Journal of Physical Chemistry A, V 108, N 45, November 11.

 TOMAS BAER FESTSCHRIFT

GUEST EDITORS: BILL HASE AND ROGER MILLER 

 
Personal and Professional History of Tomas Baer
Bill Hase, and Roger Miller
pp 9625 - 9626; 
 
Why I Love Science: A Personal Statement
Tomas Baer
pp 9627 - 9628; 

Colleagues of Tomas Baer
pp 9629 - 9629; 
 
Publications of Tomas Baer
pp 9630 - 9636; 
 

ARTICLES
  
 
Vacuum Ultraviolet (VUV) Pulsed Field 
Ionization-Photoelectron and VUV-IR
Photoinduced Rydberg Ionization 
Study of trans-Dichloroethene
H. K. Woo, P. Wang, K. C. Lau,
X. Xing, and C. Y. Ng
pp 9637 - 9644; 
 
State-Selective Production of Vibrationally
Excited NO2+ by Double-Resonant
Photoionization
Patrice Bell, F. Aguirre,
E. R. Grant, and S. T. Pratt
pp 9645 - 9651; 
 
Collisional Stabilization and Thermal 
Dissociation of Highly Vibrationally 
Excited C9H12+ Ions from the Reaction 
O2+ + C9H12  O2 + C9H12+
Abel I. Fernandez, A. A. Viggiano, 
Thomas M. Miller, S. Williams,
I. Dotan, J. V. Seeley, and J. Troe
pp 9652 - 9659;
 
Is Spin Conserved in Heavy Metal 
Systems? Experimental and
Theoretical Studies of the Reaction
of Re+ with Methane
Matthew M. Armentrout, Feng-Xia Li,
and P. B. Armentrout
pp 9660 - 9672; 

Self-Assembled Monolayers of Hexapeptides
on Gold: Surface Characterization and 
Orientation Distribution Analysis
Xingu Wen, Richard W. Linton, 
Fernando Formaggio, Claudio Toniolo, 
and Edward T. Samulski
pp 9673 - 9681; 

Conformational Switching of Molecular 
Brushes in Response to the Energy 
of Interaction with the Substrate
Frank Sun, Sergei S. Sheiko, 
Martin Moller, Kathryn Beers, 
and Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
pp 9682 - 9686;
 
Fragmentation Mechanisms of
Glycine-Cu+ in the Gas Phase. An
Experimental and Theoretical Study
Yannik Hoppilliard, Gilles Ohanessian, 
and Sophie Bourcier
pp 9687 - 9696; 
 
Combined Quantum Chemical/RRKM-ME
Computational Study of the Phenyl +
Ethylene, Vinyl + Benzene, and H + 
Styrene Reactions
I. V. Tokmakov and M. C. Lin
pp 9697 - 9714; 
 
Infrared Depletion Spectroscopy and
Structure of the 2-Aminopyridine Dimer
Ronghu Wu and Bernhard Brutschy
pp 9715 - 9720;
 
Single and Double Photoelectron
Spectroscopy of Atomic Mercury
John H. D. Eland, Raimund Feifel,
and David Edvardsson
pp 9721 - 9725;
 
Entropy Changes in the Dissociation
of Proton-Bound Complexes: 
A Variational RRKM Study
Julie A. D. Grabowy and Paul M. Mayer
pp 9726 - 9732; 
 
Use of a Flowing Afterglow SIFT 
Apparatus To Study the Reactions 
of Ions with Organic Radicals
Xu Zhang, Shuji Kato, Veronica M. Bierbaum, 
Mark R. Nimlos, and G. Barney Ellison
pp 9733 - 9741; 
 
Photodissociation Dynamics
of ArNO Clusters
Bradley F. Parsons, David W. Chandler,
Elizabeth C. Sklute, Sissi L. Li, 
and Elisabeth A. Wade
pp 9742 - 9749; 
 
Negative Ion Photoelectron 
Spectroscopy of SiN- 
Giovanni Meloni, Sean M. Sheehan, 
Michael J. Ferguson, and 
Daniel M. Neumark
pp 9750 - 9754; 
 
