PHYSWednesday, March 26, 2003

7:30 PM-10:00 PM Convention Center -- Hall J,Poster
Physical Chemistry Poster Session
Gas-Phase Dynamics and Structure
Organizer:James L. Skinner
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
260Photoelectron imaging spectroscopy of molecular and cluster anions
Eric Surber, Andrei Sanov, Richard Mabbs
261Paper Withdrawn
262Photodissociation of CF2ClBr at the 267-nm region
Jianhua Huang, Dadong Xu, Joseph S. Francisco, William M Jackson
263Testing the morphed potential of Ar:HBr using frequency and phase-stabilized FASSST with a supersonic jet
Blake A. McElmurry, Sergey P. Belov, John Bevan, Robert R. Lucchese, Igor Leonov
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
267Pulsed supersonic flow kinetic studies of radicals at interstellar temperatures
Christopher Mullen, Mark Smith
268Molecular modeling of hydrogen-bonded interactions
Brian H. Nordstrom
269Radical photoionization studies with VUV synchrotron radiation
Christophe Nicolas, Darcy S. Peterka, Musahid Ahmed, Lionel Poisson, Branko Ruscic, Xiaonan Tang, Tao Zhang, Melita L. Morton
270Quantum Monte Carlo study of the electronic structure of free-base porphyrin
Ouafae El Akramine, Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Jeffrey C. Grossman, William A. Lester Jr.
271Quasiclassical state-selected trajectory study of the O + H3+ reaction
Charles W. Eaker
272Near-infrared laser spectroscopy of CoI
Ally Lai Wong, Wilson Wai Shun Tam, Joanne Wing Har Leung, A. S. C. Cheung
273Raman spectra of vapors at elevated temperatures
Jaan Laane, Daniel Autrey, Zane Arp, Kristjan Haller, Kevin Morris, Amanda Combs
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.
277Rydberg fingerprint spectra of monocyclic and bicyclic molecules
Narayanan Kuthirummal, Jaimie L. Gosselin, Peter M. Weber
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
280Spectroscopy of NiCl: Identification of a [9.1]2p3/2 state
Sinan Tumturk, Leah C. O'Brien
281The kinetics of methyl loss from ethylbenzene and xylene ions: The tropylium versus benzylium story revisited
Karl-M Weitzel, Marcus Malow, Martin Penno
282Theoretical study of the noble-gas compounds HKrF and HKrCl
James J. Seals III, Scott Yockel, Angela K. Wilson
283Thermochemistry of hydrocarbon ions, CnHm+ (n = 3–9), in the gas phase
Skip Williams, Thomas M. Miller, Anthony Midey, Albert A. Viggiano
284Unimolecular rate constant for the HF elimination from chemically activated CF3CHFCF3
Brooke M. Sibila, Michael Roach, George L. Heard, Bert E. Holmes
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
287Vibrational overtone transitions of hydrofluoropropanes and ethanes
Jason S. Leith, Adam H. Steeves, James R. Apgar, Brian G. Saar, Saroj Bhattarai, John W. Thoman Jr.
288Dynamics of charge-transfer-to-solvent precursor states in halide-solvent clusters
Qadir K. Timerghazin, Gilles H. Peslherbe
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.
291Separation of conventional and distonic radical cations of CH3–X using nitrogen-cooled ion mobility time-of-flight mass spectrometry
Guido F. Verbeck, David H. Russell
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
293Experimental rate constants and branching ratios for unimolecular decomposition of chemically activated C(CH3)3CH2Cl and C(CH3)3CD2Cl: Evidence for 1,1-DCl and 1,3-HCl eliminations
Carmen E. Lisowski, Keith E. Krumpe, George L. Heard, Bert E. Holmes
294Experimental rate constants, branching ratios, and kinetic isotope effects for unimolecular decomposition of chemically activated CHF2CH2Cl and CHF2CD2Cl
Melinda R. Beaver, Bert E. Holmes
295Finite temperature properties of (CO2)n clusters
Hanbin Liu, Kenneth D. Jordan
296First direct measurement of the rate constant for the reaction Cl + CH3 and a reexamination of its role in perturbing laboratory measurements of the important stratospheric reaction of Cl + CH4
James K. Parker, Louis J. Stief, Walter Payne, Regina Cody, Fred Nesbitt
297Fourier transform emission spectroscopy of the [12.3]2S+X 2P1/2 transition of NiCl
Corey A. Rice, Leah C. O'Brien
298HOC+ + H2 isomerization rate at 25K: Implications on the observed [HCO+]/[HOC+] ratios in the interstellar medium
Mark Smith, Stephen Schlemmer, Jan von Richthofen, Dieter Gerlich
299Imaging studies of helium nanodroplets
Darcy S. Peterka, Lionel Poisson, Albrecht Lindinger, Musahid Ahmed, Daniel M. Neumark
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
301Internal temperature of laser-evaporated liquid aerosol droplet measurements with VUV photoionization using a "chemical thermometer."
