WJ. MINI-SYMPOSIUM: CONICAL INTERSECTIONS

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2009 - 1:30PM

Room: 2015 McPHERSON LAB

Chair: SPIRIDOULA MATSIKA, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

WJ01 INVITED TALK 30min1:30

WATCHING ELECTRONS AT CONICAL INTERSECTIONS AND FUNNELS.

DAVID M. JONAS, ERIC R. SMITH, WILLIAM K. PETERS, KATHERINE A. KITNEY, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0215.

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WJ02			15min2:05

THE CONICAL INTERSECTIONS BETWEEN ¹L_b and ¹L_a STATES IN TRYPTAMINE AND INDOLE.

CH. BRAND, Institut für Physikalische Chemie I, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Universitätsstraße 26.43.02.43 D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany; J. KÜPPER, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, 14195 Berlin, Germany; W. LEO MEERTS, Molecular and Biophysics Group, Institute for Molecules and Materials,Radboud University, 6500 GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands; D. W. PRATT, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Chemistry, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA; JÖRG TATCHEN, Chemical Physics Department, Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100 Rehovot, Israel; AND M. SCHMITT, Institut für Physikalische Chemie I, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Universitätsstraße 26.43.02.43 D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany.

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WJ03			15min2:22

HIGH RESOLUTION SPECTROSCOPY OF INDOLE DERIVATIVES NEAR CONICAL INTERSECTIONS: TRYPTAMINE AND INDOLE.

CH. BRAND, Institut für Physikalische Chemie I, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Universitätsstraße 26.43.02.43 D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany; J. KÜPPER, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, 14195 Berlin, Germany; I. KALKMAN, W. LEO MEERTS, Molecular and Biophysics Group, Institute for Molecules and Materials,Radboud University, 6500 GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands; D. W. PRATT, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Chemistry, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA; AND M. SCHMITT, Institut für Physikalische Chemie I, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Universitätsstraße 26.43.02.43 D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany.

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WJ04			15min2:39

MULTI-STATE VIBRONIC INTERACTIONS IN FLUORINATED BENZENE RADICAL CATIONS..

S. FARAJI, H. KÖPPEL, Theoretische Chemie, Physikalisch-Chemisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 229, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany.

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WJ05			15min2:56

MULTIPHOTON IONIZATION AND DISSOCIATION OF DIAZIRINE.

ANDREW K. MOLLNER, I. FEDOROV, L. KOZIOL, A. I. KRYLOV, H. REISLER, Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089.

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WJ06			15min3:13

STRUCTURE OF THE PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTION PATHWAYS POPULATED VIA THE PROMOTION of CF₂I₂ and CH₂I₂ INTO THEIR FIRST ELECTRONICALLY EXCITED STATES.

P. Z. EL-KHOURY, A. N TARNOVSKY AND M. OLIVUCCI, Department of Chemistry and Center for Photochemical Sciences, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403.

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INTERMISSION

WJ07			10min3:45

THE FLUORESCENCE OF THE WURSTER'S BLUE RADICAL CATION IS CONTROLLED BY A CONICAL INTERSECTION.

ELENA N. LARICHEVA AND MASSIMO OLIVUCCI, Department of Chemistry and Center for Photochemical Sciences, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403, USA; JAKOB GRILJ AND ERIC VAUTHEY, Physical Chemistry Department, University of Geneva, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland.

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WJ08			15min3:57

RELATIVISTIC JAHN-TELLER EFFECTS IN THE QUARTET STATES OF K₃ AND RB₃: A VIBRATIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE 2⁴E' leftarrow

1⁴A₂' ELECTRONIC TRANSITIONS BASED ON AB INITIO CALCULATIONS.

A. W. HAUSER, G. AUBÖCK, C. CALLEGARI AND W. E. ERNST, Institute of Experimental Physics, Graz University of Technology, Petersgasse 16, A-8010 Graz, Austria.

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WJ09			15min4:14

COLLISIONAL QUENCHING OF OH A² Sigma

⁺ BY H₂ AND N₂: DYNAMICAL OUTCOMES.

LOGAN P. DEMPSEY, TIMOTHY D. SECHLER, CRAIG MURRAY, MARSHA I. LESTER, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6323; SPIRIDOULA MATSIKA, Department of Chemistry, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122-6014.

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WJ10			15min4:31

EFFECTS OF ASYMMETRIC DEUTERATION ON THE ROTATIONAL LEVEL STRUCTURE OF JAHN-TELLER ACTIVE METHOXY RADICALS.

DMITRY G. MELNIK, MING-WEI CHEN, JINJUN LIU AND TERRY A. MILLER, Laser Spectroscopy Facility, Department of Chemistry, The Ohio State University, 120 W. 18th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210; ROBERT F. CURL, Department of Chemistry and Rice Quantum Institute, Rice University, Houston TX, 77005; C. BRADLEY MOORE, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley CA, 94720.

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WJ11			15min4:48

THE JAHN-TELLER (JT) EFFECT IN THE A STATE OF THE NITRATE RADICAL NO₃.

KANA TAKEMATSU, NATHAN EDDINGSAAS AND MITCHIO OKUMURA, Arthur Amos Noyes Laboratory of Chemical Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125; JOHN STANTON, Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712.

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