RA. VAN DER WAALS MOLECULES

THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 2002 - 8:30AM

Room: 1153 SMITH LAB

Chair: BRIAN HOWARD, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom

RA01 INVITED TALK 30min8:30

INFRARED SPECTRA OF OCS-HELIUM AND OCS-HYDROGEN CLUSTERS.

A. R. W. MCKELLAR, Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0R6, Canada.

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RA02			15min9:05

ROTATIONAL SPECTRA AND AB INITIO POTENTIAL ENERGY SURFACE OF THE H₂-OCS VAN DER WAALS COMPLEX.

KELLY HIGGINS, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455; ZHENHONG YU AND WILLIAM KLEMPERER, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138.

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RA03			15min9:22

MILLIMETER WAVE SPECTROSCOPY OF THE INTERNAL ROTATION BANDS OF He-HCN AND He-DCN..

KENSUKE HARADA, KEIICHI TANAKA AND TAKEHIKO TANAKA, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, Kyushu University, Hakozaki, Higashiku, Fukuoka, 812-8581 JAPAN; SHINKO NANBU AND MUTSUMI AOYAGI, Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki, 444-8585, Japan.

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RA04			15min9:39

MILLIMETER WAVE SPECTROSCOPY OF THE VAN DER WAALS BENDING BANDS OF Ne-HCN AND Ne-DCN.

KENSUKE HARADA, AKIHITO OKUMURA, MASANORI TAKAGI, KEIICHI TANAKA AND TAKEHIKO TANAKA, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, Hakozaki, Higashiku, Fukuoka, 812-8581 JAPAN; SHINKO NANBU AND MUTSUMI AOYAGI, Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki, 444-8585, Japan.

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RA05			15min9:56

THE MICROWAVE ROTATIONAL SPECTRUM OF THE Ne-HCCCN VAN DER WAALS COMPLEX.

AIKO HUCKAUF, WOLFGANG JÄGER AND YUNJIE XU, Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2G2, Canada.

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INTERMISSION

RA06			15min10:30

DIRECT INFRARED ABSORPTION SPECTRA OF HELIUM CLUSTERS SEEDED WITH AN OCS MOLECULE.

JIAN TANG AND A. R. W. MCKELLAR, Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0R6, Canada.

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RA07			15min10:47

ROTATIONAL SPECTROSCOPIC STUDY OF He_n-OCS CLUSTERS.

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

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RA08			15min11:04

COUPLED CLUSTER CALCULATIONS FOR COMPLEXES BETWEEN AN ARGON ATOM AND A
LINEAR MOLECULE OR CATION.

PETER BOTSCHWINA AND RAINER OSWALD, Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Universität Göttingen, Tammanstraß e 6, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany.

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RA09			15min11:21

ULTRAHIGH RESOLUTION SPECTROSCOPY OF FROZEN VAN DER WAALS MOLECULES IN PARA-HYDROGEN CRYSTALS.

T. OKA, Y. ZHANG, C. M. LINDSAY, Department of Chemistry and Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637; AND T. MOMOSE, Department of Chemistry, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606 Japan.

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RA10			15min11:38

THE INFRARED SPECTRUM OF THE BENZENE CATION.

JOOST M. BAKKER, ROB G. SATINK, GERT VON HELDEN AND GERARD MEIJER, FOM-Institute for Plasmaphysics Rijnhuizen, Edisonbaan 14,NL-3439 MN Nieuwegein, The Netherlands.

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RA11			15min11:55

PHOTODETACHMENT SPECTROSCOPY OF ANIONS IN THE VICINITY OF THEIR ELECTRON DETACHMENT THRESHOLD.

T. PINO, M. TULEJ, F. GÜTHE, M. PACHKOV AND J. P. MAIER, Institute for Physical Chemistry, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 80, CH-4056, Basel, Switzerland..

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