15th International Symposium on Gas Kinetics
September 6-10, 1998
Universidad del País Vasco
Bilbao, Spain

ABSTRACTS

Polanyi Lecture

A.R. Ravishankara
"Gas Kinetics and Atmospheric Chemistry: A Tango with Two Leaders"

Plenary Lectures

T. G. Slanger
"The Atmosphere as Laboratory: Astronomical Nightglow Observations, and Laboratory Measurements on the O2 (a1Deltag, b1Sigma+g) States" (page 2)

M. I. Lester
"Spectroscopy and Reaction Dynamics of Hydroxyl Radicals in Encounters with Molecular Hydrogen" (page 2)

K. Liu
"Elementary Reaction: Synergy between Dynamics and Kinetics"

G. Hancock
"Laser Measurements of Kinetics in Gas Phase Plasmas" (page 2)

D. A. King
"Steering, Screening, Thermal Displacement and Vibrational Effects in the Dynamics of Dissociative Adsorption: H2, O2 and CH4 on Pt Surfaces" (page 2)

M.C. Lin
"Recent Progress in Studies of Elementary Reactions Important to NH3, DeNOx and Soot Formation Processes"

P. Ewart

"Laser Spectroscopy of Radical Species in Hostile Environments" (page 2)

M. H. Alexander
"Non-Adiabatic Effects in Chemical Reaction Dynamics"

Oral Communications

R. J. Donovan
"Photodissociation of Ozone between 335 and 352 nm: Direct Detection of the O2 (b1Sigma+g) Spin-Forbiden Fragment"

V. Catoire
"Kinetic Study of the CO3- + HNO3 Reaction. Application to the Detection of HNO3 in the Stratosphere" (page 2)

D. E. Heard
"Insights into Tropospheric Oxidation Chemistry from in situ Measurements of the Hydroxyl Radical" (page 2)

B. J. Klotz
"Kinetic Study of the Photolysis and OH- and NO3- Radical Reactions of Arene Oxides" (page 2)

H. Hein
"The Reactions of C4- and C5-Alcoxy Radicals in the Troposphere: Kinetics, Mechanism and Ozone Formation Potential" (page 2)(page 3)

T. Wallington
"The Atmospheric Chemistry of Acetyl Peroxy Radicals: Kinetics and Mechanism of their Reactions with NO, NO2, and HO2 radicals"

J. M. Nicovich
"Bromine Nitrate Photochemistry and Reaction Kinetics" (page 2)

M. K. Gilles
"Measurements of the Rate Coefficients of ClO and BrO with OH: Rate Constants and Atmospheric Implications" (page 2)

T. Beiderhase
"Rate Constants for the Reactions HO2 + ClO and HO2 + IO" (page 2)

L. Orkin
"Measurements of the Rate Constants for the Slow Gas Phase Reactions of Hydroxyl Radicals with Halocarbons" (page 2)

J.A. Fernández
"Solvation of Cyclopentadienyl and Substituted Cyclopentadienyl Radicals in Small Clusters: form Non-Polar Solvents to Pre-Reactive Clusters"

P. Barnes
"Rate Coefficients for the Reaction and Relaxation of Vibrationally Excited H2O(|04^-) and H2O(|13^-) with H atoms and H2O"

G. Lendvay
"Reactive and Inelastic Collisions of H Atoms with Vibrationally Excited Water Molecules"

A. V. Baklanov
"Time-resolved k(E*) Measurements for Dissociation of Aallyl Iodide Vibrationally Excited Via C-H Overtones (v=6)." (page 2)

J. Rebstein
"Direct Measurement of Eigenstate-Resolved Unimolecular Dissociation Rates of HOCl" (page 2)

V. J. Herreo

"A Quasi-Classical Trajectory Study of the O(1D)+H2/D2 Reactions: Cross Sections and Rate Constants"

H. T. Liou
"The Spectroscopy and Dynamics of CS2 Studied by Lambda-type Excitation" (page 2)

L. Vereecken
"A Program Suitable for Fast Master Equation Analysis of Chemically Activated Unimolecular Reactions"

J. C. Whitehead
"The Removal of Volatile Organic Compounds from Polluted Air using Non-Thermal Atmospheric Pressure Plasmas" (page 2)

L. N. Krasnoperov
"Destruction of NO and NO2 in Air and Nitrogen in Dielectric Barrier Corona Discharge" (page 2)

F. Streibel
"On the Role of Stable Adducts in the Reaction OH+NH3 ==> products" (page 2)

R. A. Eng
"Shock Tube Study on the Branching Ratio in the Thermal Unimolecular Decomposition of Methyl Radicals" (page 2)

A. B. Horn
"ATR infrared spectroscopy studies of atmospheric particle mimics"

R. A. Cox
"Kinetics of the Heterogeneous Reaction of HNO3 with NaCl: Effect of Water Vapour" (page 2)

M.T. Leu
"Nitric Acid Uptake and Decomposition on Black Carbon (Soot) Surfaces: Its Implications for the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere" (page 2)

C. A. Taatjes
"Time-resolved Infrared Frequency Modulation Probing of Product Formation in Cl+C3H4 and C2H5+O2 Reactions"

S. Cheskis
"Ultrasensitive Absorption Spectroscopy Studies of Radical Reactions in Flames" (page 2)

G. Dorthe

"Product Branching of the Reactions CH+NO, CH+CH, CH+O2, and C2+NO" (page 2)

N. Washida
"Laser-Induced Fluorescence of Methyl Substituted Vinoxy Radicals and Reactions of Oxygen Atoms with Olefins" (page 2)

Y. P. Lee
"Application of Step-Scan Fourier-Transform Spectroscopy to Gas Kinetics" (page 2)

M. L. Campbell
"Reactions of Gas Phase Transition Metal Atoms"

A. A. Buchachenko
"Ab initio Based study of the Cl(2P1/2) Quenching by Rare Gases" (page 2)

K. G. McKendrick
"Polarisation Effects in Electronically Inelastic Collisions" (page 2)

M. R. Levy
"Chemiluminiscence and Rotational Alignment in the Reaction of Mn Atoms with CH3NO2" (page 2)

D. M. Wardlaw
"Rate Constant Calculations for Barrierless Reactions: I. Surveying the Effect of Optimizing the Reaction Coordinate Definition" (page 2)

I. Oref
"From Potential Surfaces to Master Equation Calculations: A Novel Method for Calculating P(E',E) from Trajectory Calculations" (page 2)

G. Thurau
"The Role of Rotational Energy on the Unimolecular Dissociation of Ketene"


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