International Symposium
on the Dissociative Recombination of Molecules with Electrons Theory, Experiment, and Applications
Sponsored by the Division of Physical Chemistry of
the American Chemical Society as part of the 222nd ACS National Meeting August 26-30, 2001 Chicago, Illinois
The symposium will cover all aspects of dissociative recombination,
i.e., reactions described by AB+ + e- -> A
+ B where e- is an electron, AB+ is a diatomic or
polyatomic molecular ion and A and B are the neutral fragmentation products.
Dissociative recombination is a
multifaceted process encompassing electron capture, autoionization and
fragmentation. The nuclear motion in the exit channel is similar
to that found in photodissociation, unimolecular decomposition and electron
attachment to neutrals. The symposium will cover experiment and theory
for each of these areas in addition to applications to the earth's ionosphere,
the ionospheres of other planets, and the interstellar medium.
The program will consist of invited and contributed talks and a poster
session. Both speakers and poster presenters should consult the ACS
Handbook for Speakers. All speakers are expected to submit a paper
describing the research covered in their presentation.These papers, after
peer review, will be collected into a volume to be published by Kluwer
Academic/Plenum Publishers.
The symposium
is scheduled for Monday-Thursday and all sessions will take place in room
S404A, level 4 of the convention center at McCormick Place South.
A pdf file containing the full Division of Physical Chemistry program
(Sunday-Thursday) can be viewed or downloaded by clicking on the pdf icon.
You can browse the full set of abstracts
for the symposium or use the search feature of your browser to locate
a particular author or subject. The abstracts are not listed in order of
presentation and are only for the oral papers. The abstracts for the entire
ACS meeting and the full schedule are now on the ACS
Meetings web site.
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for additional meeting and hotel information. All hotel reservations
should be made at that site.
This symposium is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation
and the Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society.
Invited Speakers
Below is an alphabetical list of invited speakers (as of August 14, 2001)
followed by lists of contributed papers and posters. Included with the
speaker’s affiliation is a tentative title.
Prof. Nigel Adams (with Toufik Mostefaoui, and Lucia M. Babcock)
Univ. of Georgia
Technique for distinguishing and determining the origin of photon emissions
from He+/Ar+ plasmas: Recombination emission with
addition of OCS, CS2 and H2S
Prof. Gabriel Balint-Kurti (with J. N. Harvey and A. Brown)
Univ. of Bristol, United Kingdom
Molecular Photodissociation and Dissociative Recombination
Prof. Fred Biondi
Univ. of Pittsburgh
Dissociative Recombination of Electrons and Ions - the Early Experiments
Prof. Laurie J. Butler
University of Chicago
Electronic Accessibility of Product Channels in Photodissociation:
Implications for Dissociative Recombination Processes
Dr. Philip C. Cosby (with James R. Peterson, and David L. Huestis)
SRI International
Dissociative Recombination of Vibrationally Excited Levels of O2+
Prof. Tom Cravens
University of Kansas
Dissociative Recombination in Planetary and Cometary Aeronomy
Prof. Olivier Dulieu
Universite Paris-Sud, France
Associative Ionization with Cold Atoms
Dr. Thom Dunning (with Tanja van Mourik and Kirk A. Peterson)
North Carolina Supercomputing Center and Environmental Molecular Sciences
Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Advances in the Calculation of Electron Affinities
Prof. Ilya Fabricant
Univ. of Nebraska
Dissociative Electron Attachment in Gas and Condensed Phases
Prof. Ray Flannery (with D. D. Vrinceanu)
Georgia Tech
Stark Mixing in Dissociative Recombination
Prof. Juraj Glosik (with Radek Plasil, Vitoria Poterya, Pavel Kudrna,
Milan Tichy, and Andriy Pysanenko)
Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Recombination of H3+ with electrons - low limit
of the recombination rate coefficient
Dr. Maxim Golubkov (with G. V. Golubkov and A. N. Romanov)
Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
The Reaction, e- + O2+, in a Strong
Laser Field
Prof. Chris Greene (with V. Kokoouline and B. D. Esry)
University of Colorado
Importance of Jahn-Teller coupling in the Dissociative Recombination
of H3+ by Low Energy Electrons
Prof. Hanspeter Helm
Univ. of Freiburg, Germany
Selective Observation of Resonances in the Dissociative Recombination
Process of Low Energy Electrons with H3+
Prof. Ken Hardy
Florida International University
The Dissociative Recombination of the Helium Molecular Ion
Prof. Eric Herbst
Ohio State University
Dissociative Recombination in Interstellar Clouds
Prof. Rainer Johnsen
Univ. of Pittsburgh
Optical Spectroscopy of Recombining Ions in Flowing Afterglow
Plasmas.
