WB. WEDNESDAY POSTER PRESENTATIONS

AUGUST 18, 1999 - 7:30PM

Room: BALLROOM, LITTLE AMERICA HOTEL

Chair: MATS LARSSON, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

WB01 1min7:30

REMPI STUDIES OF CF AND CF₃ FREE RADICALS.

Q. LI, Q. ZHANG, J. SHU, X. ZHOU, S. YU, C. CHEN AND X. MA, Department of Chemical Physics, Open Laboratory of Bond-Selective Chemistry of CAS, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, P. R. China.

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WB02			1min7:31

OBSERVATION OF MOLECULAR HYPERFINE QUANTUM BEATS USING NANOSECOND TRANSIENT GRATING SPECTROSCOPY.

S. A. REID, J. P. SCHMIDT, Y. TANG AND B. LIANG, Department of Chemistry, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881.

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WB03			1min7:32

VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY OF ENTRANCE CHANNEL COMPLEXES.

MARTYN D. WHEELER, MICHAEL W. TODD, DAVID T. ANDERSON, MARIA TSIOURIS AND MARSHA I. LESTER,
Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6323.

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WB04			1min7:33

THE VISIBLE SPECTRUM OF THE VINYL RADICAL MEASURED WITH CAVITY RING-DOWN LASER ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY..

J. B. HALPERN, K. PATRICK, S. ALFRED, Department of Chemistry, Howard University, Washington, DC 20059; C. D. PIBEL, Department of Chemistry, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. 20016-8014; A. MCILROY AND C. A. TAATJES, Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94551-0969.

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WB05			1min7:34

ELECTRONIC SPECTRA OF YOH AND YOD IN THE VISIBLE REGION; STRONG VIBRONIC COUPLING BETWEEN THE B¹

AND C¹

⁺ STATES.

A. G. ADAM, Department of Chemistry, University of New Brunswick, Bag Service 45222, Fredericton, N.B. E3B 6E2, Canada; K. ATHANASSENAS, C. T. KINGSTON, A. J. MERER, J. R. D. PEERS, S. J. RIXON, Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z1, Canada; AND D. A. GILLETT, Lambda-Physik, Inc., 3201 West Commercial Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309.

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WB06			1min7:35

DISPERSED FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY OF MoC, RuC, and PdC: AN EXAMINATION OF LOW-LYING ELECTRONIC STATES.

RYAN S. DABELL, RAYMOND G. MEYER AND MICHAEL D. MORSE, Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112.

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WB07			1min7:36

SPECTROSCOPY OF THE SO RADICAL.

JOHN M. F. ELKS AND COLIN M. WESTERN, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock's Close, Bristol. BS8 1TS. UK. (e-mail: John.Elks@bristol.ac.uk, C.M.Western@bristol.ac.uk).

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WB08			1min7:37

UV AND VISIBLE ABSORPTION CROSS-SECTIONS OF O₂.

R. COLIN, S. FALLY, M. CARLEER, UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES, LABORATOIRE DE CHIMIE PHYSIQUE MOLECULAIRE, CP160/09, 50, AV.F.D. ROOSEVELT, 1050 BRUSSELS, BELGIUM; B. COQUART, A. JENOUVRIER, M.-F. MERIENNE, GROUPE DE SPECTROMETRIE MOLECULAIRE ET ATMOSPHERIQUE, URAD1434, UFR SCIENCES, MOULIN DE LA HOUSSE, 51687 REIMS CEDEX 2, FRANCE; AND A. C. VANDAELE, INSTITUT D'AERONOMIE SPATIALE DE BELGIQUE, 3 AV.CIRCULAIRE, 1180 BRUSSELS, BELGIUM.

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WB09			1min7:38

TRAPPING AND SPECTROSCOPY OF MOLECULES IN COLD HELIUM DROPLETS.

FRANK RUEDIGER BRUEHL, M. KENT BALLARD AND WOLFGANG E. ERNST, Departments of Physics and Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, 104 Davey Laboratory, University Park, PA 16802.

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WB10			1min7:39

PREDISSOCIATION DYNAMICS AND DYNAMICS OF HCP: DIRECT DETECTION OF CP RADICAL.

HARUKI ISHIKAWA, TOSHIYUKI SASAKI AND NAOHIKO MIKAMI, Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Scienece, Tohoku University, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8578, Japan.

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WB11			1min7:40

STUDY OF VINYLIDENE-ACETYLENE ISOMERIZATION BY COULOMB EXPLOSION IMAGING.

