FA. MINI-SYMPOSIUM: METHANOL

FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1998 - 8:30AM

Room: 1153 SMITH LAB

Chair: LI-HONG XU, University of New Brunswick, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

FA01 INVITED TALK 30min8:30

SPECTROSCOPY AND DYNAMICS OF HIGHLY VIBRATIONALLY EXCITED METHANOL.

THOMAS R. RIZZO, OLEG V. BOYARKIN, MATHIEU SCHMID, Laboratoire de chimie physique moléculaire, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland; ANDREI CHIROKOLAVA AND DAVID S. PERRY, Department of Chemistry, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, 44325.

FA02	CANCELLED				15min9:05

UNDERSTANDING THE METHANOL 5

_OH-4

_OH/1

_CH IVR FRAGMENTATION ASYMMETRY.

RYAN PEARMAN AND MARTIN GRUEBELE, Department of Chemistry and Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801.

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FA03			15min9:22

A TORSION-ROTATION-VIBRATION INTERACTION ANALYSIS OF THE LOWEST IN-PLANE BEND AND FIRST EXCITED TORSIONAL STATE ROTATIONAL SPECTRUM OF THE C_3V INTERNAL ROTOR C₂H₅CN.

J. C. PEARSON, HERBERT M. PICKETT, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Mail Stop 183-301, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109-8099; K. V. L. N. SASTRY, Department of Physics, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, E3B 5A3 Canada.

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FA04			15min9:39

TORSIONAL MIXING AND FRACTIONATION IN THE FTIR SPECTRUM OF CH₃OH FROM 1050-1450 CM^-1.

R. M. LEES, Department of Physics, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, N.B., Canada E3B 5A3; LI-HONG XU, Department of Physical Sciences, University of New Brunswick, Saint John, N.B., Canada E2L 4L5; J. W. C. JOHNS, Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, Canada K1A 0R6.

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INTERMISSION

FA05			15min10:15

REVIEW OF THE INTERACTIONS ENCOUNTERED IN OUR STUDY OF THE CH₃-ROCKING AND OH-BENDING FUNDAMENTALS OF ¹³CH₃OH.

ADRIANA PREDOI-CROSS, Department of Physics, University of Toronto, 60 St. George St., Toronto, Ont. M5S 1A7, Canada; RONALD M. LEES, Centre for Laser Applications and Molecular Science, Department of Physics, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, E3B5A3, Canada.

FA06			15min10:32

CORRELATION PROBLEMS AND CORRELATION-FREE TORSION ROTATION HAMILTONIAN FOR A MOLECULAR WITH AN INTERNAL ROTOR.

YUN-BO DUAN, LI WANG AND KOJIRO TAKAGI, Department of Physics, Toyama University, Toyama 930-8555, Japan.

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FA07			15min10:49

THE CALCULATION OF MOLECULAR PARAMETERS FOR A MOLECULE WITH AN INTERNAL ROTOR.

LI WANG, YUN-BO DUAN AND KOJIRO TAKAGI, Department of Physics, Toyama University, Toyama 930-8555, Japan.

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FA08			15min11:06

FOURIER-TRANSFORM FAR-INFRARED SPECTRA OF ¹³CD₃OH IN THE 10 TO 800 cm^-1 RANGE: RITZ AND GLOBAL ANALYSIS.

LI-HONG XU, R. M. LEES, Department of Physics, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, N.B., Canada E3B 5A3; G. MORUZZI, Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università di Pisa, Piazza Torricelli 2, I-56126 Pisa, Italy; J. W. C. JOHNS, Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ont., Canada K1A 0R6; B. P. WINNEWISSER AND M. WINNEWISSER, Physikalisch-Chemisches Institut der Justus-Liebig-Universität, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 58, D-35392 Giessen, Germany.

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