Prof. Ronnie Kosloff
Hebrew University, Israel
Impulsive Photodissociation Dynamics
Mr. Sven Krohn (with Holger Kreckel, Lutz Lammich, Michael Lange, Dirk
Schwalm, Daniel Strasser, Andreas Wolf, and Daniel Zajfman)
Max-Planck Institute for Nuclear Research, Heidelberg, Germany and
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Electron Induced Vibrational Cooling of the Hydrogen Molecular Ions
H2+ and D2+
Prof. Mats Larssen
Stockholm University, Sweden
Studies of Electron-molecular Ion Dissociative Recombination Using
Ion Storage Rings
Prof. J. Brian A. Mitchell (with Robert H. Lipson)
Université de Rennes, France and University of Western Ontario,
Canada
Dissociative recombination of Xe2+ and XeH+
Prof. Hiroki Nakamura
Institute for Molecular Science, Japan
Analytical Treatment of the K-Matrix Integral Equation
Prof. Cheuk-Yiu Ng
U.S. Dept. of Energy and Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa Absolute Cross
Sections for State-Selected Ion-Molecule Reactions Involving O+(4S,
2D,
2P)
Prof. Takeshi Oka
University of Chicago
Help !! Theory for H3+ Recombination Badly Needed
Prof. Ann Orel
Univ. of California at Davis
Wave Packet Studies of Dissociative Recombination
Prof. Arnaud Le Padellec Université
Paul Sabatier-Toulouse, France
Dissociative Recombination of CN+, HCN+
and HNC+
Mr. Franck Le Petit
Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France
Dissociative recombination and deuterium fractionation in interstellar
clouds
Dr. Stephen Pratt (with Joel A. Bacon, and Costa A. Raptis)
Argonne National Laboratory
Vibrational Autoionization in Small Molecules
Prof. Christiane Rebrion-Rowe
Université de Rennes, France
Reactions of Electrons with Hydrocarbon Cations: from Linear Alkanes
to Aromatic Species
Prof. Bertrand Rowe
Université de Rennes, France
Dissociative Electron Attachment at Low Temperature with Molecules
and Clusters
Prof. Reinhard Schinke
Max Planck Institute, Gottingen, Germany
Photodissociation and unimolecular dissociation of molecules
Prof. Annick Suzor-Weiner (with Ioan F. Schneider)
Université Paris-Sud and Université du Havre, France
Channel mixing effects in dissociative recombination and related processes
Prof. Hidekazu Takagi
Kitasato University, Japan
Extension of the Quantum Defect Theory and its Application to Electron
and Molecular Ion Collisions
Dr. Dahbia Talbi
Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France
Dissociative Recombination of an Ion of Astrophysical Interest :Quantum
Chemical Calculations
Dr. Tetsume Tanabe (with Katsuhisa Chida, Koji Noda, and Ikuo Watanabe)
High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Japan
An Electrostatic Storage Ring for the Research of Electron-ion Collisions
at KEK
Dr. Richard Thomas (with S. Datz, C. R. Vane, S. Rosén, M. Larsson,
and
W. van der Zande)
Stockholm University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Dynamics of Three Body Dissociative Recombination of Di-hydrides
Prof. Xavier Urbain
Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
State-selected Associative Ionization as a Probe of the Molecular Dissociative
Channels
Prof. Daniel Zajfman (with Daniel Strasser, Lutz Lammich, Sven Krohn,
Michael Lange, Holger Kreckel, Jacob Levin, Dirk Schwalm, and Andreas Wolf)
Weizmann Institute, Israel and Max Planck Institut fur Kernphysik,
Germany
Three Body Kinematical Correlation in the Dissociative Recombination
of H3+
Prof. Wim van der Zande
FOM Institute, The Netherlands
Dissociative recombination of atmospherically relevant ions
Prof. Richard N. Zare (with I. Konnen and R. Zhao)
Stanford University
Experimental studies of Vibrational Autoionization -- the Inverse of
Ion Recombination
Contributed Papers scheduled for oral presentation:
Abraham F. Jalbout (with Ludwik Adamowicz) The University of
Arizona
Chiral recognition via excess electron attachment to the 1,3-butandiol/2-butanol
complex: Ab initio study
Q.-B. Lu with (L. Sanche) University of Sherbrooke
Great enhancements in dissociative electron attachment to chlorine-containing
molecules adsorbed on H2O / NH3 ice
D. Strasser (with J. Levin, H. B. Petersen, O. Heber, A. Wolf, D. Schwalm,
and D. Zajfman)
Weizmann Institute of Science and Max-Planck Institut fur Kernphysik
Branching ratio in the dissociative recombination of polyatomic ions
Motomichi Tashiro (with Shigeki Kato) Kyoto University,
Japan
Quantum dynamical study of H3+ recombination
Posters
These are scheduled for Wednesday evening:
Ab initio calculations for the three-body C2 + H + H dissociative
channel of acetylene. A. M. Derkatch, B. F. Minaev, M. Larsson
Dissociative recombination of NO+ . A. Petrignani, F. Hellberg,
S. Rosen, R. Thomas, A. Neau, M. Larsson, W. van der Zande
Dissociative recombination of protonated dimer ions. J. Glosik, R. Plasil,
P. Zakouril, V. Poterya
Electron collisions on C4- : Detachment and dissociation.
A. Le Padellec, F. Rabilloud, D. Pegg, K. Andersson, D. Hanstorp, A. Neau,
M. Larsson, F. Hellberg, R. Thomas
Investigating the three-body fragmentation dynamics of triatomic molecules
using dissociative recombination and theoretical calculations. R. D. Thomas,
S. Rosén, A. M. Derkatch, F. Hellberg, M. Larsson, S. Datz, R. N.
Dixon, W. J. van der Zande
Merged beam studies of the associative ionization process. A. Le Padellec,
X. Urbain, T. Nzeyimana, E. Naji
Enigma of H3+ in diffuse interstellar clouds.
B. J. McCall, T. Oka
Other symposia at the Chicago meeting sponsored by the Division of Physical
Chemistry are:
Physical Chemistry of Gas-Particle Interactions,
Computational Chemistry in the Undergraduate Curriculum,
What Can We Really Learn about Condensed Phases from Clusters?
Molecular Electronics,
Signal Processing in Chemistry,
First-Principles Simulation of Chemical Dynamics,
Stereochemistry in Aligned Environments, and
Three-Dimensional Si-O Cages: Materials for the 21st Century.
