Conference Program
 
Gaseous Ions: Structures, Energetics & Reactions

February 25 - March 2, 2001
Ventura Beach Marriott
Ventura, CA

Chair:
Peter Armentrout

Vice Chair:
Terrance B. McMahon
Sunday, February 25
EVENING
2:00 - 9:00 PMArrival and Registration
4:30 - 6:00 PMReception
6:00 - 7:00 PMDinner
Sunday, February 25
EVENING SESSION I		IONS IN NANODROPLETS
7:30 - 7:45 PMIntroduction: Evan Williams, University of California, Berkeley
7:45 - 8:25 PMGereon Niedner-Schatteburg, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
"Condensed Gas Phase Ion Chemistry"
8:25 - 8:40 PMDiscussion
8:40 - 9:20 PMJack Beauchamp, Caltech
"The Physics and Chemistry of Highly Charged Nanodroplets"
9:20 - 9:35 PMDiscussion
9:45 - 11:00 PMPoster Session I
Monday, February 26
MORNING SESSION		ORGANOMETALLIC ION CHEMISTRY
7:30 - 8:30 AMBreakfast
8:55 - 9:10 AMIntroduction: Karl Irikura, Nat. Inst. Stand. Tech.
9:10 - 9:50 AMDoreen Leopold, University of Minnesota
"Vibrationally Resolved Negative Ion Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Small Metal Clusters"
9:50 - 10:05 AMDiscussion
10:05 - 10:45 AMAtsushi Nakajima, Keio University, Japan
"Pseudo-Electronic Band Formation of d- and f- Electrons in One-Dimensional Organometallic Complexes"
10:45 - 11:00 AMDiscussion
11:00 - 11:30 AMConference photo and Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:10 PMJim Weisshaar, University of Wisconsin
"Reactions of Transition Metal Atoms with Alkanes and Alkenes: A Critical Comparison between Experiment and Theory"
12:10 - 12:25 PMDiscussion
12:30 - 1:30 PMLunch
1:30 - 4:00 PMFree time
4:30 - 6:00 PMPoster Session I (continued)
6:00 PMDinner
Monday, February 26
EVENING SESSION 		ENVIRONMENT AND AEROSOLS
7:30 - 7:45 PM Introduction: Al Viggiano, Hanscom Air Force Base
7:45 - 8:25 PMDaniel Murphy, NOAA Aeronomy Laboratory
"Mass Spectrometer Measurements of the Composition of Single Atmospheric Particles"
8:25 - 8:40 PMDiscussion
8:40 - 9:20 PMTom Baer, University of North Carolina
"The Chemistry and Analysis of Single Aerosol Particles by Laser TOF Mass spectrometry"
9:20 - 9:35 PMDiscussion
9:45 - 11:00 PM Poster Session II
Tuesday, February 27
MORNING SESSION		 ANALYTICAL MASS SPECTROMETRY
7:30 - 8:30 AM Breakfast
9:00 - 9:15 AMIntroduction: -Session Chair: Veronica Bierbaum, University of Colorado
9:15 - 9:55 AMAlan Marshall, Florida State University
"Advantages of Analyzing Condensed-Phase Mixtures as Gaseous Ions"
9:55 - 10:10 AMDiscussion
10:10 - 10:40 AMCoffee Break
10:40 - 11:20 AMJulie Leary, University of California, Berkeley
"Conformational and Molecular Orbital Considerations of Diastereomeric Metal-Ligated Saccharides"
11:20 - 11:35 AMDiscussion
11:35 - 12:15 PMMichael Gross, Washington University
"Cancer Research and Mass Spectrometry: From Trace Determination of Small Adducts to Understanding DNA Interactions"
12:15 - 12:30 PMDiscussion
12:30 - 1:30 PMLunch
1:30 - 4:00 PMFree time
4:30 - 6:00 PMPoster Session II (continued)
6:00 PMDinner
Tuesday, February 27
EVENING SESSION		CLUSTERS
7:30 - 7:45 PM Introduction: Will Castleman, Penn State University
7:45 - 8:25 PMKent Ervin, University of Nevada, Reno
"Competitive Decomposition Processes in Metal Cluster Anions: Photoactivation vs. Collisional Activation"
8:25 - 8:40 PMDiscussion
8:40 - 9:20 PMLai-Sheng Wang, Washington State University
"Photodetachment Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Gaseous Multiply Charged Anions and Clusters"
9:20 - 9:35 PMDiscussion
9:45 - 11:00 PM Poster Session III
Wednesday, February 28
MORNING SESSION		ORGANIC IONS
7:30 - 8:30 AMBreakfast
9:00 - 9:15 AMIntroduction: -Session Chair: Tom Morton, U. California, Riverside
9:15 - 9:55 AMFrank Turecek, University of Washington
"Transient Intermediates of Chemical Reactions: From Ions to Radicals"
9:55 - 10:10 AMDiscussion
10:10 - 10:40 AMCoffee Break
10:40 - 11:20 AMRichard O'Hair, University of Melbourne, Australia
"From Catalytic Cycles to the Role of Salt Bridges in Peptide Reactions: Adventures with an Ion Trap."
11:20 - 11:35 AMDiscussion
11:35 - 12:15 PMEinar Uggerud, University of Oslo, Norway
"A New Paradigm for Nucleophilic Substitution"
12:15 - 12:30 PMDiscussion
12:30 - 1:30 PMLunch
1:30 - 4:00 PMFree time
4:30 - 6:00 PMPoster Session III(continued)
6:00 PMDinner
Wednesday, February 28
EVENING SESSION		NONCOVALENT ION INTERACTIONS
7:30 - 7:45 PMIntroduction: Session Chair: Christoph Schalley, U. of Bonn, Germany
7:45 - 8:25 PMGilles Ohanessian, Ecole Polytechnique, France
"Desolvation vs Isomerization of Electrosprayed Zinc Complexes"
8:25 - 8:40 PMDiscussion
8:40 - 9:20 PMMary T. Rodgers, Wayne State University
"Towards an Understanding of Metal Ion-DNA Interactions"
9:20 - 9:35 PMDiscussion
9:45 - 11:00 PM Poster Session IV
Thursday, February 29
MORNING SESSION		ION SPECTROSCOPY
7:30 - 8:30 AMBreakfast
9:00 - 9:15 AMIntroduction: Session Chair: Mike Duncan, University of Georgia
9:15 - 9:55 AMBenoit Simard, National Research Council, Canada
"Photoionization Spectroscopy of Metal Containing Molecules and Highly Reactive Cations"
9:55 - 10:10 AMDiscussion
10:10 - 10:40 AMCoffee Break
10:40 - 11:20Mattanjah S. de Vries, University of California, Santa Barbara
"Gas Phase Spectroscopy of Life's Building Blocks"
11:20 - 11:35 AMDiscussion
11:35 - 12:15 PMBernd Brutschy, University of Frankfurt, Germany
"Microsolvated Small Ions and Solvated Macromolecular Ions Studied wit Laser Mass Spectrometry"
12:15 - 12:30 PMDiscussion
12:30 - 1:30 PMLunch
1:30 - 4:00 PMFree time
4:30 - 6:00 PMPoster Session IV (continued)
6:00 PMDinner
Thursday, February 29
EVENING SESSION
7:45 PMIntroduction: Session Chair: Peter B. Armentrout, University of Utah
8:00 PMHelmut Schwarz, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
"Bond Activation by ´Naked´ Metal Ions: Enzyme-related Gas-phase Ion Chemistry without Enzymes"
9:00 PMParty

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