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Structures, Energetics and Reaction Dynamics of Gaseous Ions

Gordon Research Conference

February 23 - 28, 1997
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Ventura Beach Marriott
2055 Harbor Boulevard
Ventura, California, United States
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Conference Program

Sunday. February 23

  • 2:00 PM Registration
  • 4:30 - 6:00 Reception & Poster Session I
  • 6:00 - 7:00 Dinner
  • 7:00 - 7:15 Opening Remarks/Announcements

Evening Session: Ion-Surface Interactions

  • 7:15 - 7:30 Discussion Leader: Steve Bernasek, Princeton University
  • 7:30 - 8:30 Graham Cooks, Purdue University - Dissociation, Reactions and Soft-Landing of Ions at Surfaces
  • 8:30 - 9:30 Vicki Wysocki, University of Arizona - Leo Different Facets of Ion-Surface Collisions: Peptide Dissociation and Dependence of Reactions on Orientation of Surface Chains
  • 9:30 -10:30 Poster Session I, con'd

Monday. February 24

  • 7:30 - 8:30 Breakfast

Morning Session: Organic Mechanisms

  • 8:45 - 9:00 Discussion Leader: Helmut Schwarz, Technical University of Berlin
  • 9:00 - 10:00 Chuck DePuy, University of Colorado at Boulder - Gas-Phase Electrophilic Substitution: CH3+ vs. Bad+
  • 10:00 - 10:20 Break
  • 10:20 - 11:20 John Holmes, University of Ottawa-Carleton - Ion Structure Assignment; Certainty and Speculation
  • 11:20 - 12:20 Hans Grutzmacher, University of Bielefeid - Some Aspects of the Bimolecular Reactivity of Unsaturated Organic Radical Cations
  • 12:30- 1:30 Lunch
  • 4:30 - 6:00 Poster Session II
  • 6:00 - 7:00 Dinner

Evening Session: Atmospheric Chemistry/New Faces

  • 7:15 - 7:30 Discussion Leader: Carl Howard, NOAA
  • 7:30 - 8:30 Greg Huey, NOAA - Ion Chemistry for the Selective Detection of HNO, and Other Important Atmospheric Species
  • 8:30 - 9:30 Kim Prather, University of California at Riverside - Real-Time Analysis of Atmospheric Aerosols
  • 9:30 - 10:30 Poster Session II, con'd

Tuesday. February 25

  • 7:30 - 8:30 Breakfast

Morning Session: Reaction Dvnamics

  • 8:45 - 9:00 Discussion Leader: Doug Ridge, University of Delaware
  • 9:00 - 10:00 Chava Lifshitz, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Time-Resolved Studies of PAHs and Fullerenes
  • 10:00 - 10:20 Break
  • 10:20 - 11:20 Rob Dunbar, Case Western Reserve University - Binding Metal Ions to Planar 1r-Systems
  • 11:20 - 12:20 Seung-Koo Shin, University of California at Santa Barbara - Time- and Product-Resolved Photodissociation of Toluene and Halotoluene Radical Cations
  • 12:30- 1:30 Lunch
  • 4:30 - 6:00 Poster Session III
  • 6:00 - 7:00 Dinner

Evening Session: Theory

  • 7:15 - 7:30 Discussion Leader: Scott Gronert, San Francisco State University
  • 7:30 - 8:30 Bill Hase, Wayne State University - Trajectory Studies of Energy Transfer in the Reaction and Dissociation of Gaseous Ions
  • 8:30 - 9:30 Wes Borden, University of Washington - Gas-Phase Ion Chemistry as a Tool for Investigating Organic Molecules of Theoretical Interest -- The Synergy between Calculations and Experiments
  • 9:30 - 10:30 . -Poster Session III, con'd

Wednesday. February 26

  • 7:30 - 8:30 Breakfast

Morning Session: Biological/Electrospray Ionization

  • 8:45 - 9:00 Discussion Leader: Julie Leary, University of California at Berkeley
  • 9:00 - 10:00 Scott McLuckey, Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Gas-Phase Bio-Ion /Ion Chemistry in the Paul Trap
  • 10:00- 10:20 Break
  • 10:20 - 11:20 Evan Williams, University of California at Berkeley - Blackbody Infrared Radiative Dissociation of Large Biomolecule Ions: A Route to Energetics and Dynamics
  • 11:20 - 12:20 Mike Bowers, University of California at Santa Barbara - Conformations of Biologically Interesting Molecules in the Gas Phase: The Latest News
  • 12:30- 1:30 Lunch
  • 1:30 - 2:00 Business Meeting to Select New Vice-Chair
  • 4:30 - 6:00 Poster Session IV
  • 6:00 - 7:00 Dinner

Evening Session: Molecular Clusters

  • 7:15 - 7:30 Discussion Leader: Will Castleman, Pennsylvania State University
  • 7:30 - 8:30 Michael Mautner, NIST & University of New Zealand - Multi-body Cooperative Processes: New Reactions Observed in ionic Polymerization
  • 8:30 - 9:30 Al Viggiano, Phillips Laboratory - Thermal Energy Reactions of Cluster Ions
  • 9:30 - 10:30 Poster Session IV, con'd

Thursday. February 27

  • 7:30 - 8:30 Breakfast

Morning Session: Spectroscopy/Threshold Ionization

  • 8:45 - 9:00 Discussion Leader: Mark Johnson, Yale University
  • 9:00 - 10:00 Carl Lineberger, JILA/University of Colorado at Boulder - Time-Resolved Dynamics in Large Cluster Ions
  • 10:00 - 10:20 Break
  • 10:20 - 11:20 Ed Grant, Purdue University - State-to-State Dynamics of Polyatomic Photoionization
  • 11:20 - 12:20 Klaus Muller-Dethlefs, University of York - Structure and Dynamics of Molecular Ions and Clusters Studied by ZERO Spectroscopy
  • 12:30: - 1:30 Lunch
  • 6:00 - 7:30 Conference Banquet

Evening Session: Featured Speaker

  • 7:30 - 7:40 Introduction: Bob Squires
  • 7:40 - 8:40 Eldon Ferguson, NOAA - Flowing Afterglow Studies of Ion-Molecule Reactions, 1964-1996
  • 9:00 - 12:00 Social with Live Music

Friday. February 28

  • departure

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