PHYSMonday, March 24, 2003

8:00 PM-10:00 PM Convention Center -- Hall G,Sci-Mix
Sci-Mix
Organizer:James L Skinner
 242Predicting molecular hyperpolarizabilities: Is semiquantitative the best we can do?
Shawn B. Allin
 257A direct INDO/SCI method for excited-state calculations
Aimee L Tomlinson, David Yaron
 258Effects of H2O on gold cluster adsorption activity
William T. Wallace, Robert L. Whetten
 259Photodissociation dynamics of ethyl ethnyl ether: A new ketenyl radical precursor
Maria J. Krisch, Johanna L Miller, Laura R. McCunn, Laurie J. Butler, Hongmei Su, Richard Bersohn, Jinian Shu
 262Photodissociation of CF2ClBr at the 267-nm region
Jianhua Huang, Dadong Xu, Joseph S. Francisco, William M Jackson
 264Toward more accurate computational methods to predict C-13 chemical shifts: A study of 2,2,4-trimethylpentane-1,3-diol
Aleksey Pisarenko, James B. Foresman, Donald Clarke
 265Infrared diode laser spectroscopy of jet-cooled organometallics
Scott W. Reeve, William A. Burns, Kyle S. Trauth
 266Products of high-velocity O-ethylene collisions detected via time-resolved FTIR emission spectroscopy
James A. Dodd, Karen J. Castle, Eunsook S. Hwang, Gary D. DeBoer
 271Quasiclassical state-selected trajectory study of the O + H3+ reaction
Charles W. Eaker
 274Reaction kinetics of the isomerization of 1,1,2,2-tetramethylcyclopropane
Kyle Parcella, Timothy Gray, Bansi L. Kalra, Trupti Guhan, David K. Lewis
 275Reconstruction of superexcited-state potential energy curves of HCl
Hans-Peter Loock, Sergei Manzhos, Constantin Romanescu, Dmitrii Boldovsky
 276Response-surface geometry optimization in quantum Monte Carlo: Application to formaldehyde
Charles A. Schuetz, Michael Frenklach, Alexander C. Kollias, William A. Lester Jr.
 278SOX on VOX: Oxidation-state tuning of the adsorption of SO2 on vanadium-oxide cluster anions
Richard B Wyrwas Jr., Robert L. Whetten, Andrew J. Leavitt
 279Spectroscopic and electrical properties of ground state NaH: Extrapolation to the complete basis set limit
Brian K. Taylor
 283Thermochemistry of hydrocarbon ions, CnHm+ (n = 3–9), in the gas phase
Skip Williams, Thomas M. Miller, Anthony Midey, Albert A. Viggiano
 285Velocity map imaging of the photodissociation of CF3I: Vibrational energy dependence of the recoil anisotropy
Fernando Aguirre, Stephen T. Pratt
 286Vibrational excitation mechanism for HCN in a pulsed-IR laser field using Floquet and Fourier analyses
Mark A. Rickard, Bridget L. Gourley
 289Electronic spectrum of dimethylcadmium cations in a free-jet expansion
Fred J. Grieman, Rachel M. Stephenson, Brent G. Riffel
 290Quantum Monte Carlo Study of the pi->pi transition in ethylene
Ouafae El Akramine, Alexander C. Kollias, William A. Lester Jr.
