The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2001, V 105, N 35, 6 September.

LETTERS

8117-8122
Efficient Generation of the Ligand Field Excited State of Tris-(2,2'-
bipyridine)-ruthenium(II) through Sequential Two-Photon Capture by 
[Ru(bpy)3]2+ or Electron Capture by 
[Ru(bpy)3]3+ 
David W. Thompson, James F. Wishart, Bruce S. Brunschwig, and Norman Sutin 

ARTICLES

DYNAMICS AND RELAXATION

8123-8129
Femtosecond Time-Resolved Fluorescence Study of Photoisomerization of trans-
Azobenzene 
Tatsuya Fujino, Sergei Yu. Arzhantsev, and Tahei Tahara 

8130-8135
Formation and Autoionization of a Dipole-Forbidden Superexcited State of 
CS2 
Yasumasa Hikosaka  and Koichiro Mitsuke 

8136-8144
Solvent Dependence of Electronic Relaxation in All-trans Retinal Studied by One- 
and Two-Photon Induced Transient Absorption 
Erica J. Larson, Sarah J. Pyszczynski, and Carey K. Johnson 

8145-8153
Substituent Effects in the Binding of Alkali Metal Ions to Pyridines Studied by 
Threshold Collision-Induced Dissociation and ab Initio Theory: The 
Aminopyridines 
M. T. Rodgers 

8154-8161
Excited State Processes in Ruthenium(II)/Pyrenyl Complexes Displaying Extended 
Lifetimes 
Daniel S. Tyson, Kevin B. Henbest, Jason Bialecki, and Felix N. Castellano 

SPECTROSCOPY, GASEOUS CLUSTERS, AND MOLECULAR BEAMS

8162-8175
Infrared Spectroscopy of H-Bonded Bridges Stretched across the cis-Amide Group: 
II. Ammonia and Mixed Ammonia/Water Bridges 
A. V. Fedorov and J. R. Cable, Joel R. Carney and Timothy S. Zwier 

8176-8182
Cage Structure and Long-Range Order in Solid Rare Gas Matrixes:  A Combined FTIR 
and XRD Study 
Erich Knözinger,* Ewald Babka, and Doris Hallamasek 

KINETICS; ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY

8183-8188
Adsorption of Water on 8-15 nm NaCl and (H4)2SO4 Aerosols Measured Using an Ultrafine 
Tandem Differential Mobility Analyzer 
Sami Romakkaniemi, Kaarle Hämeri, Minna Väkevä, and Ari Laaksonen 

8189-8195
Logical Functions of a Cross Junction of Excitable Chemical Media 
Jakub Sielewiesiuk and Jerzy Górecki 

8196-8199
Wide Temperature Range Kinetics of the O + CHF3 Reaction 
Abel Fernandez and Arthur Fontijn 

MOLECULAR STRUCTURE, BONDING, QUANTUM CHEMISTRY, AND GENERAL THEORY

8200-8205
Electronic Structure of 1,5-Cyclooctadiene-copper(I)-hexafluoroacetylacetonate 
L. G. Bulusheva, A. V. Okotrub, T. I. Liskovskaya, S. A. Krupoder, 
A. V. Gusel'nikov,A. V. Manaev, and V. F. Traven 

8206-8215
Is the C2H+H2O Reaction Anomalous? 
Yi-hong Ding, Xiang Zhang, Ze-sheng Li, Xu-ri Huang, and Chia-chung Sun 

8216-8222
Quantum Chemical Studies of Carbohydrate Reactivity:  Acid Catalyzed Ring 
Opening Reactions 
Matthias Mohr, Richard A. Bryce, and Ian H. Hillier 

8223-8225
Are Guanine Tetrads Stabilized by Bifurcated Hydrogen Bonds? 
Michael Meyer, Maria Brandl, and Jürgen Sühnel 

8226-8235
Identity Hydrogen Abstraction Reactions, X  + H-X'  X-H + 
X' (X = X' = CH3, SiH3, GeH3, 
SnH3, PbH3):  A Valence Bond Modeling 
Sason Shaik, Wei Wu, Kunming Dong, Lingchun Song, and Philippe C. Hiberty 

8236-8240
Symmetry, Radical Ions, and Butadienes:  Exploring the Limits of Density 
Functional Theory 
Jonas Oxgaard and Olaf Wiest 

8241-8247
MC/MO Study of the Solvent Effect on the Excitation Energies of the 
(CH3)2NO Radical in Hydrogen-Bonding and Non-Hydrogen-
Bonding Solvents 
Toru Yagi, Kenji Morihashi, and Osamu Kikuchi 

8248-8253
Equilibrium Structure, Spectroscopic Constants, and Gas-Phase Basicity of the 
Silaformyl Anion, HSiO- 
Jacek Koput and Zbigniew Dutkiewicz 

8254-8261
Convergence of the Electrostatic Interaction Based on Topological Atoms 
P. L. A. Popelier, L. Joubert, and D. S. Kosov 

8262-8268
Spin-Orbit Splittings in the Third-Row Transition Elements:  Comparison of 
Effective Nuclear Charge and Full Breit-Pauli Calculations 
Shiro Koseki, Dmitri G. Fedorov, Michael W. Schmidt, and Mark S. Gordon