The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2001, V 105, N 24, 21 June.

LETTERS

 5727-5730
Photofragment-Detected IR Spectroscopy (PFDIRS) for the OH
Stretching Vibration of the Hydrogen-Bonded Clusters in the S1
State-Application to 2-Naphthol-B (B = H2O and CH3OH) Clusters
Yoshiteru Matsumoto, Takayuki Ebata, and Naohiko Mikami

5731-5733
 The Anomalous Excited-State Temperature Behavior of trans-4,4'-Diaminostilbene 
and trans-4,4'-Di(phenyl-ureanyl)-stilbene 
Matthias Seydack and

ARTICLES

DYNAMICS AND RELAXATION

 5734-5742
Temperature Dependence of Solvation Dynamics in Alkylcyanobiphenyls 
J. Rau, C. Ferrante, E. Kneuper, F. W. Deeg, and C. Bräuchle 

 5743-5750
Wave Packet Calculation of Cross Sections, Product State Distributions, 
and Branching Ratios for the O(1D) + HCl Reaction 
Valentina Piermarini and Gabriel G. Balint-Kurti , Stephen K. Gray ,
Fahrettin Gögtas , Antonio Laganà and Maria Luz Hernández 

 5751-5758
 Unimolecular and Photoinduced Dissociations of Aromatic C8H10+
[Image] Molecular Ions Yeon Ho Kim, Joong Chul Choe, and Myung Soo Kim

 5759-5767
Determination of the Branching Ratios for the Reaction of Hot H
Atoms with BrCN and ClCN Brian K. Decker, G. He, I. Tokue, and R. Glen Macdonald

5768-5777
Excited State Dynamics of Methyl Viologen. Ultrafast Photoreduction in Methanol 
and Fluorescence in Acetonitrile
Jorge Peon, Xin Tan, J. David Hoerner, Chungeng Xia, Yin Fei Luk, and Bern Kohler 

SPECTROSCOPY, GASEOUS CLUSTERS, AND MOLECULAR BEAMS

 5778-5784
 Single Site Electronic Spectroscopy of Zinc and Magnesium
Chlorin in n-Octane Matrixes at 7 K Amarnauth Singh, Wen-Ying
Huang, Rachel Egbujor, and Lawrence W. Johnson 

 5785-5793
 Diffusional Anisotropy of Simple Sorbates in Silicalite
Sudeshna Kar and Charusita Chakravarty 

 5794-5800
 Influence of the Pyrolysis Conditions on the Nature of Lithium
Inserted in Hard Carbons S. Gautier, F. Leroux, E. Frackowiak,
A. M. Faugère, J.-N. Rouzaud, and F. Béguin 

 5801-5807
 Reactions of Mn with H2O and MnO with H2. Matrix-Isolation FTIR
and Quantum Chemical Studies Mingfei Zhou, Luning Zhang, Limin
Shao, Wenning Wang, Kangnian Fan, and Qizong Qin

5808-5811
 Vibrational Mode Assignments of Jet-Cooled m-Chlorobenzyl
Radical in the Ground Electronic State Sang Kuk Lee and Sang Youl Chae 

 5812-5822
 Precious Metal-Molecular Oxygen Complexes: Neon Matrix Infrared
Spectra and Density Functional Calculations for M(O2), M(O2)2
(M = Pd, Pt, Ag, Au) Xuefeng Wang and Lester Andrews

5823-5828
 ESR and Optical Properties of Copper Atoms in [Image]-Irradiated Organic
Solutions at 77 K Yoko Miyatake ,
Hirotomo Hase and Takeshi Saito , Masayoshi Onishi , Yusuke
Tajima and Mikio Hoshino 

 5829-5835
 Hydrogen Bonding and Chain Conformational Isomerization of
Alcohols Probed by Ultrasonic Absorption and Shear Impedance
Spectrometry R. Behrends and U. Kaatze 

 5836-5841
 Temporary [Image]* and [Image]* Anions and Dissociative
Electron Attachment in Chlorobenzene and Related Molecules
Alberto Modelli and Marco Venuti 

 5842-5848
 Conformational Analysis and Dynamics of 9-Propylfluorene and
9-Ethylfluorene Swarna Basu and J. L. Knee