Activation of Methane by MH+ 
(M = Fe, Co, and Ni): A Combined
Mass Spectrometric and DFT Study
Qiang Zhang and Michael T. Bowers
pp 9755 - 9761;  
 
Theoretical Survey of the Potential
Energy Surfaces Associated with 
the N+(3P,1D) + C2H4 Reactions 
in the Gas Phase
Ines Corral, Otilia Mo, and Manuel Yanez
pp 9762 - 9767; 

Computer Simulation Studies of Water
States in Perfluoro Polyether Reverse
Micelles: Effects of Changing the Counterion
Sanjib Senapati and Max L. Berkowitz
pp 9768 - 9776;
 
Kinetic Energy Release Distributions for
Tropylium and Benzylium Ion Formation
from the Toluene Cation
D. Fati, A. J. Lorquet, R. Locht, 
J. C. Lorquet, and B. Leyh
pp 9777 - 9786; 
 
Electrocatalysis in Nucleic Acid Molten Salts
Anthony M. Leone, Dominic O. Hull, 
Wei Wang, H. Holden Thorp, and Royce W. Murray
pp 9787 - 9793; 
 
Hyperthermal Reactions of O+(4S3/2) with
CD4 and CH4: Theory and Experiment
Dale J. Levandier, Yu-Hui Chiu,
Rainer A. Dressler, Lipeng Sun, 
and George C. Schatz
pp 9794 - 9804; 
 
Laser Plasma Production of Metal and
Metal Compound Complexes with 
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
T. M. Ayers, B. C. Westlake,
and M. A. Duncan
pp 9805 - 9813;
 
Heterogeneous Motion of Secretory
Vesicles in the Actin Cortex of Live Cells: 
3D Tracking to 5-nm Accuracy
Michael C. Konopka and 
James C. Weisshaar
pp 9814 - 9826; 
 
Gas-Phase Reactions of the Iodide
Ion with Chloromethane and Bromomethane: 
Competition between Nucleophilic 
Displacement and Halogen Abstraction
Laurence A. Angel and Kent M. Ervin
pp 9827 - 9833; 
 
Early Unfolding Response of a 
Stable Protein Domain to Environmental
Changes
Lalith Perera, Thomas A. Darden, 
Robert E. Duke, Divi Venkateswarlu,
and Lee G. Pedersen
pp 9834 - 9840;  
 
Photoexcitation of NO2 in Hen Droplets
above the Gas-Phase Dissociation 
Threshold
D. Stolyarov, E. Polyakova, and C. Wittig
pp 9841 - 9846; 
 
Photodissociation of the Hydroxymethyl
Radical from the 22A' '(3pz) State: H2CO
and HCOH Products
Lin Feng and Hanna Reisler
pp 9847 - 9852;

Low Energy Dissociation Processes
of Ionized Cyclohexene: A Theoretical Insight
Guy Bouchoux, Jean-Yves Salpin, 
and Manuel Yanez
pp 9853 - 9862; 
 
A PM3-SRP + Analytic Function Potential
Energy Surface Model for O(3P) Reactions
with Alkanes. Application to O(3P) + Ethane
Tianying Yan, Charles Doubleday, 
and William L. Hase
pp 9863 - 9875; 
 
Reaction Dynamics of H2O+ (D2O+) + NH3
Studied with Crossed Molecular Beams 
and Density Functional Theory Calculations
Yue Li and James M. Farrar
pp 9876 - 9886; 
 
Deuterium Kinetic Isotope Effects in the
Gas-Phase SN2 Reactions of Solvated 
Fluoride Ions with Methyl Halides
Shuji Kato, Jale Hacaloglu, Gustavo E. Davico, 
Charles H. DePuy, and Veronica M. Bierbaum
pp 9887 - 9891;
 
