Journal of Physical Chemistry, 2004, V 108, N 28, 15 July.

LETTERS
  
 Femtosecond Time-Resolved Stimulated Raman
 Spectroscopy of the S2 (1Bu+) Excited State of -Carotene
Philipp Kukura, David W. McCamant, 
and Richard A. Mathies
pp 5921 - 5925;
 
ARTICLES
 
DYNAMICS AND RELAXATION 
 
Ultrafast Pump-Probe Studies of tert-Butyl 
Aroylperbenzoates and Triplet Energy 
Interception by the O-O Bond
Bipin K. Shah, Alex Gusev, Michael A. J. Rodgers, 
and Douglas C. Neckers
pp 5926 - 5931; 
 
Migration of Protons during the Excited-State
Tautomerization of Aqueous 3-Hydroxyquinoline
Hyunung Yu, Oh-Hoon Kwon, and Du-Jeon Jang
pp 5932 - 5937;

Time-Resolved Impulsive Stimulated Raman 
Studies of 1,1'-Binaphthyl in the Excited State: 
Low-Frequency Vibrations and 
Conformational Relaxation
Satoru Fujiyoshi, Satoshi Takeuchi, and Tahei Tahara
pp 5938 - 5943; 

SPECTROSCOPY, GASEOUS CLUSTERS, AND MOLECULAR BEAMS 
 
Photoionization Efficiency Curve Measurements of 
Alkali Metal Atom-Methyl Propiolate Clusters: 
Observation of Intracluster Cyclotrimerization Products
Hironori Tsunoyama, Fuminori Misaizu, 
and Koichi Ohno
pp 5944 - 5949; 
 
Matrix Isolation Infrared Spectroscopic and
Density Functional Theoretical Studies of the 
Reactions of Scandium Atoms with Methanol
Mohua Chen, Zhengguo Huang, and Mingfei Zhou
pp 5950 - 5955;
 
The Heats of Formation of tert-Butyl Isocyanide 
and Other Alkyl Isocyanides by Photoelectron 
Photoion Coincidence Spectroscopy
Hideya Koizumi and Tomas Baer
pp 5956 - 5961; 

KINETICS; ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY 
 
Ring Expansion and Isomerization in N-Methylindole
and N-Methyleneindole Radical. Quantum
Chemical and Kinetics Calculations
Faina Dubnikova and Assa Lifshitz
pp 5962 - 5971; 
 
Quantum Mechanical and Rice-Ramsperger-
Kassel-Marcus Investigation of the Thermal 
Unimolecular Decomposition of CF2BrO
and CF2ClO Radicals
Evangelos Drougas, Agnie M. Kosmas, 
and Abraham F. Jalbout
pp 5972 - 5978; 
 
A Product Yield Study of the Reaction of HO2 
Radicals with Ethyl Peroxy (C2H5O2), Acetyl 
Peroxy (CH3C(O)O2), and Acetonyl Peroxy 
(CH3C(O)CH2O2) Radicals
Alam S. Hasson, Geoffrey S. Tyndall, 
and John J. Orlando
pp 5979 - 5989; 

MOLECULAR STRUCTURE, BONDING, QUANTUM CHEMISTRY, AND GENERAL THEORY 
 
Modeling the Substituent Effect on the 
Oxidative Degradation of Azo Dyes
Alimet Sema Ozen, Viktorya Aviyente,
Frank De Proft, and Paul Geerlings
pp 5990 - 6000; 
 
A Quantum Chemical Study of the 
Unimolecular Decomposition Mechanisms 
of Zinc Dialkyldithiophosphate Antiwear Additives
Nicholas J. Mosey and Tom K. Woo
pp 6001 - 6016; 
 
VBPCM: A Valence Bond Method that
Incorporates a Polarizable Continuum Model
Lingchun Song, Wei Wu, Qianer Zhang, 
and Sason Shaik
pp 6017 - 6024; 
 
Toward Understanding the Electron
Density Distribution in Magnetic Clusters:
Insight from the ELF and AIM Analyses 
of Ground-State Fe4
Slawomir Berski, Gennady L. Gutsev, 
Mogus D. Mochena, and Juan Andres
pp 6025 - 6031; 
 
Theoretical Investigation of Oxygen-17 
NMR Shielding and Electric Field 
Gradients in Glutamic Acid Polymorphs
Jonathan R. Yates, Chris J. Pickard, 
Mike C. Payne, Ray Dupree, Mickael Profeta, 
and Francesco Mauri
pp 6032 - 6037; 
 
Influence of Stacking on Hydrogen Bonding: 
Quantum Chemical Study on Pyridine-Benzene
Model Complexes
Pierre Mignon, Stefan Loverix, 
Frank De Proft, and Paul Geerlings
pp 6038 - 6044; 

Solvent Effect on Density Functional Reactivity
Indexes Applied to Substituted Nickel Phthalocyanines
Claudia A. Caro, Jose H. Zagal, Fethi Bedioui, 
Carlo Adamo, and Gloria I. Cardenas-Jiron
pp 6045 - 6051; 
 
DFT and HF Studies of the Geometry,
Electronic Structure, and Vibrational Spectra 
of 2-Nitrotetraphenylporphyrin and Zinc 
2-Nitrotetraphenylporphyrin
Wei Li, Yi-Bo Wang, Ioanna Pavel, Yong Ye, 
Zhang-Ping Chen, Ming-Dao Luo, Ji-Ming Hu,
and Wolfgang Kiefer
pp 6052 - 6058; 
 
Blue-Shifting or Red-Shifting Hydrogen 
Bonding? Predictions for Haloform Complexes
with Dimethyl Ether on the Basis of Perturbation Theory
Wouter A. Herrebout, Sofie N. Delanoye, 
and Benjamin J. van der Veken
pp 6059 - 6064; 
 
Three-Dimensional ab Initio Potential and 
Ground State Dynamics of the HeI2 Complex
Rita Prosmiti, Alvaro Valdes, Pablo Villarreal, 
and Gerardo Delgado-Barrio
pp 6065 - 6071; 
 
Ground and Low-Lying States of Cu2+-H2O. 
A Difficult Case for Density Functional Methods
J. Poater, M. Sola, A. Rimola, 
L. Rodriguez-Santiago, and M. Sodupe
pp 6072 - 6078; 

GENERAL PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY 
 
Additivity Rule Holds in Supercooling of
Aqueous Solutions
H. Kanno, K. Miyata, K. Tomizawa, 
and H. Tanaka
pp 6079 - 6082;