TF. SYMPOSIUM: VIBRATION-ROTATION PATTERNS

TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 1997 - 1:30PM

Room: 1153 SMITH LAB

Chair: ROBERT FIELD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts

TF01 INVITED TALK 30min1:30

OBSERVATION OF THE ``ISOMERIZATION'' STATES OF HCP: ``ISOMERIZATION'' STATE VS. ``NORMAL-MODE-TYPE'' STATE .

H. ISHIKAWA, C. NAGAO AND N. MIKAMI, Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, JAPAN 980-77 ; R. W. FIELD, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.

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TF02			15min2:05

POSSIBLE SIGNATURES OF CONFORMATIONAL ISOMERIZATION IN THE HIGH RESOLUTION INFRARED SPECTRUM OF 2-FLUOROETHANOL.

BROOKS H. PATE, DAVID GREEN, SARAH HAMMOND AND JOHN KESKE, Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22901.

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TF03			15min2:22

STRUCTURALLY MIXED MOLECULAR EIGENSTATES OF 2-FLUOROETHANOL RESULTING FROM CONFORMATIONAL ISOMERIZATION.

DAVID A. MCWHORTER, EVAN HUDSPETH AND BROOKS H. PATE, Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22901.

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TF04			15min2:39

NEW HIGH RESOLUTION ANALYSIS OF D₂CO IN THE 8-12 µm REGION BY FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROSCOPY.

A. PERRIN, J.-M. FLAUD, Laboratoire de Photophysique Moléculaire, CNRS, Université Paris Sud, Campus d'Orsay, Bat 210, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France; A. PREDOI-CROSS, Physics Department, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A7; B. WINNEWISSER, G. MELLAU, S. KLEE, Justus Liebig Universit\Hat, , Physikalisch-Chemisches Institut Heinrich-Buff-Ring 58, D-35392 Giessen, Deutschland.

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TF05			15min2:56

NEW HIGH RESOLUTION ANALYSIS OF H₂CO IN THE 3.6 and 4.3 µm REGION BY FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROSCOPY.

A. PERRIN, J.-M. FLAUD, Laboratoire de Photophysique Moléculaire, CNRS, Université Paris Sud, Campus d'Orsay, Bat 210, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France; A. VALENTIN, Laboratoire de Physique Moléculaire et Applications, C.N.R.S., Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Tour 13, 4 Place Jussieu, 75252 Paris, Cedex 05, France; L. R. BROWN, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA.

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TF06			15min3:13

INTERACTION OF THE TORSION AND C-H STRETCH VIBRATIONS IN METHANOL: A LOCAL MODE TREATMENT .

DAVID S. PERRY AND XIAOLIANG WANG, Department of Chemistry, University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325-3601..

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INTERMISSION

TF07	INVITED TALK		30min3:45

HIGHLY EXCITED VIBRATIONAL STATES IN HCP: TRANSITION FROM NORMAL-MODE BENDING TO ISOMERIZATION MOTION.

R. SCHINKE, H.-M. KELLER AND C. BECK, MPI für Strömungsforschung, D-37073 Göttingen, Germany; S. C. FARANTOS, Department of Chemistry, University of Crete, Iraklion 711 10, Crete, Greece.

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TF08			15min4:20

THE BARRIER TO FREE PSEUDOROTATION IN THE SODIUM TRIMER.

WOLFGANG E. ERNST, DAVID T. VITUCCIO AND OLEG GOLONZKA, Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802.

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TF09			15min4:37

A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON ISOMERIZATION DYNAMICS ILLUSTRATED BY HCN -> HNC.

BELA M. GAZDY, JOEL M. BOWMAN, FEDOR N. DZEGILENKO, Department of Chemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 30322.

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TF10			15min4:54

HIERARCHICAL ANALYSIS OF MOLECULAR SPECTRA.

MICHAEL J. DAVIS, Chemistry Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439.