PHYSSunday, April 6, 2008

1:20 PM-5:20 PM Morial Convention Center -- Rm. 343, Oral
Physical Chemistry of Atmospheric Processes
Gas Phase Photochemistry
Organizers:Matthew J. Elrod
Joel Thornton
Presiding:John J. Orlando
1:20 PMMeasurements of free-radicals in the atmosphere using laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy
Dwayne E. Heard
2:00 PMSunlight initiated photochemistry in excited vibrational levels of the ground electronic state of organic acids
Veronica Vaida
2:40 PMHCO quantum yields in the photolysis of glyoxal, HC(O)C(O)H, from 290 to 420 nm
Karl J. Feierabend, Jonathan E. Flad, Steven S. Brown, James B. Burkholder
3:00 PMIntermission
3:20 PMExperimental and theoretical investigations of the OH-initiated oxidation of volatile organic compounds
Munkhbayar Baasandorj, Deepali Vimal, Philip S. Stevens
4:00 PMCombined experimental and theoretical study of Methylglyoxal + OH: Atmospheric implications
David R Glowacki, Maria Theresa Baeza-Romero, Mark A. Blitz, Dwayne E. Heard, Paul W. Seakins, Michael J. Pilling
4:20 PMPhotolytic launching of selective reactive pathways: Isomeric specific studies of biogenic hydrocarbon oxidation
Simon North
4:40 PMCyclization of 1,4 hydroxycarbonyls from isoprene and alkanes
Theodore S. Dibble
5:00 PMKinetics of ion-molecule reactions with O2(a 1Δg)
Anthony Midey Jr., Itzhak Dotan, Albert A. Viggiano

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The 235th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 6-10, 2008