 292Estimates of the ab initio limit for pi-pi interactions and their role in molecular recognition
Mutasem Omar Sinnokrot, Edward F. Valeev, C. David Sherrill
 297Fourier transform emission spectroscopy of the [12.3]2S+X 2P1/2 transition of NiCl
Corey A. Rice, Leah C. O'Brien
 300In search of covalently bound tetra- and penta-oxygen clusters
Ben M. Elliott, Alexander I. Boldyrev, Lai-Sheng Wang, Hua-Jin Zhai, Xin Yang, Xue-Bin Wang
 302Investigating hydrogen-bonding systems using computational methods
Katie R. Mitchell, A. S. Borovik, Ward H. Thompson
 303Ion pair imaging spectroscopy with DC slice maging
Michael P Minitti, Dave Townsend, Arthur G. Suits
 304IR-VUV and VUV-IR photoinduced Rydberg ionization of Ar and C2H2
Ximei Qian, Andy Kung, C. Y. Ng
 313Conformational studies of benzyl compounds
Karissa A. Utzat, Robert K. Bohn, H. Harvey Michels
 315Dependence of the catalytic activity of the 3-D transition-metal sulfides on their electronic structure
Raúl Oviedo-Roa, Luis Antonio Pérez, José-Manuel Martínez-Magadán, Octavio Novaro
 320Computational ground-state structures of benzene-13: A reconsideration
David C. Easter
 321Atomic oxygen beam source for investigating high-energy O + hydrocarbon reactions
Steven D. Chambreau, Eunsook S. Hwang, James A. Dodd
 326A TDDFT study of the low-lying excited states of coumarins 102, 152, 153, and 343
Robert J. Cave, Edward W. Castner Jr.
 328Identification of Se substitution location in Ge4S9Se14- clusters using ab initio vibrational calculations and FT-Raman spectroscopy
Scott J. Kirkby
 329Ab initio studies of ß-aminocyclopropane carboxylic acids
James L. Meeks, Krista L. Adams, Harry B. Fannin
 342Solvation in water at elevated temperatures
J. Duan, Hyung Kim
 347Ultrafast infrared spectroscopy of vibrational and rotational relaxation of pseudohalide ions in reverse micelles
Qun Zhong, Andrew P. Baronavski, Jeffrey C. Owrutsky
 349An FT-IR study of crown ether complexation with water in liquid and supercritical CO2
Anne F. Rustenholtz, John L. Fulton, C. M. Wai
 353Control of intermolecular electron-transfer reactions in liquid-crystalline solvent at the point of phase transition
Mark Lilichenko, Dmitry Matyushov
 354Dynamics of ultrafast proton transfer in 1-acylaminoanthraquinones
Sarah J. Schmidtke, David F. Underwood, David A. Blank
 370Influence of pressure on liquid-liquid immiscibility in n-alkane/n-perfluoroalkane/carbon dioxide mixtures
Ling Zhang, J. Ilja Siepmann
 373Terahertz spectroscopy of crown ethers in solution
Timothy M. Korter, Matthew C. Beard, William T. Lotshaw, Lawrence K. Iwaki, Edwin J. Heilweil
 381Computer simulation studies of fluorosurfactant-based reverse micelles in supercritical carbon dioxide
Sanjib Senapati, Max L Berkowitz
 383Brownian dynamics simulation of model PDC109 in water
Hyung J Kim, Hyun J Kim, Y. Shim, M Y Choi, Miguel Llinas
 386Quantum molecular dynamics simulation of the interaction between a-hematite surface and imidazoline molecules
Fernando Alvarez Ramírez, Isidoro García-Cruz, Gustavo Tavizon, José-Manuel Martínez-Magadán
 387Study of the interaction between FeS surface and Mullins and Zajac asphaltene models
Fernando Alvarez Ramírez, Isidoro García-Cruz, Gustavo Tavizon, José-Manuel Martínez-Magadán
 388Surface-enhanced Raman spectra of aqueous cyanide adsorbed onto metal colloids
Michael B. Jacobs, Paul W. Jagodzinski
 389Surface-enhanced Raman spectra of pyridine using different metal surfaces: Evidence for the formation of Á-pyridyl at ambient conditions
Chen Zuo, Paul W. Jagodzinski
 395Patterned electrodes for the fabrication of controlled-movement polymer transducers
Lakshmi Supriya, Richard O. Claus
