FD. MINI-SYMPOSIUM: WATER CLUSTERS

FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 2001 - 8:30AM

Room: 1015 McPHERSON LAB

Chair: SOTIRIS S. XANTHEAS, PNNL, Richland, WA

FD01 INVITED TALK 30min8:30

THE WATER PAIR POTENTIAL: CONFRONTATION BETWEEN EXPERIMENTS AND THEORY.

C. LEFORESTIER, Université Montpellier II (France), e-mail: lefores@LSD.univ-montp2.fr; R. S. FELLERS, C. KEOSHIAN AND R. J. SAYKALLY, Department of Chemistry, University of Berkeley.

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FD02			15min9:05

TERAHERTZ VIBRATION-ROTATION- TUNNELING SPECTROSCOPY OF WATER CLUSTERS IN THE TRANSLATIONAL BAND REGION.

F. N. KEUTSCH, Department of Chemistry, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138; M. G. BROWN, Department of Chemistry, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403; P. B. PETERSEN AND R. J. SAYKALLY, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720; M. GELEIJNS AND A. VAN DER AVOIRD, Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, NSR-Center, University of Nijmegen, Toernooiveld, 6525 ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

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FD03			15min9:22

FAR-INFRARED LASER VIBRATION-ROTATION- TUNNELING SPECTROSCOPY OF WATER CLUSTERS IN THE LIBRATIONAL BAND REGION.

F. N. KEUTSCH, Department of Chemistry, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138; R. S. FELLERS, Yahoo, 3420 Central Expressway, Santa Clara, CA 95051; M. R. VIANT, Department of Animal Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA 95616; R. J. SAYKALLY, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720.

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FD04			10min9:39

CHARACTERIZATION OF THE WATER DIMER DONOR TORSION VIBRATION BY FIR-VRT SPECTROSCOPY.

SERENA K. ANDERSON, CHRISTY J. KEOSHIAN, POUL B. PETERSEN, CARLIN ROOKE, RICHARD J. SAYKALLY, College of Chemistry, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720.

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FD05			15min9:51

ZWITTERIONS AND CAGES: NEW RESULTS FOR NEUTRAL AND PROTONATED WATER CLUSTERS.

JER-LAI KUO, Department of Chemistry, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210; CRISTIAN V. CIOBANU, Department of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210; LARS OJAMÄE, Physical Chemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden; ISAIAH SHAVITT AND SHERWIN J. SINGER, Department of Chemistry, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210.

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INTERMISSION

FD06			15min10:25

INFRARED DEPLETION SPECTROSCOPY OF ANILINE-WATER_n(n=2-6) CATION CLUSTERS.

T. NAKANAGA AND F. ITO, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Higashi 1-1,Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8565, Japan.

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FD07			15min10:42

TIME RESOLVED PICOSECOND IR-UV PUMP-PROBE SPECTROSCOPY FOR VIBRATIONAL RELAXATION OF OH SRETCHING MODES OF PHENOL CLUSTERS.

M. KAYANO, T. EBATA AND N. MIKAMI, Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan.

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FD08			15min10:59

HYDROGEN-BONDING NETWORK AND NONRADIATIVE DYNAMICS OF HYDRATED ACRIDINE CLUSTERS.

M. MITSUI, Y. OHSHIMA AND O. KAJIMOTO, Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa-Oiwakecho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan; S. ISHIUCHI, M. SAKAI AND M. FUJII, Institute for Molecular Sience, Myodaiji, Okazaki 444-8585, Japan.

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FD09			15min11:16

WATER CLUSTERS OF TRYPTAMINE AND 3-INDOLEPROPIONIC ACID: THE ROLE OF WATER BRIDGES IN DIRECTING THE CONFORMATIONAL PREFERENCES OF FLEXIBLE BIOMOLECULES.

BRIAN C. DIAN, JOEL R. CARNEY AND TIMOTHY S. ZWIER, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1393.

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FD10			15min11:33

WATER CLUSTERS OF A MODEL DIPEPTIDE: N-ACETYLTRYPTOPHAN METHYLAMIDE.

ASIER LONGARTE, BRIAN C. DIAN AND TIMOTHY S. ZWIER, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1393.

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FD11			10min11:50

PECULARITIES OF ISOTROPIC RAYLEIGH LIGHT SCATTERING IN AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS OF CARBOXYLIC ACIDS.

S. A. OSMANOV, Samarkand State University, 703004 Samarkand, Univ. Blvd, 15, Uzbekistan (email: barry@uni.uzsci.net).

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