The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 1999, V 103, N 50, 16 December.


LETTERS

10665-10669 Spectroscopic Observation of Ion-Induced Water Dimer Dissociation in the X-·(H2O)2 (X = F, Cl, Br, I) Clusters Patrick Ayotte, Steen B. Nielsen, Gary H. Weddle, and Mark A. Johnson , Sotiris S. Xantheas 10670-10673 A Mechanical Means to Produce Intense Beams of Slow Molecules Manish Gupta and Dudley Herschbach
FEATURE ARTICLE

10674-10690 Ab Initio Calculations of Vibronic Spectra and Dynamics for Small Polyatomic Molecules: Role of Duschinsky Effect A. M. Mebel, M. Hayashi, K. K. Liang, and S. H. Lin
ARTICLES

DYNAMICS AND RELAXATION
10691-10698 Theoretical Study of Two-Photon above Threshold Dissociation and Related Processes in Na2+ and Li2+ Sylvie Magnier , Maurizio Persico , Naseem Rahman 10699-10707 Theory of the Self-Exchange Electron Transfer in the Dioxygen/Superoxide System in Water Ernst D. German, Alexander M. Kuznetsov, Irina Efremenko, and Moshe Sheintuch 10708-10712 IR Spectroscopy of Hydrogen-Bonded Methanol: Vibrational and Structural Relaxation on the Femtosecond Time Scale R. Laenen, G. M. Gale, and N. Lascoux 10713-10718 Velocity of N2 upon Dissociation of N2O in N2O·(H2O)mI Suketu R. Gandhi 10719-10729 Molecular Dynamics Study of Dielectric Properties of Water-Dimethyl Sulfoxide Mixtures Munir S. Skaf 10730-10736 Subpicosecond Ring Opening of 7-Dehydrocholesterol Studied by Ultrafast Spectroscopy Neil A. Anderson, Joseph J. Shiang, and Roseanne J. Sension 10737-10743 Investigation of the Solvation Dynamics of an Organic Dye in Polar Solvents Using the Femtosecond Transient Grating Technique Jean-Claude Gumy,Olivier Nicolet, and Eric Vauthey 10744-10748 Molecular Dynamics Study of Water-Acetonitrile Mixtures Raymond D. Mountain 10749-10754 Novel Information about Vibrational Relaxation in Liquids Using Time-Resolved Stokes Probing after Picosecond IR Excitation G. Seifert, R. Zürl, and H. Graener 10755-10763 Orientation-Dependent Electron Transfer Processes in Fullerene-Aniline Dyads K. George Thomas, V. Biju, D. M. Guldi, Prashant V. Kamat, and M. V. George 10764-10775 31P and 23Na Solid-State NMR Studies of Cation Dynamics in HT-Sodium Orthophosphate and the Solid Solutions (Na2SO4)x-(Na3PO4)1-x SPECTROSCOPY, GASEOUS CLUSTERS, AND MOLECULAR BEAMS 10783-10788 Temperature of Multibubble Sonoluminescence in Water Yuri T. Didenko, William B. McNamara III, and Kenneth S. Suslick 10789-10797 Circular Dichroic Triplet-Singlet Difference Spectroscopy. 1. Analysis of Dichroic Components in Optically Detected Magnetic Resonance Gabrielle M. Owen and Arnold J. Hoff 10798-10804 Radical Cation of 2,5-Dimethyl-2,4-hexadiene: Resonance Raman Spectrum and Molecular Orbital Calculations Gurusamy Balakrishnan, Jesper F. Offersgaard, and Robert Wilbrandt 10805-10812 A More Reliable Absolute Shielding Scale for Chlorine: Combined Experimental and Theoretical Approach Myrlene Gee, Roderick E. Wasylishen, and Aatto Laaksonen 10813-10818 Isotopic Studies, Structure and Modeling of the Nitrous Oxide-Acetylene Complex Rebecca A. Peebles, Sean A. Peebles, and Robert L. Kuczkowski, Helen O. Leung 10819-10824 Photodecomposition of MnO4-: A Theoretical Study Gennady L. Gutsev, B. K. Rao, and P. Jena 