The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2003, V 118, N 7, February 15.


COMMUNICATIONS

Relativistic, nearly basis-set-limit nuclear magnetic shielding constants of the rare gases He-Rn: A way to absolute nuclear magnetic resonance shielding scales Juha Vaara and Pekka Pyykko" pp. 2973-2976
ARTICLES

Theoretical Methods and Algorithms
Appropriate methods to combine forward and reverse free-energy perturbation averages Nandou Lu, Jayant K. Singh, and David A. Kofke pp. 2977-2984 A Lagrangian, integral-density direct formulation and implementation of the analytic CCSD and CCSD(T) gradients Kasper Hald, Asger Halkier, Poul J?rgensen, Sonia Coriani, Christof Ha"ttig, and Trygve Helgaker pp. 2985-2998 Quantum path minimization: An efficient method for global optimization Pu Liu and B. J. Berne pp. 2999-3005 Local treatment of electron excitations in the EOM-CCSD method Tatiana Korona and Hans-Joachim Werner pp. 3006-3019 New optimization method for intermolecular potentials: Optimization of a new anisotropic united atoms potential for olefins: Prediction of equilibrium properties Emeric Bourasseau, Mehalia Haboudou, Anne Boutin, Alain H. Fuchs, and Philippe Ungerer pp. 3020-3034 Basis set and correlation dependent extrapolation of correlation energy Soon Bum Huh and Jae Shin Lee pp. 3035-3042
Gas Phase Dynamics and Structure: Spectroscopy, Molecular Interactions, Scattering, and Photochemistry
Energy relaxation and quenching processes of doped rare-gas clusters with a shell-like geometric structure T. Laarmann, K. von Haeften, H. Wabnitz, and T. Mo"ller pp. 3043-3051 A survey of ab initio conical intersections for the H + H2 system Ga'bor Hala'sz, A'gnes Vibo'k, Alexander M. Mebel, and Michael Baer pp. 3052-3064 Time-resolved x-ray Raman spectroscopy of photoexcited polydiacetylene oligomer: A simulation study Satoshi Tanaka, Sergei Volkov, and Shaul Mukamel pp. 3065-3078 Variational calculations of excited states with zero total angular momentum (vibrational spectrum) of H2 without use of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation Sergiy Bubin and Ludwik Adamowicz pp. 3079-3082 Photodissociation of bromoform cation at 308, 355, and 610 nm by means of time- of-flight mass spectroscopy and ion velocity imaging Jianhua Huang, Dadong Xu, Joseph S. Francisco, and William M. Jackson pp. 3083-3089 Kinetic-energy release in Coulomb explosion of metastable C3H [52+] K. Gluch, J. Fedor, S. Matt-Leubner, O. Echt, A. Stamatovic, M. Probst, P. Scheier, and T. D. Ma"rk pp. 3090-3095 A semiclassical study of the effects of rotation on the unimolecular dissociation of HN2 and DN2 Yin Guo and Donald L. Thompson pp. 3096-3101 Direct Monte Carlo simulation of chemical reaction systems: Prediction of ultrafast detonations James B. Anderson and Lyle N. Long pp. 3102-3110 Quantum reactive scattering calculations of cross sections and rate constants for the N(2D) + O2(X 3 [Sigma] [g-] ) [-->] O(3P) + NO(X 2 [Pi] ) reaction Irene Miquel, Miguel Gonza'lez, R. Sayo's, Gabriel G. Balint-Kurti, Stephen K. Gray, and Evelyn M. Goldfield pp. 3111-3123 Energy dependence of the Penning ionization electron spectrum of Ne*(3s 3P2,0) + Ar Brian A. Jacobs, Wesley A. Rice, and P. E. Siska pp. 3124-3130 Second-order quadrupole-shielding effects in magic-angle spinning solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance Sungsool Wi, Sharon E. Ashbrook, Stephen Wimperis, and Lucio Frydman pp. 3131-3140 PDF (155 kB) Two-channel vibrational relaxation of H2 by He: A bridge between the Landau- Teller and Bethe-Wigner limits E. I. Dashevskaya, J. A. Kunc, E. E. Nikitin, and I. Oref pp. 3141-3147
Condensed Phase Dynamics, Structure, and Thermodynamics: Spectroscopy, Reactions, and Relaxation
Superhyperfine interactions in inhomogeneously broadened paramagnetic centers observed via a hole-burned free induction decay S. C. Drew, J. R. Pilbrow, P. J. Newman, and D. R. MacFarlane pp. 3148-3153 Experimental and theoretical aspects of proton transfer in 3-methyl-6-hydroxy- m-phthalic acid A. Mandal, S. Mitra, D. Banerjee, S. P. Bhattacharyya, and S. Mukherjee pp. 3154-3160 Continuum predictions from molecular dynamics simulations: Shock waves Seth Root, Robert J. Hardy, and David R. Swanson pp. 3161-3165 Kinetics of heterogeneous nucleation for low mean cluster populations Jayesh S. Bhatt and Ian J. Ford pp. 3166-3176 Pressure and temperature dependence of structural relaxation in diglycidylether of bisphenol A M. Paluch, C. M. Roland, J. Gapinski, and A. Patkowski pp. 3177-3186 Multiphoton intrapulse interference. II. Control of two- and three-photon laser induced fluorescence with shaped pulses Vadim V. Lozovoy, Igor Pastirk, Katherine A. Walowicz, and Marcos Dantus pp. 3187-3196 Temperature induced changes on the structure and the dynamics of the "tetrahedral" glasses and melts of ZnCl2 and ZnBr2 S. N. Yannopoulos, A. G. Kalampounias, A. Chrissanthopoulos, and G. N. Papatheodorou pp. 3197-3214 Ethylene glycol dimers in the liquid phase: A study by x-ray and neutron diffraction Imre Bako', Tamas Gro'sz, Ga'bor Pa'linka's, and Marie Claire Bellissent-Funel pp. 3215-3221 Study of photoisomerization of azo dyes in liquid crystals D. Statman and I. Ja'nossy pp. 3222-3232 No "delayed" muonium-formation in organic liquids David C. Walker, Stefan Karolczak, Gerald B. Porter, and Hugh A. Gillis pp. 3233-3236
