RA. MINI-SYMPOSIUM: SPECTROSCOPY OF WATER

THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 2006 - 8:30am

Room: 160 MATH ANNEX, 209 W. 18TH AVE.

Chair: J. MATHIAS WEBER, JILA and University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

RA01 INVITED TALK 30min8:30

WATER BOUND TO REACTIVE SPECIES: THE INFLUENCE OF CLUSTERING ON MOLECULAR AND ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE.

KENNETH R. LEOPOLD, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455.

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RA02			15min9:05

TERAHERTZ VIBRATION-ROTATION-TUNNELING (VRT) SPECTROSCOPY OF THE WATER TRIMER (D₂O)₃: COMPLETE CHARACTERIZATION OF THE 2.94 THZ TORSIONAL BAND (kⁿ = \pm 2¹ leftarrow

0⁰).

J. -X. HAN, L. K. TAKAHASHI, W. LIN, E. LEE, F. N. KEUTSCH AND R. J. SAYKALLY, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720.

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RA03			15min9:22

THE ROTATIONAL SPECTRUM OF THE WATER-HYDROPEROXY RADICAL (H₂O-HO₂) COMPLEX.

KOHSUKE SUMA, YOSHIHIRO SUMIYOSHI AND YASUKI ENDO, Department of Basic Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan.

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RA04			15min9:39

ACTIVE THERMOCHEMICAL TABLES: ON THE ACCURATE SEQUENTIAL BOND DISSOCIATION ENERGIES OF WATER.

BRANKO RUSCIC, REINHARDT E. PINZON, ABEL FERNANDEZ, MELITA L. MORTON, Chemistry Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, USA; DEEPTI KODEBOYINA AND GREGOR VON LASZEWSKI, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, USA.

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INTERMISSION

RA05	INVITED TALK		30min10:10

INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY OF THE HYDRATED SULFATE DIANION.

DANIEL NEUMARK, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720.

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RA06			15min10:45

INFRARED PHOTODISSOCIATION SPECTROSCOPY OF METAL WATER INTERACTIONS.

P. D. CARNEGIE, R. S. WALTERS, E. D. PILLAI AND M. A. DUNCAN, Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602-2556.

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RA07			15min11:02

INFRARED INTENSITIES AND SPECTRA OF WATER CLUSTERS.

KIRILL E. KUYANOV, Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089; MIKHAIL N. SLIPCHENKO, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011; BORIS G. SARTAKOV, General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119991, Russia; ANDREY F. VILESOV, Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089.

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RA08			15min11:19

HYDROGEN BONDING EFFECTS ON THE INFRARED INTENSITIES OF HALIDE-WATER COMPLEXES.

SAMANTHA HORVATH AND ANNE B. MCCOY, Department of Chemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210; JOSEPH R. ROSCIOLI AND MARK A. JOHNSON, Sterling Chemistry Laboratories, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520.

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RA09			15min11:36

MICROSCOPIC COMPATIBILITY BETWEEN METHANOL AND WATER IN HYDROGEN BOND NETWORK DEVELOPMENT IN PROTONATED CLUSTERS.

ASUKA FUJII, KEN-ICHIRO SUHARA, KENTA MIZUSE, NAOHIKO MIKAMI, Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan; JER-LAI KUO, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637616, Singapore.

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