10825-10832 Effects of Finite Rf Pulses and Sample Spinning Speed in Multiple-Quantum Magic-Angle Spinning (MQ-MAS) and Multiple-Quantum Quadrupolar Carr-Purcell-Meiboom-Gill Magic-Angle Spinning (MQ-QCPMG-MAS) Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of Half-Integer Quadrupolar Nuclei Flemming H. Larsen and Niels Chr. Nielsen 10833-10841 Ultraviolet Photoelectron Spectroscopy of o-, m-, and p-Halobenzyl Anions Joseph B. Kim, Paul G. Wenthold, and W. C. Lineberger 10842-10845 Photophysical Studies of 1,2-C70H2 Angelo F. Benedetto, Sergei M. Bachilo, R. Bruce Weisman, Jamie R. Nossal, and 10846-10850 Gas-Phase Reactions of Nickel and Nickel Oxide Clusters with Nitrogen Oxides. 3. Reactions of Cations with Nitric Oxide W. D. Vann, R. C. Bell, and A. W. Castleman, Jr. 10851-10858 Raman Spectroscopic Study on Acetic Acid Clusters in Aqueous Solutions: Dominance of Acid-Acid Association Producing Microphases Nobuyuki Nishi, Takakazu Nakabayashi, and Kentaroh Kosugi
KINETICS; ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY
10859-10865 Stirring Effect on Bistability in a CSTR. 1. Experiments and Simulations for the AsO33-/IO3- Reaction Fathei Ali, Peter Strizhak, and Michael Menzinger 10866-10873 Stirring Effect on Bistability in a CSTR. 2. Theoretical Analysis of the Coalescence-Redispersion Model for One-Variable Systems Peter Strizhak, Fathei Ali, and Michael Menzinger 10874-10883 An ab Initio Investigation of the Reactions of 1,1- and 1,2-Dichloroethane with Hydroxyl Radical Asit K. Chandra , Tadafumi Uchimaru 10884-10892 Structure and Reactivity Studies of CoHNO+ in the Gas Phase Huiping Chen, Denley B. Jacobson, and Ben S. Freiser 10893-10898 Kinetics and Reaction Mechanism of Hydroxyl Radical Reaction with Methyl Formate David A. Good, Jaron Hanson, and Joseph S. Francisco , Zhuangjie Li and Gill-Ran Leong 10899-10906 Mass Spectrometric Measurement Of the Ionization Energies and Cross Sections Of Uranium and Plutonium Oxide Vapors F. Capone, Y. Colle, J. P. Hiernaut, and C. Ronchi 10907-10914 Mode Specificity Study in Unimolecular Dissociation of Nonrotating H2O, DHO, and MuHO Molecules J. L. Llanio-Trujillo, J. M. C. Marques, and A. J. C. Varandas 10915-10920 Discovery of Novel Bromate-Sulfite pH Oscillators with Mn2+ or MnO4- as a Negative-Feedback Species Noriaki Okazaki, Gyula Rábai, and Ichiro Hanazaki 10921-10934 The Six-Membered Intramolecular Hydrogen Bond Position as a Switch for Inducing an Excited State Intramolecular Proton Transfer (ESIPT) in Esters of o-Hydroxynaphthoic Acids Javier Catalán, Juan C. del Valle, José Palomar, Cristina Díaz, and José L. G. de Paz 10935-10944 Spectroscopic and Kinetic Study of the Cl-S(CH3)2 Adduct S. P. Urbanski and P. H. Wine 10945-10954 Experimental and Theoretical Study of the Formation of Silicon-Carbon Ion Species in Gaseous Silane/Ethene Mixtures Paola Antoniotti, Carlo Canepa, Lorenza Operti, Roberto Rabezzana, Glauco Tonachini, and Gian Angelo Vaglio 10955-10960 Intramolecular Singlet and Triplet Energy Transfer in a Ruthenium(II) Diimine Complex Containing Multiple Pyrenyl Chromophores Daniel S. Tyson and Felix N. Castellano
MOLECULAR STRUCTURE, BONDING, QUANTUM CHEMISTRY, AND GENERAL THEORY