J. LEVIN, Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, D--69029 Heidelberg, Germany; H. FELDMAN, A. BAER, D. BEN HAMU, D. ZAJFMAN, Z. VAGER, Department of Particle Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100, Israel.

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WB12			1min7:41

INVESTIGATION OF THE FORMYL AND ISOFORMYL STRUCTURAL ISOMERS BY COULOMB EXPLOSION IMAGING.

R. WESTER, U. HECHTFISCHER, L. KNOLL, M. LANGE, J. LEVIN, M. SCHEFFEL, D. SCHWALM, A. WOLF, Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, D-69029 Heidelberg, Germany; A. BAER, Z. VAGER, D. ZAJFMAN, Department of Particle Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100, Israel.

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WB13			1min7:42

EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATION OF BOND ANGLE DISTRIBUTION IN QUASILINEAR MOLECULES.

ADAM BAER, Z. VAGER, D. ZAJFMAN, Particle Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel; J. LEVIN, L. KNOLL, A. WOLF, R. WESTER, D. SCHWALM, Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, 69029 Heidelberg, Germany.

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WB14			1min7:43

COLLISIONAL PROCESSES NEAR THE CH B ² Sigma

^- v'=0,1 PREDISSOCIATION LIMIT AND THEIR APPLICATION TO LASER-INDUCED FLUORESCENCE FLAME DIAGNOSTICS.

ROBERT J. H. KLEIN-DOUWEL, JORGE LUQUE, JAY B. JEFFRIES, GREG P. SMITH AND DAVID R. CROSLEY, Molecular Physics Laboratory, SRI International, 333 Ravenswood Avenue, Menlo Park, California 94025.

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WB15			1min7:44

INVESTIGATION OF THE ROTATIONAL SPECTRUM OF BiO IN THE X²

ELECTRONIC STATE.

EDWARD A. COHEN, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91109-8099; DAMIAN M. GOODRIDGE AND KENTAROU KAWAGUCHI, Nobeyama Radio Observatory, Minamimaki, Minamisaku, Nagano 384-1305, Japan.

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WB16			1min7:45

SOLVATION OF MAGNESIUM AND SINGLY IONISED MAGNESIUM ATOMS IN NH₃ CLUSTERS , THEORY AND EXPERIMENT .

M. ELHANINE, B. SOEP, Laboratoire de Photophysique Moléculaire Bat 210 Université Paris Sud 91405 Orsay France; L. DUKAN, P. MAITRE, Laboratoire de Chimie Théorique, Universite Paris-Sud, Bât. 490; W. H. BRECKENRIDGE, S. MASSICK, Department of Chemistry University of Utah Salt Lake city.

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WB17			1min7:46

ISOTOPE EFFECTS ON STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF SOME RADICAL CATIONS STUDIED BY AB INITIO AND DFT CALCULATIONS AND ESR SPECTROSCOPY.

S. LUNELL AND T. FÄNGSTRÖM, Department of Quantum Chemistry, Uppsala University, Box 518, S-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden; P. WANG AND M. SHIOTANI, Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 739, Japan.

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WB18			1min7:47

A THEORETICAL STUDY OF THE ACETYLIDE ANION, HCC^-.

MIRJANA MLADENOVIC´, PETER BOTSCHWINA, Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Universität Göttingen,Tammannstraße 6,D-37077 Göttingen; PETER SEBALD, Fachbereich Chemie der Universität Kaiserslautern, Erwin-Schr\" odinger-Straße, D-67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany; STUART CARTER, Department of Chemistry, University of Reading, Reading RG6 2AD, United Kingdom.

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WB19			1min7:48

THE ELECTRONIC STATES OF THE FeH RADICAL~: A PROGRESS REPORT.

JOHN M BROWN, RICHARD F. BARROW, DANIEL F. HULLAH AND CATHERINE WILSON, The Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QZ, United Kingdom.

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WB20			1min7:49

PURE ROTATIONAL AND FINE-STRUCTURE TRANSITIONS OF NITRIC OXIDE (NO) IN ITS GROUND VIBRATIONAL STATE.

THOMAS D. VARBERG, Department of Chemistry, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN 55105; FRED STROH, Institute for Stratospheric Chemistry, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, D-52425 Jülich, Germany; KENNETH M. EVENSON, Time and Frequency Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO 80303.

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WB21			1min7:50

IDENTIFICATION OF NEW LOW-LYING ELECTRONIC STATES OF THE TiCl⁺ AND TiF⁺ MOLECULAR IONS BY DISPERSED LASER INDUCED FLUORESCENCE.

