RH. MICROWAVE

THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 2008 - 1:30pm

Room: 1000 MCPHERSON LAB

Chair: BRIAN J. DROUIN, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California

RH01 10min1:30

MOLECULAR RECOGNITION OF CHIRAL CONFORMERS: A ROTATIONAL STUDY OF THE DIMERS OF GLYCIDOL.

ASSIMO MARIS, BARBARA M. GIULIANO, DARIA BONAZZI AND WALTHER CAMINATI, Dipartimento di Chimica "G. Ciamician" dell'Università, Via Selmi 2, I-40126 Bologna, Italy.

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RH02			15min1:42

CHIRAL SELF-RECOGNITION: DIRECT ROTATIONAL SPECTROSCOPIC DETECTION OF 2-FLUOROETHANOL DIMERS AND TRIMERS IN THE GAS PHASE.

XUNCHEN LIU, NICOLE BORHO, YUNJIE XU, Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6G 2G2.

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RH03			15min1:59

THE ROTATIONAL SPECTRUM OF CIS - AND TRANS -HSSOH.

MONIKA KOERBER, OLIVER BAUM, THOMAS F. GIESEN AND STEPHAN SCHLEMMER, I. Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, Zülpicher Str. 77, 50937 Köln, Germany.

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RH04			15min2:16

MICROWAVE STUDIES OF TWO CONFORMERS OF 6-METHYL-3-HEPTYNE AND THREE OF 2-METHYLPENTANE.

JOSEPH FOURNIER, Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3060; ROBERT K. BOHN, Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3060; H. HARVEY MICHELS, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3046.

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RH05			15min2:33

THE MICROWAVE SPECTRUM OF THE TWO-TOP PEPTIDE MIMETIC N-ACETYL-PHENYLALANINE METHYL ESTER.

KEVIN O. DOUGLASS, KEVIN M. DAVIS, FRANCIS J. LOVAS, DAVID F. PLUSQUELLIC, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY, GAITHERSBURG, MD 20899; DAVID W. PRATT, DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY, UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURG, PITTSBURG, PA 15260; BROOKS H. PATE, DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA 22904.

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RH06			15min2:50

NEW TECHNIQUES IN CHIRPED-PULSE FOURIER TRANSFORM MICROWAVE SPECTROSCOPY ILLUSTRATED BY MEASUREMENTS OF THE ROTATIONAL SPECTRUM OF 1,2,2,2-TETRAFLUOROETHYL DIFLUOROMETHYL ETHER (AN INHALATION AGENT FOR GENERAL ANESTHESIA KNOWN AS SUPRANE).

RICHARD D. SUENRAM, STEVEN T. SHIPMAN AND BROOKS H. PATE, Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, McCormick Rd., P.O. Box 400319, Charlottesville, VA 22904; GORDON G. BROWN, William Chambers Coker Science Building, Coker College, Hartsville, SC 29550.

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RH07			15min3:07

GAS-PHASE CONFORMATIONAL LANDSCAPE OF THE ANAESTHETICS PROPOFOL, BENZOCAINE AND BENZOCAINE cdots

WATER USING ULTRA-BROADBAND CHIRP-PULSE MICROWAVE SPECTROSCOPY.

ALBERTO LESARRI, Departamento de Química Física y Química Inorgánica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Valladolid, E-47005 Valladolid, Spain; STEVEN T. SHIPMAN, GORDON G. BROWN, LEONARDO ALVAREZ-VALTIERRA, RICHARD D. SUENRAM AND BROOKS H. PATE, Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA; LU KANG, Department of Natural Sciences, Union College, Barboursville, KY 40906, USA.

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RH08			15min3:24

ROTATIONAL SPECTRA OF CYCLOPROPYLMETHYL GERMANE AND CYCLOPROPYLMETHYL SILANE: DIPOLE MOMENT AND BARRIER TO METHYL GROUP ROTATION.

REBECCA A. PEEBLES, SEAN A. PEEBLES, MICHAEL D. FOELLMER, JONATHAN M. MURRAY, MICHAL M. SERAFIN AND AMANDA L. STEBER, Department of Chemistry, Eastern Illinois University, 600 Lincoln Avenue, Charleston, IL 61920; GAMIL A. GUIRGIS AND RICHARD LIBERATORE, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The College of Charleston, Charleston, SC 29424; JAMES R. DURIG AND CHARLES J. WURREY, Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri - Kansas City, Kansas City, MO 64110.