10961-10968 Theoretical Studies of the Substitution Patterns in Heterofullerenes C60-xNx and C60-xBx (x = 2-8) 10969-10974 Bonding of NO2 to the Au Atom and Au(111) Surface: A Quantum Chemical Study Xin Lu, Xin Xu, Nanqin Wang, and Qianer Zhang 10975-10980 Small Charged Water Clusters: Anions Yulia V. Novakovskaya and Nikolai F. Stepanov 10981-10992 A Theory of Electron Transfer and Steady-State Optical Spectra of Chromophores with Varying Electronic Polarizability Dmitry V. Matyushov and Gregory A. Voth 10993-10997 Searching the Conformational Space of Cyclic Molecules: A Molecular Mechanics and Density Functional Theory Study of 9-Crown-3 B. Jagannadh and Jagarlapudi A. R. P. Sarma 10998-11003 A DFT/Electron Localization Function (ELF) Study of the Bonding of Phosphinidenes with N-Heterocyclic Carbenes Gilles Frison and Alain Sevin 11004-11010 Stochastic Dynamics in Irreversible Nonequilibrium Environments. 3. Temperature-Ramped Chemical Kinetics Frank L. Somer, Jr. and Rigoberto Hernandez 11011-11019 Density Functional and MP2 Studies of Germylene Insertion into C-H, Si-H, N-H, P-H, O-H, S-H, F-H, and Cl-H Bonds Ming-Der Su and San-Yan Chu 11020-11025 Matrix-Isolation FT-IR Studies and Theoretical Calculations of Different Types of Hydrogen-Bonding: 2-Hydroxypyridine/2-Oxopyridine Complexed with HCl A. Dkhissi, L. Houben, R. Ramaekers, L. Adamowicz, and G. Maes 11026-11033 Ab Initio Calculation of the Heats of Formation of Nitrosamides: Comparison with Nitramides Zhi Chen and Tracy P. Hamilton 11034-11039 Ab Initio MO Study of Diverse Si3H3+ Isomers Gantasala Naga Srinivas and Eluvathingal D. Jemmis , Anatoli A. Korkin and Paul von R. Schleyer 11040-11044 Ab Initio Study of Unimolecular Decomposition of Nitroethylene Asta Gindulyt and Lou Massa , Lulu Huang and Jerome Karle 11045-11051 Proposed Mechanism of 1,1-Diamino-Dinitroethylene Decomposition: A Density Functional Theory Study Asta Ginduly and Lou Massa, Lulu Huang and Jerome Karle 11052-11059 p-Quinone Dimers: H-Bonding vs Stacked Interaction. Matrix-Isolation Infrared and ab Initio Study A. M. Plokhotnichenko, E. D. Radchenko, S. G. Stepanian, and L. Adamowicz 11060-11079 A Smooth Solvation Potential Based on the Conductor-Like Screening Model Darrin M. York and Martin Karplus 11080-11088 Potential Energy Surfaces for LiH2 and Photochemical Reactions Li*+ H2 LiH + H Hyo Sug Lee and Yoon Sup Lee , Gwang-Hi Jeung 11089-11095 Photodissociation of N2O. I. Ab Initio Potential Energy Surfaces for the Low-Lying Electronic States 1A', 2 1A', and 1 1A' ' Alex Brown, Pedro Jimeno, and Gabriel G. Balint-Kurti 11096-11103 First-Principles Calculations of Pyridines: From Monomer to Polymer Mariana E. Vaschetto , Bernardo A. Retamal, and Andrew P. Monkman , Michael Springborg 11104-11108 Ab Initio Study of Energetics of Protonation and Hydrogen Bonding o f Pyridine N-Oxide and Its Derivatives Mariusz Makowski, Adam Liwo, Roman Wróbel, and Lech Chmurzy 11109-11114 Thermochemistry of N3O2- John W. Torchia, Kelly O. Sullivan, and Lee S. Sunderlin 11115-11120 Cu+ in Liquid Ammonia and in Water: Intermolecular Potential Function and Monte Carlo Simulation Harno D. Pranowo, A. H. Bambang Setiaji, and Bernd M. Rode 11121-11125 Heats of Formation for GeHn (n = 1-4) and Ge2Hn (n = 1-6) Alessandra Ricca