Surfaces, Interfaces, and Materials
On the mechanism of transient bleaching of the optical absorption of ferrofluids and dyed liquids B. Hoffmann, W. Ko"hler, and M. Krekhova pp. 3237-3242 Nuclear magnetic resonance dephasing effects in a spherical pore with a magnetic dipolar field R. M. E. Valckenborg, H. P. Huinink, and K. Kopinga pp. 3243-3251 Polymer adsorption on nanoheterogeneous surfaces: Impact of size and density of heterogeneous sites Kyoung-Yong Chun, Yu-Wen Huang, and Vinay K. Gupta pp. 3252-3257 Comparison and evaluation of several models for fitting the frequency response of dispersive systems J. Ross Macdonald pp. 3258-3267 Density functional calculations of hydrogen adsorption on palladium-silver alloy surfaces O. M. L?vvik and R. A. Olsen pp. 3268-3276 Temperature dependence of luminescent spectra and dynamics in nanocrystalline Y2O3:Eu3 + Hongshang Peng, Hongwei Song, Baojiu Chen, Jiwei Wang, Shaozhe Lu, Xianggui Kong, and Jiahua Zhang pp. 3277-3282 Rectification of laser-induced electronic transport through molecules Jo"rg Lehmann, Sigmund Kohler, Peter Ha"nggi, and Abraham Nitzan pp. 3283-3293 Precursor states of atomic hydrogen on the Si(100)-(2?1) surface E. S. Tok, J. R. Engstrom, and H. Chuan Kang pp. 3294-3299 Electron-phonon coupling in negatively charged cubane and octasilacubane Takashi Kato and Tokio Yamabe pp. 3300-3311 CO oxidation on thin Pt crystals: Temperature slaving and the derivation of lumped models Jaime Cisternas, Philip Holmes, Ioannis G. Kevrekidis, and Xiujiang Li pp. 3312-3328 Effect of compressed CO2 on the size and stability of reverse micelles: Small- angle x-ray scattering and phase behavior study Jianling Zhang, Buxing Han, Juncheng Liu, Xiaogang Zhang, Guanying Yang, Jun He, Zhimin Liu, Tao Jiang, Jun Wang, and Baozhong Dong pp. 3329-3333 The dynamics of the dissociative adsorption of methane on Pt(533) Adam T. Gee, Brian E. Hayden, Claire Mormiche, Aart W. Kleyn, and Bernd Riedmu"ller pp. 3334-3341
Polymers, Biopolymers, and Complex Systems
Investigation of the folding profiles of evolutionarily selected model proteins Erik Nelson and Nick Grishin pp. 3342-3349 Phase behavior and concentration fluctuations in suspensions of hard spheres and nearly ideal polymers S. A. Shah, Y. L. Chen, K. S. Schweizer, and C. F. Zukoski pp. 3350-3361 On the bulk modulus of the cell model of charged macromolecules suspensions Gabriel Te'llez and Emmanuel Trizac pp. 3362-3367 Air shear driven flow of thin perfluoropolyether polymer films Michael A. Scarpulla, C. Mathew Mate, and Malika D. Carter pp. 3368-3375 Rotational diffusion of two-segmented macromolecules with a ball-socket joint: A kinetic theory approach Hans Magne A*dland and Arne Mikkelsen pp. 3376-3391 Chain length dependence of the state diagram of a single stiff-chain macromolecule: Theory and Monte Carlo simulation M. R. Stukan, V. A. Ivanov, A. Yu. Grosberg, W. Paul, and K. Binder pp. 3392-3400 Calculation of the dielectric permittivity profile for a nonuniform system: Application to a lipid bilayer simulation Harry A. Stern and Scott E. Feller pp. 3401-3412 Master equation approach to finding the rate-limiting steps in biopolymer folding Wenbing Zhang and Shi-Jie Chen pp. 3413-3420 Dynamics of poly(ethylene oxide) in nanoscale confinements: A computer simulations perspective V. Kuppa and E. Manias pp. 3421-3429 An analysis of poly(lactic acid) with varying regio regularity Shuhui Kang, Guangzhao Zhang, Kaoru Aou, Shaw Ling Hsu, Howard D. Stidham, and Xiaozhen Yang pp. 3430-3436
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Notes
Higher accuracy quantum Monte Carlo calculations of the barrier for the H + H2 reaction Kevin E. Riley and James B. Anderson pp. 3437-3438
Comments
Comment on "Does lattice vibration drive diffusion in zeolites?" [J. Chem. Phys. 114, 3776 (2001)] Giuseppe B. Suffritti, Pierfranco Demontis, and Giovanni Ciccotti pp. 3439-3440 Response to "Comment on `Does lattice vibration drive diffusion in zeolites?' " [J. Chem. Phys. 114, 3776 (2001)] Dmitry I. Kopelevich and Hsueh-Chia Chang pp. 3441-3442