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RH09			15min3:41

THE ROTATIONAL SPECTRA OF HAFNOCENE DIMETHYL AND ZIRCONOCENE DIMETHYL: A TWO-TOP INTERNAL ROTOR PROBLEM.

CHAKREE TANJAROON, ADAM DALY AND STEPHEN G. KUKOLICH, Department of Chemistry, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721.

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INTERMISSION

RH10			10min4:15

THE LOW FREQUENCY BROADBAND FOURIER TRANSFORM MICROWAVE SPECTROSCOPY OF HEXAFLUOROPROPYLENE OXIDE, CF₃CFOCF₂.

LU KANG, Department of Natural Sciences, Union College, Barbourville, KY 40906; STEVEN T. SHIPMAN, JUSTIN L. NEILL, Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, McCormick Rd., P.O. Box 400319, Charlottesville, VA 22904; ALBERTO LESARRI, Departmento de Quimica Fisica, Universidad de Valladolid, Facultad de Ciencias, Valladolid, 47005 SPAIN; AND BROOKS H. PATE, Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, McCormick Rd., P.O. Box 400319, Charlottesville, VA 22904.

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RH11			15min4:27

MICROWAVE SPECTRA OF cis -1,3,5-HEXATRIENE AND ITS ¹³C ISOTOPOMERS; AN r_s SUBSTITUTION STRUCTURE FOR THE CARBON BACKBONE.

RICHARD D. SUENRAM, BROOKS H. PATE, ALBERTO LESSARI, JUSTIN L. NEILL AND STEVEN T. SHIPMAN, Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904; NORMAN C. CRAIG, ROBIN A. HOLMES AND MATTHEW C. LEYDEN, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH 44074.

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RH12			10min4:44

ANALYSIS OF ROTATIONAL STRUCTURE IN THE HIGH-RESOLUTION INFRARED SPECTRUM OF cis -1,3,5-HEXATRIENE.

NORMAN C. CRAIG AND MATTHEW C. LEYDEN, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH 44074; TONY MASIELLO, Environmental and Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352.

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RH13			15min4:56

TWO DIMENSIONAL FOURIER TRANSFORM MICROWAVE SPECTROSCOPY: AUTO CORRELATION SPECTRUM OF 1-CHLORO-1-FLUORO ETHYLENE.

CHANDANA KARUNATILAKA, KELLY M. HOTOPP, AMANDA J. SHIRAR, GIANA L. STORCK AND BRIAN C. DIAN, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907.

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RH14			15min5:13

HIGH RESOLUTION BROADBAND RATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY: GROUND STATE SPECTRUM OF 1-CHLORO-1-FLUOROETHYLENE.

KELLY M. HOTOPP, CHANDANA KARUNATILAKA, AMANDA J. SHIRAR, GIANA L. STORCK AND BRIAN C. DIAN, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907.

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RH15			10min5:30

ROTATIONAL TRANSITIONS IN THE INTERACTING

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₆ BANDS OF FORMALDEHYDE IN H₂¹²C¹⁶O THE MILLIMETER RANGE FOR ASTROPHYSICAL USE.

L. MARGULÈS, R. JANECKOVÀ, S. BAILLEUX, Laboratoire PhLAM, CNRS UMR 8523, Université de Lille 1, Bat. P5, 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France.; A. PERRIN, Laboratoire Inter Universitaire des Systemes Atmosphériques, CNRS UMR 7583, Université Paris 12, 61 Av du General de Gaulle, 94010 Créteil Cedex France.; C. ENDRES, T. F. GIESEN AND S. SCHLEMMER, I. Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, 50937 Köln, Germany..

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RH16			10min5:42

COMPLEX ORGANIC MOLECULES : FROM LABORATORY STUDIES TO SPACE DETECTION.

L. MARGULÈS, G. WLODARCZAK, J. DEMAISON, Laboratoire PhLAM, CNRS UMR 8523, Université de Lille 1, Bat. P5, 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France.; K. DEMYK, Centre d'Étude Spatiale des Rayonnements, Université de Toulouse 3, France; M. CARVAJAL, Departamento de Fìsica Aplicada, Universidad de Huelva, Spain; R. MOTIYENKO, Institute of Radio Astronomy of NASU, Kharkov, Ukraine; I. KLEINER AND L. H. COUDERT, LISA, CNRS UMR 7583, Université Paris 12, 61 Av du General de Gaulle, 94010 Créteil Cedex France..

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