KINETICS; ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY

 5849-5853
 Measurement of the Rate Coefficient for the Reaction of OH with
BrO Mary K. Gilles, David C. McCabe, James B. Burkholder, and A. R. Ravishankara 

 5854-5859
 Temperature-Dependent Kinetic Isotope Effects in the Gas-Phase
Reaction: OH + HBr Veronica I. Jaramillo and Mark A. Smith

5860-5867
 A Direct Sampling Mass Spectrometer Investigation of Oxidation
Mechanisms for Acetic Acid in Supercritical Water Sean P.Maharrey and
David R. Miller 

 5868-5876
 Challenge in Accurate Measurement of Fast Reversible
Bimolecular Reaction Kyril M. Solntsev and Dan Huppert , Noam Agmon 

 5877-5880
 Occurrence of Multiple Steady States in the Biphasic Alkaline
Hydrolysis of C-4 to C-8 Ethyl Alkanoates C. Roque, V. Pimienta,
D. Lavabre, and J. C. Micheau 

 5881-5884
 Kinetics and Mechanism of Reactions between Methyl Aromatic
Compounds and the Dibromide Radical Peter D. Metelski and James H. Espenson 

MOLECULAR STRUCTURE, BONDING, QUANTUM CHEMISTRY, AND GENERAL THEORY

 5885-5895
Theoretical Study on the Potential Energy Surface of the
1CH2+N2O Reaction Jian-jun Liu, Ji-kang Feng, Yi-hong Ding,
Ai-min Ren, Su-fan Wang, and Chia-chung Sun , Fan-ao Kong

5896-5901
 Theoretical Study on Potential Energy Surface of the Interstellar Molecule SiC2N 
Yi-hong Ding, Ze-sheng Li, Xu-ri Huang, and Chia-chung Sun 

 5902-5905
 Interaction of Dihydrogen with Gold (I) Hydride: Prospects for
Matrix-Isolation Studies 
Craig A. Bayse 

 5906-5910
Lowest Singlet and Triplet States of Copper, Silver, and Gold
Trihydrides: an ab Initio Study Nikolai B. Balabanov and James E. Boggs 

 5911-5922
Computational Studies of the Arabinofuranose Ring:
Conformational Preferences of Fully Relaxed Methyl
[Image]-D-arabinofuranoside Patrick R. McCarren, Matthew T.
Gordon, Todd L. Lowary, and Christopher M. Hadad

5923-5932
 Single-Valued DMBE Potential Energy Surface for HSO: A
Distributed n-Body Polynomial Approach E. Martínez-Núñez and A.J. C. Varandas 

 5933-5939
Stereoelectronic Effects in the Si-C Bond: A Study of the
Molecular Structure and Conformation of Tetraphenylsilane by
Gas-Phase Electron Diffraction and Theoretical Calculations
Anna Rita Campanelli , Fabio Ramondo and Aldo Domenicano , István Hargittai 

 5940-5944
A Consistent Approach toward Atomic Radii 
C. H. Suresh and Nobuaki Koga* 

 5945-5947
 Stability of Tetraoxocyclobutane Revised: Perturbation Theory
and Density Functional Scheme Haijun Jiao, Gilles Frapper,
Jean-François Halet, and Jean-Yves Saillard 

GENERAL PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY

 5948-5953
 Comparison of Diffusion Coefficients of Aryl Carbonyls and Aryl
Alcohols in Hydroxylic Solvents. Evidence that the Diffusion of
Ketyl Radicals in Hydrogen-Bonding Solvents Is Not Anomalous?
Tom Autrey,* Pramod Kandanarachchi, and James A. Franz

5954-5959
 Absorption Spectra, pKa, and Reduction Potential of Phenoxyl
Radical from 4,4'-Biphenol in Aqueous Medium Tomi Nath Das

5960-5964
 A Study on the Solvation Phenomena of Some Sodium Salts in
1,2-Dimethoxyethane from Conductance, Viscosity, Ultrasonic
Velocity, and FT-Raman Spectral Measurements Pitchai J. Victor,
Bijan Das, and Dilip K. Hazra