TF. SPECTROSCOPY RELATED TO COMBUSTION

TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1999 - 1:30PM

Room: 1153 SMITH LAB

Chair: ERIC ROHLFING, Sandia National Labortories, Livermore, CA

TF01 Invited Talk 30min1:30

ADVANCES IN LASER TECHNIQUES FOR SHOCK TUBE STUDIES OF CHEMICAL KINETICS.

R. K. HANSON, High Temperature Gasdynamics Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-3030.

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TF02			15min2:05

QUANTITATIVE INTENSITY MEASUREMENTS IN THE USE OF INFRARED KINETIC SPECTROSCOPY TO INVESTIGATE COMBUSTION RADICAL KINETICS.

R. F. CURL AND G. P. GLASS, Department of Chemistry and Rice Quantum Institute, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005.

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TF03			15min2:22

PHOTOIONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRIC MEASUREMENTS OF COMBUSTION-RELATED TRANSIENT AND METASTABLE SPECIES.

BRANKO RUSCIC, MARITONI LITORJA AND CHENGBIN XU, Chemistry Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439.

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TF04			15min2:39

APPLICATIONS OF TRANSIENT FM DOPPLER SPECTROSCOPY IN UNIMOLECULAR REACTIONS.

GREGORY E. HALL, M. L. COSTEN, Chemistry Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973; H. KATAYANAGI, Institute for Molecular Sciences, Okazaki, Japan.

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TF05			15min2:56

ROTATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY OF ORGANIC RADICALS AND CARBENES RELEVANT TO COMBUSTION.

C. A. GOTTLIEB, M. C. MCCARTHY AND P. THADDEUS, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138.

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INTERMISSION

TF06			15min3:30

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS OF VIBRATIONAL MODE COUPLING IN METHANOL.

DAVID S. PERRY AND J. GO, Department of Chemistry, University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325-3601.

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TF07			15min3:47

THEORETICAL QUESTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH UTILIZING AB INITIO RESULTS TO AID IN INTERPRETATION OF VIBRATION-TORSION-ROTATION SPECTRA.

JON T. HOUGEN, MIRZA A. MEKHTIEV, Optical Technology Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersurg, MD USA 20899-8441; LI-HONG XU, Department of Physical Sciences, University of New Brunswick, Saint John, N.B., Canada E2L 4L5; RONALD M. LEES, Department of Physics, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, N.B., Canada E3B 5A3.

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TF08			15min4:04

AB INITIO RESULTS ON COUPLING BETWEEN THE LARGE AMPLITUDE TORSION AND SMALL AMPLITUDE VIBRATIONS IN METHANOL.

LI-HONG XU, Department of Physical Sciences, University of New Brunswick, Saint John, N.B., Canada E2L 4L5; M. A. MEKHTIEV, J. T. HOUGEN, Optical Technology Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD USA 20899-8441; R. M. LEES, Department of Physics, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, N.B., Canada E3B 5A3.

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TF09			15min4:21

EXTENDED ASSIGNMENTS, VIBRATIONAL COUPLING, AND MODELING FOR THE C-O STRETCH BAND OF CH₃OH.

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.

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TF10			15min4:38

PROGRESS ON THE ASSIGNMENT AND FIT OF THE LOWEST FUNDAMENTAL BAND OF ACETALDEHYDE

₁₀, BURIED IN THE TORSIONAL PRECONTINUUM AT 509 cm^-1.

GIOVANNI MORUZZI, Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università di Pisa and INFM, Piazza Torricelli 2, I-56126 Pisa, Italy; ISABELLE KLEINER, Laboratoire de Photophysique Moléculaire, Université de Paris Sud, 91405, Orsay, France; NASSER MOAZZEN-AHMADI, Department of Physics, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada T1K 3M4; A. R. W. MCKELLAR, Steacie Institute for Molecular Science, National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada K1A OR6; JON T. HOUGEN, Optical Technology Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8441.

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TF11			15min4:55

l-UNCOUPLING AND ROTATIONAL STRUCTURE IN VIBRATIONALLY AUTOIONIZING RYDBERG STATES OF HCO CONVERGING TO THE (010) LIMIT.

ERIC J. ZÜCKERMAN, HARTMUT G. HEDDERICH AND EDWARD R. GRANT, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1393.

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TF12			15min5:12

AN EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATION OF ANHARMONIC TERMS IN THE VIBRATIONAL HAMILTONIAN OF HCO⁺..

ROBERT J. FOLTYNOWICZ, JASON D. ROBINSON, HARTMUT G. HEDDERICH AND EDWARD R. GRANT, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1393.

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TF13			10min5:29

THE DISSOCIATION OF ACETOPHENONE AND HIGH RESOLUTION SPECTROSCOPY OF BENZOYL RADICAL..

JASON D. ROBINSON, ROBERT J. FOLTYNOWICZ AND EDWARD R. GRANT, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1393.

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