RC. MICROWAVE

THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 2003 - 8:30AM

Room: 1000 McPHERSON LAB

Chair: KELLY HIGGINS, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

RC01 15min8:30

MICROWAVE SPECTRA OF O-BENZYNE PRODUCED IN A DISCHARGE NOZZLE .

STEPHEN G. KUKOLICH, CHAKREE TANJAROON, Department of Chemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 ; MICHAEL C. MCCARTHY AND PATRICK THADDEUS, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138.

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RC02			15min8:47

MEASUREMENT OF THE ROTATIONAL SPECTRUM OF LASER-PREPARED VIBRATIONALLY EXCITED STATES USING FTMW SPECTROSCOPY.

KEVIN DOUGLASS, KEVIN WELCH, BROOKS H. PATE, Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, McCormick Rd., P.O. Box 400319 22904; RICK SUENRAM, IGOR LEONOV, Optical Technology Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899.

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RC03			15min9:04

THE DIRECT OBSERVATION AND ANALYSIS OF PSEUDOROTATION IN 1,3-DIOXOLANE.

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

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RC04			15min9:21

ETHYL ALCOHOL A CASE STUDY IN ASYMMETRIC-ASYMMETRIC INTERNAL ROTATION.

J. C. PEARSON, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Mail Stop 301-429, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109.

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RC05			15min9:38

INTERACTIONS IN SYMMETRIC TOP MOLECULES BETWEEN VIBRATIONAL POLYADS:
ROTATIONAL AND ROVIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY OF LOW-LYING STATES OF PROPYNE.

HOLGER S. P. MÜLLER, I. Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, 50937 Köln, Germany; PETR PRACNA, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 18223 Praha 8, Czech Republic; VELI-MATTI HORNEMAN, 90014 University of Oulu, Finland; STEFAN KLEE, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, 35392 Gießen, Germany.

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INTERMISSION

RC06			15min10:10

AN ASSESSMENT OF FOURIER-TRANSFORM MICROWAVE SPECTROSCOPY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING.

R. R. BOUSQUET AND P. M. CHU, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, 20899-8393; R. S. DABELL, Edgewood Research, Development, and Engineering Center, Arberdeen Proving Grounds, Aberdeen, MD, 21010-5423.

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RC07			15min10:27

EQUILIBRIUM STRUCTURES FOR THE CIS and TRANS ISOMERS OF 1,2-DIFLUOROETHYLENE AND THE CIS,TRANS ISOMER OF 1,4-DIFLUOROBUTADIENE.

NORMAN C. CRAIG, Department of Chemistry, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH 44074; PETER GRONER, Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 5100 Rockhill Rd, Kansas City, MO 64110-2499; DONALD C. MCKEAN, School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JJ, U.K; MICHAEL J. TUBERGEN, Department of Chemistry, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242.

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RC08			15min10:44

ANALYSIS OF THE ROTATI0NAL STRUCTURE IN SEVERAL BANDS IN THE HIGH-RESOLUTION INFRARED SPECTRA OF BUTADIENE- TRANS,TRANS -1,4- d ₂ AND - CIS,CIS -1,4- d ₂..

NORMAN C. CRAIG, KEITH A. HANSON, RICHARD W. PIERCE AND SCOTT D. SAYLOR, Department of Chemistry, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH 44074; ROBERT L. SAMS, EMSL, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352.

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RC09			15min11:01

ROTATIONAL SPECTRA AND STRUCTURES OF THE MUSTARD GAS PRECURSORS; DIVINYL SULFONE, DIVINYLSULFOXIDE, AND DIVINYL SULFIDE.

R. DABELL, Battelle Eastern Regional Technology Center, Aberdeen, MD 21001-1228; R. D. SUENRAM AND R. J. LAVRICH, Optical Technology Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg,MD 20899; J. O. JENSEN, A. C. SAMUELS, M. W. ELLZY, L. CASH AND J. M. LOCHNER, Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, Edgewood Area, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21010-5424.

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RC10			15min11:18

ROTATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY OF VIBRATIONALLY EXCITED STATES OF 3-FLUOROPROPYNE, 4-FLUOROBUTYNE, AND 1-BUTYNE USING IR-FTMW-MW TRIPLE RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY.

KEVIN DOUGLASS, FRANCES REES, BROOKS H. PATE, Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, McCormick Rd., P.O. Box 400319 22904; RICK SUENRAM, IGOR LEONOV, Optical Technology Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899.

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RC11			15min11:35

A BLOCH MODEL DESCRIPTION OF THE OVERALL ROTATIONAL LINESHAPE OF A HIGHLY VIBRATIONALLY EXCITED MOLECULE WITH A METHYL GROUP INTERNAL ROTOR.

BROOKS H. PATE, Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, McCormick Rd., P.O. Box 400319, Charlottesville, VA 22904.

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RC12			15min11:52

EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENT OF 1,1'-DIMETHYLFERROCENE GAS-PHASE STRUCTURE AND DETECTION OF 1,2'-DIMETHYLFERROCENE STRUCTURAL ISOMERS USING PULSE BEAM FOURIER TRANSFORM
MICROWAVE SPECTROMETER.

CHAKREE TANJAROON, KRISTEN KECK AND STEPHEN KUKOLICH,
Department of Chemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721.

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