Matt Kubasik

Professor
of Chemistry & Biochemistry

Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Fairfield University
1073 North Benson Road
Fairfield, CT 06824

(203) 254-4000 ext. 2122 (office)
(203) 254-4000 ext. 2658 (lab)
mkubasik@fairfield.edu

Undergraduate Research Collaborators

The Chemistry 497X research team for the Spring of 2024. (l-r): Sarah Breslow '26', Colin Gorman '26, and Kelley Ross '25

Teaching

General Chemistry
Physical Chemistry
Chemical Instrumentation
Jmol Pages

Casey D. Foley, Chin Lee, Ali Abou Taka, Kendrew Au, Etienne Chollet^*,, Matthew A. Kubasik, Laura M. McCaslin, and Timothy S. Zwier, "Site-Specific Photochemistry along a Protonated Peptide Scaffold", JACS, 146(19) 13282–13295 (2024).

Joshua L. Fischer, Brayan R. Elvir^*, Sally-Ann Delucia^*, Karl Blodgett, Matthias Zeller, Matthew A. Kubasik, and Timothy S. Zwier, "Single-Conformation Spectroscopy of Capped Aminoisobutryic Acid Dipeptides: The Effect of C-Terminal Cap Chromophore on Conformation," Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 123 4178-4187 (2019)

Joseph R. Gord, Daniel M. Hewett, Alicia O. Hernandez-Castillo, Karl N. Blodgett, Matthew C. Rotondaro,^*, Adalgisa Varuolo,^*, Matthew A. Kubasik and Timothy S. Zwier, "Conformation-specific spectroscopy of capped, gas-phase Aib oligomers: tests of the Aib residue as a 3₁₀-helix former" Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 18, 25512-25527 (2016).

Matthew A. Kubasik, Aaron R. Van Dyke, Amanda S. Harper-Leatherman, John R. Miecznikowski, L. Kraig Steffen and Jillian Smith-Carpenter, "A Cloud-Based Scavenger Hunt: Orienting Undergraduates to ACS National Meetings" J. Chem. Educ., 93 1957–1960 (2016)

T. Zeko^*, S.F. Hannigan^*, T. Jacisin^*, M.J. Guberman-Pfeffer^*, E.R. Falcone^*, M.J. Guildford^*, C.Szabo^*, K.E. Cole^*, J. Placido^*, E. Daly^*, and M.A. Kubasik, "FT-IR Spectroscopy and Density Functional Theory Calculations of ¹³C Isotopologues of the Helical Peptide Z-Aib₆-OtBu", J. Phys. Chem. B, 118, 58 (2014).