RI. MINI-SYMPOSIUM: BIO-RELEVANT MOLECULES

THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 2005 - 1:30PM

Room: 1015 McPHERSON LAB

Chair: PRADEEP SENGUPTA, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India

RI01 30min1:30

NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN PULSED 2D IR SPECTROSCOPY AND ITS APPLICATIONS TO BIOMOLECULAR SYSTEMS.

MARTIN T. ZANNI, DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON, MADISON, WI 53706.

RI02			15min2:05

ALPHA-AMINO ACIDS IN GAS-PHASE: JET-COOLED ROTATIONAL SPECTRA OF LEUCINE, ISOLEUCINE AND 2-AMINOBUTIRIC ACID.

EMILIO J. COCINERO, ALBERTO LESARRI, JUAN C. LÓPEZ, JOSÉ L. ALONSO, Grupo de Espectroscopía Molecular (GEM), Departamento de Química Física y Química Inorgánica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Valladolid, E-47005 Valladolid, Spain; JENS-UWE GRABOW, Lehrgebiet Physikalische Chemie A, Institut für Physikalische Chemie und Elektrochemie, Universtät Hannover, Callinstr. 3-3a, D-30167 Hannover, Germany.

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RI03			15min2:22

CONFORMATIONAL SPECIFIC IVR IN FLEXIBLE BIOMOLECULES.

TRACY A. LEGREVE, JASPER R. CLARKSON AND TIMOTHY S. ZWIER, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907.

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RI04			15min2:39

THE RIGIDITY OF THE TRIPLY BONDED VAN DER WAALS COMPLEXES AND BIOMOLECULES.

TERUHIKO OGATA, YOSHIO TATAMITANI AND KENJI YAMANOH, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka 422-8529 Japan.

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RI05			15min2:56

CONFORMATIONAL EFFECTS ON RESOLVED EMISSION SPECTRA OF FLOPPY AROMATIC MOLECULES.

SUJIT S. PANJA AND TAPAS CHAKRABORTY, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, UP-208016,India.

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INTERMISSION

RI06			15min3:30

VIBRATIONAL DYNAMICS OF TRIFLUOROACETIC ACID AND FORMIC ACID IN GAS AND DILUTE SOLUTION: CRACKING OPEN GAS PHASE ACID DIMERS.

PAM L. CRUM, BRIAN C. DIAN, HYUN S. YOO, CHARLOTTE E. HINKLE AND BROOKS H. PATE, Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, McCormick Rd., P.O. Box 400319, Charlottesville, VA 22904..

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RI07			15min3:47

INFLUENCE OF PALMITIC ACID ON MOLECULAR ORGANIZATION OF DIPALMITOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE MONOLAYERS AT THE AIR-WATER INTERFACE: A VIBRATIONAL SUM FREQUENCY GENERATION (VSFG) SPECTROSCOPY STUDY .

GANG MA, HEATHER C. ALLEN, Department of Chemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210.

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RI08			15min4:04

SPECTROSCOPY AND DYNAMICS OF JET-COOLED P-COUMARIC ACID ESTERS: AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE PHOTOISOMERIZATION OF THE PHOTOACTIVE YELLOW PROTEIN.

W. J. BUMA, M. DE GROOT, University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Science, Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, Nieuwe Achtergracht 166, 1018 WV Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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RI09			10min4:21

JET COOLED ROTATIONAL SPECTRA OF LASER ABLATED URACIL AND THYMINE.

M. ISABEL PENA, VANESA VAQUERO, JUAN C. LÓPEZ AND JOSÉ L. ALONSO, Grupo de Espectroscopía Molecular (GEM), Departamento de Química Física y Química Inorgánica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Valladolid, E-47005 Valladolid, Spain.

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RI10			15min4:33

GAS PHASE CONFORMATIONAL BEHAVIOUR OF beta

-ALANINE, PHENYLGLYCINE AND gamma

-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID (GABA).

M. EUGENIA SANZ, SUSANA BLANCO, VANESSA CORTIJO, ISABEL PENA, VANESA VAQUERO, ALBERTO LESARRI, JUAN C. LÓPEZ AND JOSÉ L. ALONSO, Grupo de Espectroscopía Molecular (GEM), Departamento de Química Física y Química Inorgánica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Valladolid, E-47005 Valladolid, Spain; W. CAMINATI, Dipartimento de Chimica "G.Ciamician", Universita' di Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy.

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RI11			15min4:50

IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF SELECT MEMBERS OF THE TAXANE FAMILY USING RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY.

PENELOPE CIPRIANI AND DOR BEN-AMOTZ, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907.

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RI12			15min5:07

ENCAPSULATION OF PRODAN IN A BETA-CYCLODEXTRIN ENVIRONMENT: AN EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL STUDY VIA ELECTRONIC SPECTROSCOPY AND MOLECULAR MECHANICS.

ANWESHA BANERJEE, BIDISA SENGUPTA, SUDIP CHAUDHURI AND PRADEEP K. SENGUPTA, Biophysics Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1/AF, Bidhannagar, Kolkata 700064, India.

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