WH. RADICALS AND IONS

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 2001 - 1:30PM

Room: 1015 McPHERSON LAB

Chair: YEN-CHU HSU, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

WH01 15min1:30

JET-DISCHARGE CAVITY RINGDOWN SPECTROSCOPY OF SELECTED IONIZED POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS.

L. BIENNIER, F. SALAMA, L. J. ALLAMANDOLA, NASA--Ames Research Center, Space Science Division, MS 245-6, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000, USA; J. J. SCHERER, A. O'KEEFE, Los Gatos Research, 67 East Evelyn Ave., Suite 3, Mountain View, CA 94041, USA.

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WH02			15min1:47

IS C₇^- REALLY A DIFFUSE INTERSTELLAR BAND CARRIER?.

BENJAMIN J. MCCALL, DONALD G. YORK, TAKESHI OKA, Department of Chemistry, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, and the Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637.

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WH03			15min2:04

VIBRATIONAL STATE DISTRIBUTION AND RELAXATION OF VINOXY RADICALS.

HONGMEI SU AND RICHARD BERSOHN, Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027.

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WH04			15min2:21

COMPUTATIONAL STUDY OF THE POSSIBLE CONFOMERS OF THE PENTOXY RADICAL TO AID IN THE VIBRONIC ASSIGNMENT OF JET-COOLED ALKOXY RADICALS.

CHRISTOPHER C. CARTER, SANDHYA GOPALAKRISHNAN, PATRICK R. MCCARREN, CHRISTOPHER M. HADAD AND TERRY A. MILLER, The Ohio State University, Dept. of Chemistry, Laser Spectroscopy Facility, 120 W. 18th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210.

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WH05			15min2:38

LASER EXCITATION SPECTRA OF LARGE ALKOXY RADICALS CONTAINING 5 TO 12 CARBON ATOMS.

SANDHYA GOPALAKRISHNAN, CHRISTOPHER C. CARTER, JEFFREY R. ATWELL, TERRY A. MILLER, The Ohio State University, Dept. of Chemistry, Laser Spectroscopy Facility, 120 W. 18th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210.

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WH06			15min2:55

HIGH RESOLUTION SPECTROSCOPY OF ALKOXY RADICALS IN A SUPERSONIC FREE-JET.

SANDHYA GOPALAKRISHNAN, CHRISTOPHER C. CARTER, VADIM STAKHURSKY AND TERRY A. MILLER, The Ohio State University, Dept. of Chemistry, Laser Spectroscopy Facility, 120 W. 18th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210.

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WH07			10min3:12

PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS OF THE A-X SYSTEM OF THE CALCIUM MONOMETHOXIDE RADICAL : THE ORIGIN BAND.

P. CROZET, F. MARTIN, A. J. ROSS, Laboratoire de Spectrométrie Ionique et Moléculaire (UMR 5579 CNRS), Bâtiment A. Kastler, Université Lyon I, Domaine Scientifique de la Doua, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France; A. G. ADAM AND M. DICK, Department of Chemistry, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada E3B 6E2 .

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WH08			15min3:24

LIF SPECTROSCOPY OF ASYMMETRIC DEUTERATED METHOXY.

ILIA J. KALINOVSKI, X. L. CHEN, WAI Y. FAN, C. BRADLEY MOORE, Chemical Sciences Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Department of Chemistry of UC Berkeley, California 94720 and Department of Chemistry, The Ohio State University, 120 W. 18th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210.

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INTERMISSION

WH09			15min4:00

COUPLED CLUSTER CALCULATIONS FOR MOLECULES IN TRIPLET GROUND STATES.

P. BOTSCHWINA, Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Universität Göttingen, Tammannstraße 6, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany.

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WH10			15min4:17

INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY OF HYDROGEN PEROXIDE AND ITS PYROLYSIS PRODUCTS IN SUPERFLUID LIQUID HELIUM DROPLETS.

JOCHEN KÜPPER, KLAAS NAUTA, DAVID T. MOORE AND ROGER E. MILLER, University of North Carolina, Department of Chemistry, Chapel Hill, NC 27599.

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WH11			15min4:34

OBSERVATION OF THE A-X ELECTRONIC TRANSITION FOR VARIOUS PEROXY RADICALS.

SERGEY J. ZALYUBOVSKY, JEFF GRAY, TERRY A. MILLER, Laser Spectroscopy Facility, Department of Chemistry, The Ohio State University, 120 W. 18th Avenue, Columbus OH 43210.

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WH12			15min4:51

OBSERVATION OF THE A-X ELECTRONIC TRANSITION OF THE CF₃O₂ RADICAL.

SERGEY J. ZALYUBOVSKY, JEFF GRAY, DONGBING WANG AND TERRY A. MILLER, Laser Spectroscopy Facility, Department of Chemistry, The Ohio State University, 120 W. 18th Avenue, Columbus OH 43210.

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WH13			15min5:08

OBSERVATION OF PURELY ROTATIONAL AUTOIONIZATION IN THE IONIZATION THRESHOLD REGION OF METHYL RADICAL.

BRANKO RUSCIC, HAIRONG SHANG, CHENGBIN XU, MARY T. BERRY, MARITONI LITORJA AND ROBERT L. ASHER, Chemistry Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, and Chemistry Division, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD.

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WH14			15min5:25

MUON SPIN SPECTROSCOPY OF THE RADICAL FORMED BY MUONIUM ADDITION TO DIKETENE.

I. MCKENZIE, P. W. PERCIVAL, J.-C. BRODOVITCH, K. GHANDI, B. ADDISON-JONES, Department of Chemistry and TRIUMF, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby B.C., Canada V5A 1S6.

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