Tomas Baer, Roger E. Miller, Ephraim Woods III
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
305Isomerization of benzene radical cation: Binding energies and structures of benzene cluster ions
M. Samy El-Shall, Mark, J. Rusyniak, Yahya, M. Ibrahim
306Kinetics of Cl atom reactions with cyclic ethers
Michelle Quant, Rachel Kelley, Scott Hewitt
307Kinetics of the CCO + NO reaction
Dave Thweatt, Mark A. Erickson, John F. Hershberger
308Kinetics of the reactions of Cl atoms with naphthalene and alkylnaphthalenes
Claudia Quant, Xingyu Peng, David Coulson, Michelle Luu, Scott Hewitt
309Kinetics of the SiH3 + H2O2 and SiH3 + O2 reactions
Justin P. Meyer, John F. Hershberger
310Laplace transform perturbative triples correction ansatz: Application to organometallic compounds
Pere Constans, Gustavo E Scuseria
311Mode-dependent vibrational autoionization in nitrogen dioxide
Patrice Bell, Fernando Aguirre, Edward R. Grant, Stephen T. Pratt
312Computational study of the 1,1-HX and –DX (X = F, Cl, and Br) elimination from halomethanes
Michael Roach, George L. Heard, Bert E. Holmes
313Conformational studies of benzyl compounds
Karissa A. Utzat, Robert K. Bohn, H. Harvey Michels
314Convergence of CCSD(T) and full CI spectroscopic constants for BH, CH+, and NH
Berhane Temelso, C. David Sherrill
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
316Different bonding behavior of nitrogen vs phosphorus: A density functional theory study
Brock Adams, Wei Chhen Chai, Katie Kavulla, Daisy Y. Zhang
317Dissociation channels of the 1-buten-2-yl radical: An experimental and ab initio study
Johanna L. Miller, Maria J. Krisch, Laurie J. Butler, Jinian Shu
318Dissociation pathways of nitrogen-oxygen molecules
Douglas L Strout, Lana Y Bruney
319Dissociative photoionization dynamics in ethane studied by velocity map imaging
Wen Li, Lionel Poisson, Darcy S Peterka, Musahid Ahmed, Arthur G. Suits
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
322Energy barriers to [1,3]hydrogen-transfer reactions found using valency interaction formulas compared to MO theories and experiment
Joseph D. Alia
323Calculating the atomic mass of bromine
Neil P. Larson, Fred Hilgeman
324CF3CFHO vs CH3CH2O: An ab initio molecular orbital study of mechanisms and kinetics of C–C bond scission and reaction with O2
Jonathan E. Stevens, Olga Radkevich, Jessica Brown
325Aromaticity and antiaromaticity in small boron clusters and related compounds
Anastassia N. Alexandrova, Alexander I. Boldyrev, Huili Zhai, Lai-Sheng Wang
326A TDDFT study of the low-lying excited states of coumarins 102, 152, 153, and 343
Robert J. Cave, Edward W. Castner Jr.
327A theoretical study of the reactions of carbonyl oxide with water and water dimer
Andrew Borisovich Ryzhkov, Parisa Ariya
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
330Cation-£k interactions in substituted aromatic complexes: An experimental and theoretical study of Ag(I)-alkylbenzenes and substituted naphthalenes
Y.P. Wong, H.M. Lee, Ida N.L. Ma, C.W. Tsang
331Paper Withdrawn
332Full-dimensional inelastic scattering between H2 using Chebyshev propagation
Shiying Lin, Hua Guo
333Multiconfiguration time-dependent Hartree method applied to intramolecular and intermolecular energy redistribution of molecules
Fabien Gatti, Christophe Iung, Hans-Dieter Meyer

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