PHYSThursday, April 10, 2008

1:20 PM-5:20 PM Morial Convention Center -- Rm. 345, Oral
Electronic Structure and Reaction Dynamics of Open-shell Species
Reactive Scattering and Energy Transfer
Organizers:Jingsong Zhang
Martin Head-Gordon
Presiding:David L. Osborn
1:20 PMA renaissance of Polanyi's rule: Effects of polyatomic reactant vibrations on reactivity
Kopin Liu
2:00 PMCrossed-beam reaction dynamics of atomic and molecular free-radicals: From combustion to interstellar space and planetary atmosphere chemistry
Piergiorgio Casavecchia
2:40 PMChemical dynamics of bimolecular reactions of cyano radicals with unsaturated hydrocarbons Toward the stepwise build-up of the aerosol layer in Titan's atmosphere
Fangtong Zhang, Xibin Gu, Ralf I. Kaiser
3:00 PMIntermission
3:20 PMKinetics of CH + N2 revisited with multireference methods
Lawrence B. Harding, Stephen J. Klippenstein, James A. Miller
3:40 PMReaction dynamics of open shell radicals using full dimensional potential energy surfaces
Joel M. Bowman, Chao Chen, Benjamin C. Shepler, Bastiaan J. Braams
4:20 PMProbing radical intermediates of bimolecular addition/elimination reactions
Laurie J. Butler, Laura R. McCunn, Kai-Chung Lau, Benjamin L. FitzPatrick
5:00 PMLow temperature reactivity: Effects of reactant rotation
Alexandre Faure, Laurent Wiesenfeld, Pierre Valiron

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