PHYSThursday, August 23, 2007

1:20 PM-4:55 PM BCEC -- 160A, Oral
Excited Electronic States in Chemistry and Biology: Theory and Experiment
Gas and Liquid Environments
Organizers:Todd J. Martinez
Spiridoula Matsika
Presiding:Stephen E. Bradforth
1:20 PMConformationally controlled dissociation of ions
Arthur G. Suits, Myung Hwa Kim, Lei Shen
2:00 PMMMVB for conjugated hydrocarbon cations: Method development and application to photochemistry in interstellar clouds
Katherine F. Hall, Michael J. Bearpark, Andrei M. Tokmachev, Martial Boggio-Pasqua, Michael A. Robb
2:20 PMExploring electronic structure and nuclear dynamics in tropolone
Lori A. Burns, Daniel Murdock, Patrick H. Vaccaro
2:40 PMIntermission
2:55 PMChemical reactions in excited electronic states: Photodissociation of N3Cl and N3H, and color tuning and reaction mechanism of luciferase bioluminescence
Keiji Morokuma, Ioannis Kerkines, Zhi Wang, Peng Zhang, Lung Wa Chung, Marcus Lundberg, Shigehiko Hayashi
3:35 PMExcited-state photoacidity: The interplay between solvation and electronic structure
Noa Ben-Menachem, Sharon Keinan, Noga Munitz, Ehud Pines
3:55 PMProbing the solvent effect on curve crossing in a photodissociation reaction in liquid water
Christopher A. Rivera, Stephen E. Bradforth, Nicolas Winter, Rachael V. Harper, Ilan Benjamin
4:15 PMSubstituent effects on dynamics at conical intersections: Alpha,beta enones
Anthony M. D. Lee, Joshua D. Coe, Todd J. Martinez, Albert Stolow
4:35 PMPhotodissociation and excited states dynamics of the SH radical
Xianfeng Zheng, Jingze Wu, Yu Song, Jingsong Zhang

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