RI. MINI-SYMPOSIUM: NEW TECHNIQUES AND CHALLENGES FOR ROTATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY

THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 2006 - 1:30pm

Room: 1015 McPHERSON LAB

Chair: STEPHEN COOKE, University of North Texas, Denton, TX

RI01 INVITED TALK 30min1:30

HIGH RESOLUTION MICROWAVE SPECTRA OF He_N--~~AND (H₂)_N--LINEAR MOLECULE CLUSTERS.

WOLFGANG JÄGER, Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2G2.

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RI02			15min2:05

AN EMPERICAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE CENTRIFUGAL DISTORTION AND ROTATIONAL CONSTANTS OF ROTORS SOLVATED IN SUPERFLUID HELIUM DROPLETS.

C. MICHAEL LINDSAY AND ROGER E. MILLER, Department of Chemistry, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599.

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RI03			15min2:22

ROTATIONAL DYNAMICS OF SMALL MOLECULES IN QUANTUM SOLIDS AND LIQUIDS.

MARIO E. FAJARDO, AFRL/MNME, Energetic Materials Branch, Ordnance Division, U.S. Air Force Research Lab, 2306 Perimeter Rd., Eglin AFB, FL 32542-5910. mario.fajardo@eglin.af.mil.

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RI04			15min2:39

MODELS FOR ROTATION OF MOLECULES IN LIQUID HELIUM NANODROPLETS.

KEVIN K. LEHMANN, Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia.

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RI05			15min2:56

THE ROTATIONAL SPECTRUM OF THE PYRROLE-AMMONIA COMPLEX.

HEINRICH MÄDER, CHRISTIAN RENSING, FRIEDRICH TEMPS, Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Universität Kiel, Olshausenstr. 40, D-24098 Kiel, Germany.

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RI06			15min3:13

THE INTERMOLECULAR STRUCTURE OF THE PHENOL DIMER AND THE BENZONITRILE DIMER IN THE S₀ AND S₁ STATE DETERMINED BY HIGH RESOLUTION ROTATIONALLY RESOLVED ELECTRONIC SPECTROSCOPY.

W. LEO MEERTS, IVO KALKMAN, GIEL BERDEN AND MARLOES VAN BEEK, Molecular- and Biophysics Group, Institute for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9010, NL-6500 GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands; M. SCHMITT, MARCEL BÖHM, CHRISTIAN RATZER, DANIEL KRÜGLER, SWEN SIEGERT AND KARL KLEINERMANNS, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Institut für Physikalische Chemie, D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany..

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RI07			15min3:30

DYNAMIC ROTATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY OF ALLYL CYANIDE: IR-CHIRPED-PULSE FOURIER TRANSFORM MICROWAVE (CP-FTMW) DOUBLE RESONANCE.

GORDON G. BROWN, BRIAN M. SILLER, JASON J. PAJSKI, KEVIN O. DOUGLASS, BRIAN C. DIAN AND BROOKS H. PATE, Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, McCormick Rd., P.O. Box 400319, Charlottesville, VA 22904.

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INTERMISSION

RI08			15min4:00

CONTINUOUS-WAVE TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY APPLIED TO MAINSTREAM CIGARETTE SMOKE ANALYSIS..

ARNAUD CUISSET, DAMIEN BIGOURD, SOPHIE MATTON, FRANCIS HINDLE, ERIC FERTEIN, ROBIN BOCQUET, GAEL MOURET, Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère, CNRS UMR-8101, Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale, 189A Ave. Maurice Schumann, 59140 Dunkerque, France.

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RI09			15min4:17

SIGNATURE OF CONFORMATIONAL RELAXATION IN THE MICROWAVE SPECTRUM OF ETHYL TRIFLUOROACETATE, (CF₃COO-CH₂CH₃).

NANCY S. TRUE, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, CA 95616; ROBERT K. BOHN, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3060.

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RI10			15min4:34

FINGERPRINTS OF NITROGENOUS BASES BY LASER ABLATION FOURIER TRANSFORM MICROWAVE SPECTROSCOPY.

J. L. ALONSO, V. VAQUERO, I. PENA, J. C. LÓPEZ, M. E. SANZ, W. CAMINATI AND A. LESARRI, Grupo de Espectroscopía Molecular (GEM), Departamento de Química Física y Química Inorgánica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Valladolid, 47005 Valladolid, Spain .

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RI11			15min4:51

GAS PHASE STRUCTURE OF AMINO ACIDS: LASER ABLATION JET-COOLED ROTATIONAL STUDIES.

J. L. ALONSO, A. LESARRI, S. BLANCO, M. E. SANZ, E. J. COCINERO AND J. C. LÓPEZ, Grupo de Espectroscopía Molecular (GEM), Departamento de Química Física y Química Inorgánica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Valladolid, 47005 Valladolid, Spain .

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RI12			15min5:08

ROTATIONAL SPECTRUM, ELECTRIC DIPOLE MOMENT AND STRUCTURE OF SALICYL ALDEHYDE.

Z. KISIEL, O. DOROSH, L. PSZCZOLKOWSKI, Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Al. Lotników 32/46, 02-668 Warszawa, Poland; M. KAŃSKA, T. M. KRYGOWSKI, Department of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 1, 02-093 Warszawa, Poland.

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RI13			15min5:25

CONFORMATIONAL ISOMERISM IN 1-HEPTANAL.

JONATHAN M. FISHER, LI-HONG XU, Centre for Laser, Atomic and Molecular Sciences (CLAMS), Dept. of Physical Sciences, Univ. of New Brunswick, Canada E2L 4L5; R. D. SUENRAM, Optical Technology Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8441; BROOKS PATE, KEVIN DOUGLASS, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4319.

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RI14			15min5:42

ASSIGNMENT OF GG, GG', TT and TG CONFORMERS IN THE FASSST ROTATIONAL SPECTRUM OF \hboxN-PROPANOL.

Z. KISIEL, O. DOROSH, Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Al. Lotników 32/46, 02-668 Warszawa, Poland; A. MAEDA, F. C. DE LUCIA, E. HERBST, Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210.

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