C. FOCSA, B. PINCHEMEL AND M. BOGEY, Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, Atomes et Molécules, UMR CNRS 8523, Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Lasers et Applications, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France.

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WB22			1min7:51

MILLIMETER-WAVE SPECTROSCOPY OF ALKALI AND ALKALINE-EARTH AMIDE SPECIES .

M. A. BREWSTER, P. M. SHERIDAN, J. M. THOMPSEN, J. XIN AND L. M. ZIURYS, Department of Chemistry, Department of Astronomy, and the Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85719.

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WB23			1min7:52

LIF STUDIES ON THE UNIMOLECULAR DECOMPOSITION OF CHEMICALLY ACTIVATED SILANOL.

ATSUKO TAKAHARA, RYUTA ARAKI, ATSUMU TEZAKI AND HIROYUKI MATSUI, The University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656 Japan.

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WB24			1min7:53

FAST-SCAN, PULSED-JET SUBMILLIMETER WAVE ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY OF TRANSIENT SPECIES.

DMITRY G. MELNIK, SANDHYA GOPALAKRISHNAN, TERRY A. MILLER, The Ohio State University, Dept. of Chemistry, Laser Spectroscopy Facility, 120 W. 18th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210; AND FRANK C. DE LUCIA, The Ohio State University, Dept. of Physics, Microwave Laboratory, 174 W. 18th Avenue, Columbus OH 43210.

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WB25			1min7:54

OPTICAL STARK MEASUREMENT OF THE C³ Delta

- X³

BAND OF TiS AND THE C¹ Sigma

⁺ - X¹

⁺ BAND OF ZrS.

ROBERT R. BOUSQUET, KEI-ICHI C. NAMIKI AND TIMOTHY C. STEIMLE, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, Az, 85287-1604.

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WB26			1min7:55

THE PERMANENT ELECTRIC DIPOLE MOMENTS OF THE A''¹ Sigma

⁺ AND A'¹

STATES OF PtC.

SARA BEATON, ROBERT BOUSQUET AND TIMOTHY STEIMLE, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1604.

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WB27			1min7:56

LIF JET SPECTOSCOPY OF METAL-BEARING FREE RADICALS .

MASARU FUKUSHIMA AND TAKASHI ISHIWATA, Department of Information Sciences, Hiroshima City University, Asa-Minami, Hiroshima 731-3194, Japan. .

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WB28			1min7:57

EFFECTS DETERMING THE 1+1^' PFI-ZEKE PHOTOELECTRON SPECTRUM OF ACETYLENE.

SHUENN-JIUN TANG, JIM JR-MIN LIN AND YEN-CHU HSU, Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica,P.O. Box 23-166, Taipei 107, Taiwan, R. O. C. and Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O. C..

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WB29			1min7:58

TRANSITION STATE DYNAMICS OF THE OH + OH > O (³ P) + H₂O REACTION.

HANS-JUERGEN DEYERL AND R. E. CONTINETTI, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego (UCSD), 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla CA 92093.

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WB30			1min7:59

THE CONSERVATION OF ANGULAR MOMENTUM IN POLYATOMIC PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS: H₂CO AND D₂CO.

SIOBHAN E. WAUGH, ONDREJ VOTAVA AND SCOTT H. KABLE, School of Chemistry, University of Sydney Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia.

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WB31			1min8:00

CROSSED BEAM STUDIES OF THE REACTION DYANMICS OF NITROGEN ATOMS WITH SATURATED AND UNSATURATED HYDROCARBONS: N(²D)+CH₄, C₂H₂, AND C₂H₄.

M. ALAGIA, N. BALUCANI, A. BERGEAT, L. CARTECHINI, P. CASAVECCHIA AND G. G. VOLPI, Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Perugia, 06123 Perugia, Italy.

WB32			1min8:01

ELECTRONIC SPECTROSCOPY OF THE CN-H₂/D₂ VAN DER WAALS COMPLEX.

YALING CHEN, ALEXEY L. KALEDIN AND MICHAEL C. HEAVEN, Department of Chemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322.

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WB33			1min8:02

DETERMINATION OF MOLECULAR CONSTANTS OF CS⁺ BY VELOCITY MODULATION LASER SPECTROSCOPY.

YUYAN LIU, HONGPING LIU, HUI GAO, CHUANXI DUAN, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, PRC; P. A. HAMILTION, Department of Chemistry, Queen Mary and Westfield College, Mile End Road, London, UK E1 4NS; P. B. DAVIES, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, UK CB2 1EW.

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