TH. MICROWAVE

TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 2000 - 1:30PM

Room: 1015 McPHERSON LAB

Chair: SCOTT DAVIS, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD

TH01 15min1:30

COMPARISON OF He AND H₂ PRESSURE BROADENING OF NH₃ FROM 15 TO 40 K.

D. R. WILLEY, R. E. TIMLIN, M. DERAMO, P. L. PONDILLO, D. M. WESOLEK AND R. W. WIG, Department of Physics, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA 16335 .

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TH02			15min1:47

THE ROTATIONAL TORSIONAL SPECTRUM OF THE

₅/2

₉ DYAD OF NITRIC ACID.

DOUGLAS T. PETKIE, Department of Physics, Ohio Northern University, Ada, OH 45810; THOMAS M. GOYETTE, University of Massachusetts, Submillimeter Technology Lab, 175 Cabot Street, Lowell, Massachusetts, 01854; SIEGHARD ALBERT, Laboratorium für Physikalische Chemie, ETH Zürich, CH-8092 Zürich Switzerland; PAUL HELMINGER, Department of Physics, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL 36688; REBECCA A. H. BUTLER AND FRANK C. DE LUCIA, Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, 174 West 18th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210-1106.

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TH03			15min2:04

MICROWAVE INVESTIGATION OF SULFURIC ACID MONOHYDRATE.

D. L. FIACCO, S. W. HUNT AND K. R. LEOPOLD, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455.

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TH04			10min2:21

THE SUBMILLIMETER-WAVE SPECTRUM OF TRANS- AND CIS-CROTONONITRILE (CH₃CH=CHCN).

BRIAN J. DROUIN AND JOHN C. PEARSON, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109-8099 .

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TH05			15min2:33

THE PURE ROTATIONAL SPECTRA OF LANTHANUM MONOHALIDES.

DARYL S. RUBINOFF, COREY J. EVANS AND MICHAEL C. L. GERRY, Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, B. C., Canada, V6T 1Z1.

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TH06			15min2:50

MICROWAVE SPECTRA AND MOLECULAR STRUCTURE OF ACETYLENEMETHYLDIOXORHENIUM,
A RHENIUM METALACYCLOPROPENE.

STEPHEN KUKOLICH, BRIAN DROUIN, OLIVER INDRIS AND JENNIFER DANNEMILLER, Department of Chemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 (Present Address for B. Drouin: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109); JOCHEN ZOLLER AND WOLFGANG HERRMANN, Anorganisch-Chemisches Institut der Technischen Universität München, Lichtenbergstrasse 4, D-85747 Garching bei München, Germany.

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TH07			15min3:07

EXTENSION OF TIME-RESOLVED DOUBLE RESONANCE STUDIES OF ROTATIONAL ENERGY TRANSFER TO AN OBLATE SYMMETRIC ROTOR.

MATTHEW M. BEAKY, Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708; DAVID D. SKATRUD, Physics Division, U.S. Army Research Office, RTP, NC 27709.

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INTERMISSION

TH08			15min3:40

SUBMILLIMETER WAVE ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY OF PSEUDOROTATIONAL TRANSITIONS IN TETRAHYDROFURAN.

DMITRY G. MELNIK, SANDHYA GOPALAKRISHNAN, TERRY A. MILLER, The Ohio State University, Dept. of Chemistry, Laser Spectroscopy Facility, 120 W. 18th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210; AND FRANK C. DE LUCIA, The Ohio State University, Dept. of Physics, Microwave Laboratory, 174 W. 18th Avenue, Columbus OH 43210.

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TH09			15min3:57

ROTATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY AND RING-PUCKERING CONFORMATION OF 3-HYDROXY-TETRAHYDROFURAN.

RICHARD J. LAVRICH, RACHELE L. RHEA, JAMES W. MCCARGAR AND MICHAEL J. TUBERGEN, Department of Chemistry, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242.

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TH10			15min4:14

VAN DER WAALS COMPLEXES OF 3-HYDROXYTETRAHYDROFURAN: 3-HYDROXYTETRAHYDROFURAN-H₂O AND 3-HYDROXYTETRAHYDROFURAN-Ar.

RICHARD J. LAVRICH, CHARLES R. TOROK AND MICHAEL J. TUBERGEN, Department of Chemistry, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242.

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TH11			15min4:31

MICROWAVE INVESTIGATION OF CIS,TRANS-1,4-DIFLUOROBUTADIENE AND A PARTIAL STRUCTURE FOR THIS MOLECULE.

RICHARD J. LAVRICH AND MICHAEL J. TUBERGEN, Department of Chemistry, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242; NORMAN C. CRAIG AND CATHERINE M. OERTEL, Department of Chemistry, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH 44074.

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TH12			10min4:48

ROTATIONAL SPECTRA AND INTERNAL ROTATION OF 1,1,1,2,2-PENTAFLUOROPROPRANE AND 2,2,2-TRIFLUOROETHYLMETHYLETHER.

N. SAKAKIBARA, K. FUCHIGAMI, Y. TATAMITANI, T. OGATA, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, Japan 422-8529.

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TH13			10min5:00

GAS PHASE STRUCTURE OF TRIFLUOROACETYL PEROXYNITRATE..

ANGELIKA HERMANN, JAN NIEMEYER, HANS-GEORG MACK, DINES CHRISTEN AND HEINZ OBERHAMMER, Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Tübingen, Germany; HELGE WILLNER, Institute of Synthetic Chemistry, University of Duisburg, Germany; MARTIN SCHÄFER AND ALFRED BAUDER, Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland.

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TH14			10min5:12

THE MICROWAVE SPECTRUM OF 1,2,4-TRIAZINE AND THE ROTATIONAL CONSTANTS OBTAINED FROM A SIMULTANEOUS ANALYSIS OF MICROWAVE GROUND STATE AND HIGH RESOLUTION IR-TRANSITIONS..

DINES CHRISTEN, Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Tübingen, Germany; MICHAEL H. PALMER, Department of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK; FLEMMING HEGELUND, Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Denmark.

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TH15			10min5:24

PROGRESS REPORT ON THE STUDY OF THE AMINO AMIDE VALINAMIDE.

RICHARD J. LAVRICH, CHARLES R. TOROK AND MICHAEL J. TUBERGEN, Department of Chemistry, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242.

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