Journal of Physical Chemistry, 2002, V 106, N 18, May 09.


ARTICLES

DYNAMICS AND RELAXATION
Solvation Dynamics of Coumarin-153 in a Room-Temperature Ionic Liquid Rana Karmakar and Anunay Samanta pp 4447 - 4452; Spin Effects on Decay Dynamics of Charge-Separated States Generated by Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Zinc Porphyrin-Naphthalenediimide Dyads Yukie Mori, Yoshio Sakaguchi, and Hisaharu Hayashi pp 4453 - 4467; Effect of Molecular Additives on Electron Mobility and Electron-Ion Recombination Rate Constant in Dense Gaseous Krypton Mariusz Wojcik and M. Tachiya pp 4468 - 4475; Experimental NMRD Profiles for Some Low-Symmetry Ni(II) Complexes (S = 1) in Solution and Their Interpretation Using Slow-Motion Theory Tomas Nilsson, Giacomo Parigi, and Jozef Kowalewski pp 4476 - 4488; From Molecular Complexes to Zwitterions and Final Products. Reactions between C3O2 and Amines Bintou Sessouma, Isabelle Couturier-Tamburelli, Maurice Monnier, Ming Wah Wong, Curt Wentrup, and Jean Pierre Aycard pp 4489 - 4497;
SPECTROSCOPY, GASEOUS CLUSTERS, AND MOLECULAR BEAMS
Behavior of Silicon and Germanium Clusters on a C60 Fullerene M. Ohara, Y. Nakamura, Y. Negishi, K. Miyajima, A. Nakajima, and K. Kaya pp 4498 - 4501; Matrix-Isolation FT-IR Study and Theoretical Calculations of the Hydrogen-Bond Interaction of Hypoxanthine with H2O Riet Ramaekers, Ahmed Dkhissi, Ludwik Adamowicz, and Guido Maes pp 4502 - 4512; Time-Resolved Resonance Raman Spectroscopic Studies on the Radical Anions of Methyl-1,4-benzoquinone and 2,6-Dimethyl-1,4-benzoquinone Himansu Mohapatra and Siva Umapathy pp 4513 - 4518; Metal-to-Ligand Charge Transfer Excited-State (CO) Shifts in Rigid Media Dana M. Dattelbaum and Thomas J. Meyer pp 4519 - 4524; Reaction of Benzene Molecule on Size-Selected Nickel Cluster Ions Tetsu Hanmura, Masahiko Ichihashi, and Tamotsu Kondow pp 4525 - 4528; Infrared Photodissociation Spectroscopy of Protonated Formic Acid-Water Binary Clusters, H+·(HCOOH)n·H2O (n = 1-5). Spectroscopic Study of Ion Core Switch Model and Magic Number Yoshiya Inokuchi and Nobuyuki Nishi pp 4529 - 4535; FTIR Investigation of the Fluorocyclohexane Ring Inversion in Liquid Kr Alexandr I. Fishman, Wouter A. Herrebout, and Benjamin J. van der Veken pp 4536 - 4542; Fragmentation Chemistry of DMSO Complexes of Metal Dications Alexandre A. Shvartsburg and Jon G. Wilkes pp 4543 - 4551; Effect of Solute-Solvent Compatibility on Total Luminescence Spectra of Perylene in Shpol'skii Matrixes at Liquid Helium Temperature Krystyna Palewska, Jo'zef Lipiski, Tomasz Misiaszek, and Juliusz Sworakowski pp 4552 - 4557;
KINETICS; ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY
Kinetics and Mechanism of HO2 Uptake on Solid NaCl R. G. Remorov, Yu. M. Gershenzon, L. T. Molina, and M. J. Molina pp 4558 - 4565; Continuous Measurements of the Water Activities of Aqueous Droplets of Water- Soluble Organic Compounds Man Yee Choi and Chak K. Chan pp 4566 - 4572; Evidence for Scission in the Oxidation of Amino Acids Pawel Wisniowski, Ian Carmichael, Richard W. Fessenden, and Gordon L. Hug pp 4573 - 4580; Gas-Phase Reactions of Transition-Metal Ions with Molecular Oxygen: Room- Temperature Kinetics and Periodicities in Reactivity Gregory K. Koyanagi, Doina Caraiman, Voislav Blagojevic, and Diethard K. Bohme pp 4581 - 4590; Femtosecond Multicolor Pump-Probe Study of Ultrafast Electron Transfer of [(NH3)5RuIIINCRuII(CN)5]- in Aqueous Solution Dong Hee Son, Patanjali Kambhampati, Tak W. Kee, and Paul F. Barbara pp 4591 - 4597; The Selective OH Radical Oxidation of Sorbitylfurfural: A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study Salvatore S. Emmi, Mila D'Angelantonio, Gabriella Poggi, Marialuisa Russo, Giancarlo Beggiato, and Bo Larsen pp 4598 - 4607; Thermally Stable Sites for Electron Capture in Directly Ionized DNA: Free Radicals Produced by the Net Gain of Hydrogen at C5/C6 of Cytosine and Thymine in Crystalline Oligodeoxynucleotides Michael G. Debije and William A. Bernhard pp 4608 - 4615;
MOLECULAR STRUCTURE, BONDING, QUANTUM CHEMISTRY, AND GENERAL THEORY