and Charles W. Bauschlicher, Jr. 11126-11129 Heats of Formation for POn and POnH (n = 1-3) Charles W. Bauschlicher, Jr. 11130-11135 A Density Functional Study of Hyperfine Coupling Constants in Steroid Radicals Philippe Lahorte, Frank De Proft, Freddy Callens, Paul Geerlings, and Wim Mondelaers 11136-11144 Photophysics and Photochemistry of a Lignin-like Quinoid Dimer, 4,4'-Dimethoxybiphenyl-2,5,2',5'-bisquinone, in Relation to Color Alteration of Woody Materials Exposed to Daylight Stéphane Béarnais-Barbry, Roland Bonneau, and Alain Castellan 11145-11160 Intermolecular Coulombic Decay of Molecular Clusters: Identification of the Decay Mechanism Using a New Hole-Population Analysis J. Zobeley and L. S. Cederbaum, F. Tarantelli 11161-11171 Fluorinated Organosilicon Cations: A Comparison of Potential Energy Surfaces for SiC2Xn+ where X Is H or F and n = 1, 3, and 5 Anthony E. Ketvirtis, Diethard K. Bohme, and Alan C. Hopkinson 11172-11180 Extended Near-Infrared Resonance Raman Investigations of an Organic Mixed-Valence System: Diazatetracyclodiene Radical Cation Robert D. Williams and Joseph T. Hupp , Michael T. Ramm and Stephen F. Nelsen 11181-11187 Structure and Properties of p-Aminophenoxyl Radical Daniel M. Chipman 11188-11193 Sandwich-Type Complexes of Alkaline-Earth Metal Cations with a Bisstyryl Dye Containing Two Crown Ether Units Evgeny N. Ushakov, Sergei P. Gromov, Olga A. Fedorova, Yuliya V. Pershina, Michael V. Alfimov, Francesco Barigelletti, Lucia Flamigni, and Vincenzo Balzani 11194-11199 Ab Initio Calculations of Absolute pKa Values in Aqueous Solution I. Carboxylic Acids Clarissa O. da Silva, Edilson C. da Silva, and Marco Antonio Chaer Nascimento 11200-11211 Diaminocarbenes; Calculation of Barriers to Rotation about Ccarbene-N Bonds, Barriers to Dimerization, Proton Affinities, and 13C NMR Shifts Roger W. Alder and Michael E. Blake , Josep M. Oliva
GENERAL PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY
11212-11220 Multielectron Oxidation of Anthracenes with a One-Electron Oxidant via Water-Accelerated Electron-Transfer Disproportionation of the Radical Cations as the Rate-Determining Step Shunichi Fukuzumi, Ikuo Nakanishi, and Keiko Tanaka 11221-11226 Polymerization Mechanism of Di(benzylidene)tetrathiapentalenes into Linearly Extended TTF Polymers Philippe Hapiot,1a Fouad Salhi,1b Bernadette Divisia-Blohorn,1c and Harald Müller,1b 11227-11236 Photophysical and Electron Transfer Properties of C60(C6H5)5OH and C60(C6H4F)5OH: A Laser Flash Photolysis and Pulse Radiolysis Study Dipak K. Palit, H. Mohan, Paul R. Birkett, and Jai P. Mittal 11237-11245 Asphaltene Molecular Size and Structure Henning Groenzin and Oliver C. Mullins 11246-11249 HSAB Analysis of Charge Transfer in the Gas-Phase Acid-Base Equilibria of Alkyl-Substituted Alcohols Patricia Pérez, Alejandro Toro-Labbé, and Renato Contreras
COMMENTS

11250-11251 Comment on "Supercritical Fluid Tuning of Reactions Rates: the Cis-Trans Isomerization of 4-4'-Disubstituted Azobenzenes" Tsutomu Asano, Hideo D. Takagi, and Toshinori Usui 11252-11252 Reply to Comment on "Supercritical Fluid Tuning of Reaction Rates: The Cis-Trans Isomerization of 4-4'-Disubstituted Azobenzenes" A. K. Dillow, J. S. Brown, C. L. Liotta, and C. A. Eckert