PHYSMonday, August 20, 2007

8:20 AM-12:00 PM BCEC -- 158, Oral
Quantum Mechanics and Statistical Mechanics: Can One Avoid the Other?
Water and Solvent Effects
Organizers:Jiali Gao
Sharon Hammes-Schiffer
Presiding:Mark E. Tuckerman
8:20 AMHydrogen bonded fluids: Insight from ab initio simulations and electronic structure calculations
Giulia Galli
9:00 AMStatistical mechanical and electronic structure definitions of hydrogen bonding in liquid water
James L. Skinner
9:40 AMHow quantized hydroxyl vibrations report on classical aqueous environments
Phillip L. Geissler
10:00 AMIntermission
10:20 AMConical intersection structure and dynamics: Effects of an environment
James T. Hynes, Irene Burghardt
11:00 AMDensity functional based molecular dynamics simulation of the aqueous hydroxyl and thiyl radical
Michiel Sprik, Christopher Adriaanse, Marialore Sulpizi, Joost VandeVondele
11:20 AMDissociation of heavy water
Maria A. Gomez, Laura Fernandez, Lindiwe Ndebele
11:40 AMWater addition along with reduction of aqueous ruthenium complexes by ab initio free energy calculation method for bond breaking/formation coupled to electron transfer
Yoshitaka Tateyama, Jochen Blumberger, Takahisa Ohno, Michiel Sprik

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