PHYSWednesday, August 22, 2007

1:20 PM-4:50 PM BCEC -- 160A, Oral
Excited Electronic States in Chemistry and Biology: Theory and Experiment
DNA and RNA Bases
Organizers:Todd J. Martinez
Spiridoula Matsika
Presiding:Robert J. Stanley
1:20 PMElectronic spectroscopy for conformational identification of biologically related species
Wei Kong, Linsen Pei, Jie Zhang
2:00 PMMolecular basis of the photostability and photoinduced reactivity in biomolecules
Manuela Merchán
2:40 PMIntermission
2:50 PMObserving ultrafast dynamics in gas-phase biomolecules: On the photostability of Adenine
Susanne Ullrich, Nick Evans, Billy Potter, Helmut Satzger, Marek Z. Zgierski, Albert Stolow
3:30 PMUltrafast dynamics of flavins and flavoproteins
Dongping Zhong
4:10 PMUltrafast photophysics of DNA bases in solution: Motion to the conical intersection captured by 30 fs dispersed pump-probe spectroscopy
Askat Jailaubekov, Christi Chester, Stephen E. Bradforth
4:30 PMRadiationless decay of pyrimidine bases in the gas phase and in water
Hanneli Hudock, Aaron Virshup, Todd J. Martinez

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The 234th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, August 19-23, 2007