 398Structure-property studies of conjugated oligomers: From single molecules to films
Melissa A. Summers, Michael T. Bowers, Guillermo C. Bazan, Steven K. Buratto
 399Photoelectrochemical water splitting from spray pyrolytically fabricated nanocrystalline p-Fe2O3
William B. Ingler Jr., Shahed U.M. Khan
 400Screening for Ge4X104- (X = S, Se) adamantanoid cluster synthesis using ab initio vibrational calculations and FT-Raman spectroscopy
Scott J. Kirkby
 401Spectroscopy of single-fluorene copolymers
Robin K. Lammi, Paul F. Barbara
 405Vibrational quenching of fluorescence in zeolites by adsorbed dihydrogen and hydrogen deuteride: Chemical hole burning
Ray L. Sweany, Jason M. Bono
 408Molecular polarizabilities of model carbon nanotubes from atomic increments
Francisco Torrens
 409Self-assembly of semiconductor nanoparticles into superlattice
Daniel L. Akins, Wei Xu, Stephen P. O'Brien, Limin Huang, Ming Yin
 413Catalytic activity of molybdenum disulfide nanotubes inferred from their electronic structure
Luis Antonio Pérez, Raúl Oviedo-Roa, José-Manuel Martínez-Magadán
 414Si-29 MAS NMR and XRD studies of solid-state cation migration through zeolite materials
Susan M. Neugebauer Crawford, Jacqueline R. Houston
 415Si-29 studies of Ni(II)and Cu(II)cation migration through zeolites ZSM-5 and mordenite
Susan M. Neugebauer Crawford, Nicole M. Leonard
 417Synthesis of cobalt nitrate hydrate nanoparticles using laser vaporization controlled condensation
Garry P. Glaspell II, Paul W. Jagodzinski, A. Manivannan
 418The catalytic cracking of n-dodecane in the supercage of the HUSY zeolite
José-Manuel Martínez-Magadán, Fernando Alvarez Ramírez, Octavio Novaro
 421Dynamics of the capillary rise in nanocylinders and nanoporous materials
Lev D Gelb, Alicia C Hopkins
 427Self-assembled FePt nanoparticles for granular thin-film magnetic recording media
David E Nikles, J. W. Harrell, Shishou Kang, Xiangcheng Sun
 430EPR studies of [Os2(hpp)4Cl2](PF6), the first structurally confirmed M27+ paddlewheel
Ashley C. Stowe, Naresh Dalal, Penglin Huang, Carlos A. Murillo, Xiaoping Wang, F. A. Cotton
 433Synthesis, self-assembly, and magnetic properties of FePtCu nanoparticles
Xiangcheng Sun, David E Nikles, Jing Li, ZhongLin Wang
 437Ab initio molecular dynamics simulation of the interaction between a-hematite surface and different asphaltene molecular models
Fernando Alvarez Ramírez, Isidoro García-Cruz, Gustavo Tavizon, José-Manuel Martínez-Magadán
 439Inelastic neutron spectroscopy of organic hydrocarbons
Jennifer A. Ciezak, Bruce S. Hudson, Timothy A. Jenkins, Damian Allis
 442Colloidal III-nitride quantum dots: Synthesis and characterization
P. Gregory Van Patten, Guiquan Pan
 444Symmetric hydrogen bonds
Timothy A. Jenkins, Bruce S. Hudson
 450Time-resolved infrared studies of RecA
James A. Bailey, Gina MacDonald
 455Net charge center: A new physicochemical model of protein function for structural genomics and bioinformatics
Ivan Y. Torshin, Robert W. Harrison, Irene T. Weber
 456Polyproline-II conformation of alanine dipeptide determined by liquid-crystal NMR
James C. Weisshaar, Christoph Weise
 457Infrared studies of nucleotide binding to RecA
Catherine M. Schwartz, Jennifer A. Rudnick, Gina MacDonald
 460Modeling cyclic dipetides and calculations of their UV CD spectra
Kristine L. Carlson, Mark R. Hoffmann, Kathryn A Thomasson
 461Conformational analysis of histamine tautomers
Albert A. DeFusco III, Kenneth D. Jordan
 465Thermodynamics of metabolism from the point of view of semigrand partition functions
Robert A. Alberty

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The 225th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 23-27, 2003