Ultraviolet Study of the Gas Phase Hydration of Methylglyoxal to Form the Gemdiol Jay A. Kroll*, Anne S. Hansen**, Kristian H. Møller**, Jessica L. Axson†, Henrik G. Kjaergaard**, and Veronica Vaida* *Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder CO **Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 5, DK-2100, Copenhagen Ø, Denmark †Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI June 19th, 2017

Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of the Gas Phase Hydration of Methylglyoxal The results presented in this talk should be available in the near future in a paper titled: Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of the Gas Phase Hydration of Methylglyoxal Jay A. Kroll, Anne S. Hansen, Kristian H. Møller, Jessica L. Axson, Henrik G. Kjaergaard, and Veronica Vaida

Acknowledgements Joseph R. Lane for helpful discussions about Newton-X. Members of the Vaida group Funding Center for Exploitation of Solar Energy, University of Copenhagen for funding. NSF grant number CHE-1611107 NASA grant number NNX15APZOG University of Colorado Center for the Study of Origins Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science (CIRES)