An ab Initio Study of the Reaction of Propargyl Cation with Ammonia Ramo'n Lo'pez, Emma del Ri'o, M. Isabel Mene'ndez, and Toma's L. Sordo pp 4616 - 4622; A PW91 Density Functional Study of Conformational Choice in 2-Phenylethanol, n-Butylbenzene, and Their Cations: Problems for Density Functional Theory? Matthew D. Patey and Caroline E. H. Dessent pp 4623 - 4631; Global Hardness Evaluation Using Simplified Models for the Hardness Kernel Miquel Torrent-Sucarrat, Miquel Duran, and Miquel Sola` pp 4632 - 4638; On the Stability of N5+N5- Stefan Fau, Kenneth J. Wilson, and Rodney J. Bartlett pp 4639 - 4644; Quantum Chemical and Conventional Transition-State Theory Calculations of Rate Constants for the NO3 + Alkane Reaction Graciela Bravo-Pe'rez, J. Rau'l Alvarez-Idaboy, Armando Cruz-Torres, and Ma. Esther Rui'z pp 4645 - 4650; An Experimental Determination of the Cr-DMB (DMB = 3,3-Dimethyl-1-butene) Bond Energy in Cr(CO)5(DMB): Effects of Alkyl Substitution on Chromium-Olefin Bond Energies in Cr(CO)5(olefin) Complexes David L. Ceden~o and Eric Weitz pp 4651 - 4660; Competition between X···H···Y Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonds and X····Y (X = O, S, and Y = Se, Te) Chalcogen-Chalcogen Interactions Pablo Sanz, Manuel Ya'n~ez, and Otilia Mo' pp 4661 - 4668; Effects of Hydrogen Bonding to Amines on the Phenol/Phenoxyl Radical Oxidation Ying Fang, Lei Liu, Yong Feng, Xiao-Song Li, and Qing-Xiang Guo pp 4669 - 4678; Optimization of Conical Intersections with Floating Occupation Semiempirical Configuration Interaction Wave Functions A. Toniolo, M. Ben-Nun, and T. J. Marti'nez pp 4679 - 4689; 5-N5- -Metal- 7-N73-: A New Class of Compounds Laura Gagliardi and Pekka Pyykko" pp 4690 - 4694; Blue-Shifting Hydrogen Bonds Kersti Hermansson pp 4695 - 4702; Temporary Anion States of closo-Carboranes and Diethyl Carborane K. Aflatooni, G. A. Gallup, and P. D. Burrow pp 4703 - 4708; A Theoretical Study of Excited State Properties of Adenine-Thymine and Guanine- Cytosine Base Pairs M. K. Shukla and Jerzy Leszczynski pp 4709 - 4717; Intramolecular Bonding and Charge Distributions in XO4 (X = Si, P, S, Cl and Ge, As, Se, Br) Oxyanions from Topological Analyses of the Electron Density Jean-Franc,ois Boily pp 4718 - 4724; Heats of Formation of CBr, CHBr, and CBr2 from Ab Initio Quantum Chemistry David A. Dixon, W.A. de Jong, Kirk A. Peterson, and Joseph S. Francisco pp 4725 - 4728; Theoretical Analysis of the Electron Spin Density Distribution of the Flavin Semiquinone Isoalloxazine Ring within Model Protein Environments Jose' I. Garci'a, Milagros Medina, Javier Sancho, Pablo J. Alonso, Carlos Go'mez-Moreno, Jose' A. Mayoral, and Jesu's I. Marti'nez pp 4729 - 4735; Nonclassical Pathways for Silsesquioxane Growth Karl Jug and Igor P. Gloriozov pp 4736 - 4744; Theoretical Study of the Mechanism and Kinetics of Gas-Phase Ozone Additions to Ethene, Fluoroethene, and Chloroethene: A Multireference Approach Ivan Ljubi and Aleksandar Sablji pp 4745 - 4757;
GENERAL PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY
Redox and Acidity Properties of 2,2'- and 4,4'-Biphenol and the Corresponding Phenoxyl Radicals Mats Jonsson, Johan Lind, and Ga'bor Mere'nyi pp 4758 - 4762; Influence of the Structure of the Amino Group and Polarity of the Medium on the Photophysical Behavior of 4-Amino-1,8-naphthalimide Derivatives Satyen Saha and Anunay Samanta pp 4763 - 4771; Reduction of Cobalt and Iron Corroles and Catalyzed Reduction of CO2 Jan Grodkowski, Pedatsur Neta, Etsuko Fujita, Atif Mahammed, Liliya Simkhovich, and Zeev Gross pp 4772 - 4778; Cluster Structures in Aqueous HNO3 and H2SO4 Solutions: In Relation with Equivalent Conductivity Hitomi Kobara, Akihiro Wakisaka, Koji Takeuchi, and Takashi Ibusuki pp 4779 - 4783; Electron Transfer Reactions of C-shaped Molecules in Alkylated Aromatic Solvents: Evidence that the Effective Electronic Coupling Magnitude Is Temperature-Dependent Andrew M. Napper, Ian Read, David H. Waldeck, Ruth W. Kaplan, and Matthew B. Zimmt pp 4784 - 4793;
ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS

New Insights in Chemical Reactivity by Means of Electron Pairing Analysis Jordi Poater, Miquel Sola`, Miqel Duran, and XavierFradera: pp 4794 - 4794;