (ICCMSE 2006). Leiden: Brill, pp. 968–972.
• Gottselig, M. et al. (2004) 'Mode-selective stereomutation tunnelling and parity violation in HOClH(+) and H2Te2 isotopomers', International Journal of Mass Spectrometry, 233(1-3), pp. 373–384. doi: 10.1016/j.ijms.2004.01.014.
• Stohner, J., Amrein, A. H. and Quack, M. (2003) 'Nachhaltigkeit in physikalisch-chemischer Forschung : spektroskopischer Beitrag zur Untersuchung von Spurengasen in der Atmosphäre', ZHWInfo, 16, p. 26.
• Keppler Albert, K. et al. (2003) 'Analysis of the high resolution infrared spectrum of monodeuterated ethylene oxide between 850-950 cm^-1', in 18th Colloquium on High Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy, Dijon, 8-12 September 2003. Dijon.
• Stohner, J. (1986) 'Die Gibbssche Energie (Freie Enthalpie) und die Gleichgewichtskonstante', Praxis der Naturwissenschaften, 35(1), pp. 29–32.

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

• Stohner, J. (2024) 'Synthesis and enantio-separation of small chiral molecules for spectroscopic investigations', in Invited Talk at the Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Switzerland, 22 May 2024.
• Albert, S. et al. (2021) 'High resolution infrared spectroscopy of cyano-oxirane (c-C2H3OCN)', in Abstracts & Presentations : 2020 International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy. Illinois: IDEALS.
• Stohner, J. (2018) 'Small chiral molecules for the investigation of chiroptical properties', in Workshop WG2 of MOLIM and Leopoldina Symposium on Molecular Quantum Dynamics and Kinetics, Athens, Greece, 8 October 2018.
• Stohner, J. (2018) 'Small chiral molecules : ! Useful species to study chiroptical properties', in Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Chiral Structures and their Assemblies, Telluride CO, USA, 2018.
• Stohner, J. (2014) 'What are chiral molecules good for?', in SASP 2014, Obergurgl, Österreich, 8-14 February 2014.
• Stohner, J. (2014) 'Chiral molecules', in Division of Physical and Biophysical Chemistry: IUPAC off-year Meeting, Kappel am Albis, 31 May-1 June 2014.
• Stohner, J. (2013) 'Chiral molecules in molecular spectroscopy', in Leopoldina-Symposium 'Spectroscopy and Molecular Dynamics at the Limit', Leopoldina Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften, Zürich, 10-13 September 2013.
• Stohner, J. (2012) 'Spectroscopy of chiral molecules', in 18th Symposium on Atomic, Cluster and Surface Physics (SASP 2012), Alpe d'Huez, France, 22–27 January 2012.
• Stohner, J. (2012) 'Chiral molecules : spectroscopy, dynamics and fundamental laws', in Symposium of the Japanese Chemical Society and the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 8 June 2012.
• Stohner, J. (2010) 'Parity violation in molecular spectroscopy and its consequences', in Vortrag an Yale University, New Haven, 8. Juli 2010.
• Stohner, J. (2009) 'Line shift in rotational spectra of polyatomic chiral molecules caused by parity violating electroweak interaction', in 64th International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy, Columbus OH, USA, 22-26 June 2009.
• Stohner, J. (2009) 'Infrared multiphoton excitation in polyatomic molecules', in Vortrag an Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS), Frankfurt a.M., Deutschland, 11. Februar 2009.
• Quack, M. and Stohner, J. (2008) 'Parity violating electroweak interaction effects in calculated (Ro)vibrational spectra of polyatomic chiral molecules', in Bunsentagung Saarbrücken 2008 - 107. Hauptversammlung der Deutschen Bunsen-Gesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie, Saarbrücken, Deutschland, 1.-3. Mai 2008.
• Stohner, J. and Quack, M. (2008) 'Education about the use of quantities, units and symbols in chemistry : the earlier the better', in 20th International Conference on Chemical Education (ICCE), Mauritius, 3-8 August 2008.
• Stohner, J. (2006) 'Signatures from electroweak quantum chemistry in (ro)vibrational spectra of polyatomic molecules', in International Conference of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering ICCMSE 2006: Symposium «Relativistic Quantum Theory: Computational Perspectives and Applications», Chania, Greece, 29 October – 1 November 2006.
• Stohner, J. and Quack, M. (2005) 'Parity violation in chiral molecules : talk at the Telluride Workshop on 'vibrational dynamics in condensed and gas phase'', in Workshop on «Vibrational Dynamics in Condensed and Gas Phase», Telluride CO, USA, 2005.
• Stohner, J. (2005) 'Parity violation in chiral molecules : facts and speculations'.
• Stohner, J. (2005) 'Parity violation in polyatomic chiral molecules'.
• Stohner, J. (2005) 'Spectroscopy and dynamics of chiral molecules : the role of parity violation and immediate consequences'.
• Willeke, M. et al. (2004) 'Theorie der Stereomutationsdynamik und der Paritätsverletzung in Molekülen mit helicaler Chiralität', in Hauptversammlung der Deutschen Bunsen-Gesellschaft fuer Physikalische Chemie, Dresden, Deutschland, 2004.
• Stohner, J. (2004) 'Theory of parity violation in chiral molecules : the role of multi-dimensional anharmonic couplings for spectroscopic observables in CDBrClF'.
• Stohner, J. (2004) 'Parity violation in CDBrClF and camphor : the role of anharmonicity and anharmonic couplings', in Talk at the Fall Meeting of the Swiss Chemical Society, Zürich, 2004.
• Stohner, J. (2003) 'Spectroscopy, dynamics and parity violation in chiral molecules', in Condensed Phase and Gas Phase Vibrational Dynamics Conference, Telluride CO, USA, 2003.

Patents and patent applications

• Spenger, Benjamin; Stohner, Jürgen,

  2016.

  Verfahren zur gaschromatischen Trennung eines Enantiomerengemisches.

  Patent number EP3069777 A1

  (2016-09-21)

  .

  Available from: https://worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/search?q=pn%3DEP3069777A1

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