WI. BIO-MOLECULES

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 2002 - 1:30PM

Room: 1015 McPHERSON LAB

Chair: DAVID PRATT, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

WI01 INVITED TALK 30min1:30

FREE JET ABSORPTION MILLIMETER-WAVE SPECTROSCOPY OF MOLECULES OF BIOLOGICAL INTEREST AND OF THEIR COMPLEXES WITH WATER.

W. CAMINATI, P. G. FAVERO, A. MARIS, S. MELANDRI, P. OTTAVIANI, Dipartimento di Chimica "G.Ciamician", Universita' di Bologna, Via Selmi I-40126, Italy.

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WI02			15min2:05

MICROWAVE STUDIES OF BENZYL ALCOHOL.

KARISSA G. ATTICKS AND ROBERT K. BOHN, Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3060.

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WI03			15min2:22

BIOMEMETIC MOLECULES AND INTERNAL ROTOR SPLITTINGS.

R. J. LAVRICH, R. D. SUENRAM, D. F. PLUSQUELLIC, G. T. FRASER, J. T. HOUGEN AND W. J. STEVENS, Optical Technology Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899; M. J. TUBERGEN, Department of Chemistry, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242; Y. KAWASHIMA, Department of Applied Chemistry, Kanagawa Institute of Technology, Atsugi, Kanagawa 243-0292, Japan; EIZI HIROTA, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Hayama, Kanagawa 240-0193, Japan; N. OHASHI, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Kanazawa University, Kakuma, Kanazawa, Japan 920-1192.

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WI04			15min2:39

EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF PEPTIDE BONDS: THE C₇^eq CONFORMATION OF THE ALANINE DIPEPTIDE ANALOGUE N-ACETYL-ALANINE N'-METHYLAMIDE.

R. J. LAVRICH, D. F. PLUSQUELLIC, R. D. SUENRAM, G. T. FRASER AND W. J. STEVENS, Optical Technology Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899; M. J. TUBERGEN, Department of Chemistry, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242.

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WI05			15min2:56

PRELIMINARY RESULTS IN THE MICROWAVE SPECTRUM OF A PEPTIDE MIMETIC: THE ETHYL ACETAMIDOACETATE MOLECULE.

I. KLEINER, CNRS, Laboratoire de Photophysique Moléculaire, Université Paris Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France.; J. T. HOUGEN, R. D. SUENRAM, D. F. PLUSQUELLIC, R. J. LAVRICH, A. R. HIGHT WALKER, F. J. LOVAS, G. T. FRASER, Optical Technology Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD. 20899, USA.; J. ORTIGOSO, Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC, Serrano 119, Madrid, Spain.

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INTERMISSION

WI06			15min3:30

FOURIER TRANSFORM MICROWAVE SPECTRA OF N-METHYLFORMAMIDE.

YOSHIYUKI KAWASHIMA, TSUYOSHI USAMI, Department of Applied Chemistry, Kanagawa Institute of Technology, Atsugi, Kanagawa 243-0292, JAPAN; RICHARD D. SUENRAM, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899; AND EIZI HIROTA, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Hayama, Kanagawa 240-0193, JAPAN.

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WI07			15min3:47

FOURIER TRANSFORM MICROWAVE SPECTROSCOPY OF N-METHYLPROPIONAMIDE.

YOSHIYUKI KAWASHIMA, Department of Applied Chemistry, Kanagawa Institute of Technology, Atsugi, Kanagawa 243-0292, JAPAN; RICHARD D. SUENRAM, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899; AND EIZI HIROTA, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Hayama, Kanagawa 240-0193, JAPAN.

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WI08			15min4:04

LINE ASSIGNMENTS AND GLOBAL ANALYSIS OF THE TUNNELING-ROTATIONAL MICROWAVE ABSORPTION SPECTRUM OF DIMETHYL METHYLPHOSPHONATE.

N. OHASHI, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Kanazawa University, Kakuma, Kanazawa, Japan 920-1192; J. PYKA, Faculty of Chemistry, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan´, Poland; G. YU. GOLUBIATNIKOV, Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Uljanov Street 46, 603600 Nizhnii Novgorod, Russia; J. T. HOUGEN, R. D. SUENRAM, F. J. LOVAS, Optical Technology Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD. 20899, USA; A. LESARRI, Departamento de Quimica-Fisica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Valladolid, 47005, Valladolid, Spain; Y. KAWASHIMA, Department of Applied Chemistry, Kanagawa Institute of Technology, 1030 Shimo-ogino, Atsugi, Kanagawa, Japan 243-0292.

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WI09			10min4:21

THE CONFORMATIONS OF BUTAN-2,3-DIOL BY FOURIER TRANSFORM MICROWAVE SPECTROSCOPY.

J. P. I. HEARN AND B. J. HOWARD, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QZ, UK..

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WI10			15min4:33

HIGH RESOLUTION SPECTROSCOPIC STUDIES OF 1-(1-NAPHTHYL)ETHYLAMINE IN S₀ AND S₁: EXPLORING THE DEPENDENCE OF CIRCULAR DICHROISM ON CONFORMATIONAL STRUCTURE.

R. J. LAVRICH, D. F. PLUSQUELLIC, T. PETRALLI-MALLOW, T. M. KORTER, S. R. DAVIS AND R. D. SUENRAM, Optical Technology Division, National Institute of Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899.

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