PHYSSunday, April 6, 2008

8:00 AM-12:05 PM Morial Convention Center -- Rm. 342, Oral
Computational Spectroscopy
Electronic Spectroscopy
Organizer:H. B. Schlegel
Organizer, Presiding:Krishnan Raghavachari
8:00 AMIntroductory Remarks
8:05 AMFormation of cyclic N3: Theoretical studies on the 157 nm photodissociation of ClN3
Keiji Morokuma, Ioannis Kerkines, Zhi Wang
8:45 AMSimple and accurate electronic structure methods for molecular ground and excited states
Martin Head-Gordon
9:25 AMExcited electronic states of nucleic acid assemblies
John M. Herbert
9:45 AMTDDFT optical absorption spectra of silver tetrahedra
Christine M. Aikens, George C. Schatz
10:05 AMIntermission
10:25 AMInterplay between computational chemistry and spectroscopy: Structure of gas-phase cluster ions
James M. Lisy
11:05 AMSolvent-induced shifts using a combined QM-Effective Fragment Potential approach
Mark S. Gordon, Pooja Arora, Federico Zahariev, Sarom Sok, Soohaeng Yoo
11:45 AMExperimental and theoretical evaluation of the photophysical properties of benzophenone derivatives
Brandi Michelle Baughman, Rachel E. Lipner, Andrew C. Rudawsky, Elana Stennett, Sarah J. Schmidtke

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