Blackbody Infrared Radiative Dissociation
of Partially Solvated Mixed Ligand Ru(II) 
Complex Ions
Stanley M. Stevens, Jr., Robert C. Dunbar, 
William D. Price, Marcelo Sena, 
Clifford H. Watson, Linda S. Nichols,
Jose M. Riveros, David E. Richardson,
and John R. Eyler
pp 9892 - 9900; 
 
Light Scattering Study of Polydimethyl
Siloxane in Liquid and Supercritical
Carbon Dioxide
Pascal Andre, Sarah L. Folk, 
Mireille Adam, Michael Rubinstein, 
and Joseph M. DeSimone
pp 9901 - 9907;
 
Structure of the Acetylene-Magnesium
Binary Complex from Infrared Laser
Spectroscopy in Helium Nanodroplets
D. T. Moore and R. E. Miller
pp 9908 - 9915; 
 
Velocity Imaging Studies on Ion-Pair
Dissociation of CH3Br + hVUV  CH3+
+ Br- as a Function of Wavelength
Dadong Xu, Jianhua Huang, 
Roosevelt J. Price, and
William M. Jackson
pp 9916 - 9923; 
 
State-Selective Predissociation
Spectroscopy of HCl+ and DCl+ Ions
Michael Michel, Mikhail V. Korolkov, 
and Karl-Michael Weitzel
pp 9924 - 9930; 
 
Protonated Benzene: A Case for
Structural Memory Effects?
Detlef Schroder, Jessica Loos,
Helmut Schwarz, Roland Thissen, 
and Odile Dutuit
pp 9931 - 9937;  
 
[Ru(bpy)2dppz]2+ Light-Switch
Mechanism in Protic Solvents as
Studied through Temperature-Dependent
Lifetime Measurements
Matthew K. Brennaman, 
Thomas J. Meyer, and John M. Papanikolas
pp 9938 - 9944; 
 
Vibrational Mode Effects as a Probe
of Inter-channel Coupling in the
Reactions of Formaldehyde Cation
with Ammonia and Water
Jianbo Liu, Brady Uselman,
Brian Van Devener, and Scott L. Anderson
pp 9945 - 9956;

Effect of Phosphine Substitution on the
Electronic Structure of Cobalt Tricarbonyl Nitrosyl
Zsolt Gengeliczki, Andras Bodi, and Balint Sztaray
pp 9957 - 9961; 
 
Dynamics of the Acetyloxyl Radical Studied
by Dissociative Photodetachment 
of the Acetate Anion
Zhou Lu and Robert E. Continetti
pp 9962 - 9969;
 
Pulsed-Field-Ionization Zero-Kinetic-Energy
(PFI-ZEKE) Photoelectron Spectroscopic 
Study of the Renner-Teller Effect
in the A+ 2 State of OCS+ 
M. Sommavilla and F. Merkt
pp 9970 - 9978; 
 
Introduction to Active Thermochemical
Tables: Several "Key" Enthalpies
of Formation Revisited
Branko Ruscic, Reinhardt E. Pinzon,
Melita L. Morton, Gregor von Laszevski, 
Sandra J. Bittner, Sandeep G. Nijsure, 
Kaizar A. Amin, Michael Minkoff, and
Albert F. Wagner
pp 9979 - 9997;  
 
15N+ + CD4 and O+ + 13CO2
State-Selected Ion-Molecule Reactions
Relevant to the Chemistry of Planetary
Ionospheres
Christian Alcaraz, Christophe Nicolas,
Roland Thissen, Jan Zabka, 
and Odile Dutuit
pp 9998 - 10009;
 
Higher Vibrationally Excited Levels
of the 3p 2 Rydberg State of HCO
K. Prentice, R. Nicodemus, 
B. Rajaram, and E. R. Grant
pp 10010 - 10018; 

Kinetics and Product Studies for 
Ozonolysis Reactions of Organic
Particles Using Aerosol CIMS
John D. Hearn and Geoffrey D. Smith
pp 10019 - 10029;
 
Cluster Phase Reactions: Alkylation 
of Triphosphate and DNA Anions
with Alkylammonium Cations
Robert Hodyss, Heather A. Cox,
and J. L. Beauchamp
pp 10030 - 10034;