RA. MINI-SYMPOSIUM: METHANOL

THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1998 - 8:30AM

Room: 1153 SMITH LAB

Chair: THOMAS RIZZO, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

RA01 INVITED TALK 30min8:30

HOW MUCH DO WE KNOW (AND STILL NEED TO LEARN) ABOUT THE METHANOL MOLECULE?.

LI-HONG XU, Department of Physical Sciences, University of New Brunswick, Saint John, N.B., Canada E2L 4L5.

RA02			15min9:05

CONTACT TRANSFORMATIONS AND DETERMINABLE PARAMETERS IN SPECTROSCOPIC FITTING HAMILTONIANS.

MIRZA A. MEKHTIEV AND JON T. HOUGEN, Optical Technology Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899.

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RA03			15min9:22

METHANOL AND THE LONG WAY TOWARDS AUTOMATED SPECTRAL INTERPRETATION.

GIOVANNI MORUZZI, Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università di Pisa, Piazza Torricelli 2, I-56126 Pisa, Italy.

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RA04			10min9:39

PRECISE DETERMINATION OF DIPOLE MOMENT OF METHANOL BY MICROWAVE STARK SPECTROSCOPY.

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RA05			5min9:51

MEASUREMENT OF TORSIONALLY EXCITED MICROWAVE TRANSITIONS IN METHANOL-D₄.

INDRANATH MUKHOPADHYAY, Laser Programme, Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore 452 013, India; K. V. L. N. SASTRY, Department of Physics, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, N.B., E3B 5A3, Canada; MANFRED WINNEWISSER, Physikalisch Chemisches Institut der Justus Liebig Universitaet, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 58, D-35392 Giessen, Germany.

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INTERMISSION

RA06	CANCELLED		10min10:15

MICROWAVE SPECTRA OF ISOTOPIC SPECIES OF METHANOL.

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

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RA07			15min10:27

HIGH RESOLUTION INFRARED SPECTRA OF THE

₉ AND 2

₄ BANDS IN METHANOL.

X. WANG, Y. MA, A. CHIROKOLAVA AND D. S. PERRY, Department of Chemistry, University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325-3601.

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RA08			15min10:44

CO₂ LASER SIDEBAND-MICROWAVE DOUBLE RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY OF METHANOL IN THE upsilon

_co=1 VIBRATIONAL STATE.

Z. D. SUN, S. OGURA, F. MATSUSHIMA, S. TSUNEKAWA AND K. TAKAGI, Department of Physics, Toyama University, Toyama 930-8555, Japan.

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RA09			15min11:01

THE FINE STRUCTURE OF ROTATIONAL COHERENT SPECTROSCOPY.

Y. ZHAO, Department of Physics, Northwest Normal University, LanZhou, 730070, PR China; GUO Z. HE, The key Lab. of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Dalian, 116023, PR China.

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RA10			15min11:18

TORSIONAL ANALYSIS OF METHANOL IN THE OH VIBRATIONAL MANIFOLD UP TO v_OH=6.

D. S. PERRY, Department of Chemistry, University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325-3601; O. V. BOYARKIN AND T. R. RIZZO, Laboratoire de chimie physique moléculaire, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.

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RA11			10min11:35

HIGH RESOLUTION INFRARED SPECTRA OF ¹³C-METHANOL IN THE OH-STRETCH REGION.

A. CHIROKOLAVA, X. WANG, T. J. CRONIN AND D. S. PERRY, Department of Chemistry, University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325-3601; L.-H. XU, Department of Physical Sciences, University of New Brunswick, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada E2L 4L5.

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RA12			15min11:47

FAR-INFRARED LASER STARK SPECTROSCOPY OF METHANOL ISOTOPOMERS.

M. JACKSON, G. R. SUDHAKARAN, Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, WI 54601; A. SILVEIRA JR., Department of Chemistry, SUNY at Oswego, Oswego, NY 13126; I. MUKHOPADHYAY, Laser Programme, Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore, India, 452 013; AND R. M. LEES, Department of Physics, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, N.B., Canada E3B 5A3.

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