Editor's In-Basket - Chemistry - Memorial University of Newfoundland

Dear Colleagues,
Matrix Isolation Digest by Electronic Mail
A free electronic publication sent out on behalf of the
international matrix isolation community.
Friday, December 1, 2006
First I would like to introduce myself. My name is Travis Fridgen and I am
Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Memorial University of Newfoundland in
Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. I started receiving MIDE immediately after the
1995 Gordon Conference in Plymouth, NH which I attended as a graduate student with
Mark Parnis. In my experience Werner’s newsletter has been an invaluable resource in
keeping me up to date with happenings in the matrix isolation community worldwide
since its inception in 1991. Werner’s “Editor’s In-Basket” has been priceless in
compiling the most recent publications from edition to edition. I don’t think that I am
alone in missing this valuable source of information recently, especially since there are
currently well over 350 subscribers to MIDE.
I am currently setting up labs to spectroscopically probe ions and solvated ions in
both the gas and matrix isolated phases. As such, I wanted to ensure that MIDE
continues. In consultation with Werner and a few others in the matrix community I
decided to set up a website which is dedicated to the matrix isolation community
(http://www.chem.mun.ca/mi/) and to continue MIDE. I would like to thank Marilyn
Jacox for the idea and content for the title webpage. I would also like to invite everyone
to explore the website and submit comments and ideas for the website as I consider it to
be a work in progress. The more ideas the better it can serve you. There is a “Contact”
tab which you can use to make suggestions. Also, there is a tab containing a list of
researchers in the matrix isolation community which you can sort by name, institution or
country. Please ensure that your webpage is listed. If it isn’t there and you would like it
linked, please go to the Contact tab and submit your information and I will add it as soon
as possible. As well, if any of your students or colleagues would like to receive the
MIDE newsletter please use the Contact tab and I will add them to the list for the next
mailing.
The Editor’s In-Basket will continue and follows in this edition for publications
that appeared roughly in the month of October and early November. I will admit it is
very likely not complete and is mainly to serve as an example of what the In-Basket will
look like. I plan to put out the newsletter roughly monthly and include any news that has
been submitted by you. The In-Basket will only include publications which have been
submitted, by you! To submit the reference to your paper here is a link on the main
webpage “MIDE Submissions” which will allow you to submit, preferably, the “digital
object identifier” (DOI) for the paper which will allow people to simply click the link and
be connected to your paper directly from the MIDE newsletter. Alternatively, you can
submit the full details of the reference but I cannot promise to have time to find the DOI
information so there may not be a live link to your paper unless you submit the DOI. I
will archive all new editions of MIDE on the webpage in both .pdf and .htm format.
There will also be a link to all of the previous editions of MIDE.
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I hope that you enjoy the webpage and new format of MIDE. Again, I strongly
urge you to submit any ideas you have, submit any news you want published (jobs offers,
tips, etc.) in the next issue, and of course submit the references to your papers for the
Editor’s In-Basket because
Sincerely Yours
Travis D. Fridgen
A Message from Werner
Dear Colleagues,
“If news about YOUR research is missing -
it is because YOU did not submit it”
I have been taking care of MIDE for close to 15 years, and you all have noticed
that I have found less and less time for it. Not that I have left the field, but new duties
required a shifting of priorities. MIDE has been a source of information for many of us,
has spread the news about conferences, job opportunities and our activities - it is dearly
needed. And I was sad that I am no longer able to provide the kind of service I would
appreciate myself. Thus I am glad, delighted and thankful that Travis has volunteered to
pick up the torch and will provide a new and improved version of MIDE - including
setting up a website. Please let us all assist him by sending in our references and news.
There is an unsent pile of references of matrix work covering the last two years in my
computer. I will sort the data over the Christmas break and mail it to Travis for
dissemination.
With my best wishes to all of you,
Werner Klotzbücher
Upcoming Conferences
Gordon Conference on the Physics and Chemistry of Matrix Isolated Species
July 15-20, 2007, Bates College, Lewiston, ME
http://www.grc.org/programs/2007/matriso.htm
Gordon Conference on Gaseous Ions: Structures, Energetics and Reactions
February 25-March 2, 2007, Ventura Beach Marriott, Ventura, CA
http://www.grc.org/programs/2007/gaseous.htm
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Editor’s In-Basket
The search for these papers was done on November 20 th and I tried to limit it to the
beginning of October until November 20 th . It is likely that this list is not complete. If
your work from this period does not show up here please submit it through the website
and I will include it in the next issue of MIDE. I would like to suggest a deadline of
December 20 th , 2006 for the next issue of MIDE which could be sent in the beginning of
January. If you happen to miss a deadline which I will post in every MIDE issue, then
simply submit it for the issue following. This is a pretty informal publication.
“Infrared Spectra of the M(NO)n (M = Sn, Pb; n = 1, 2) and PbNO- Molecules”
Qiang Xu and Ling Jiang
Inorg. Chem.; 2006; 45(21) pp 8648 – 8654;
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ic061105r
“UV Photolysis Products of Propiolic Acid in Noble-Gas Solids”
Esa Isoniemi, Leonid Khriachtchev, Maarit Makkonen, and Markku Räsänen
J. Phys. Chem. A; 2006; 110(40) pp 11479 – 11487;
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp062080k
“Infrared Spectra of the (AgCO)2 and AgnCO (n = 2-4) Molecules in Rare-Gas Matrices”
Ling Jiang and Qiang Xu
J. Phys. Chem. A; 2006; 110(40) pp 11488 – 11493;
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp064129s
“Vibrational Spectra and Structures of H2O-NO, HDO-NO, and D2O-NO Complexes. An IR Matrix
Isolation and DFT Study”
Nadia Dozova, Lahouari Krim, M. Esmaïl Alikhani, and Nelly Lacome
J. Phys. Chem. A; 2006; 110(41) pp 11617 – 11626;
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp0625614
“Comparisons of Photoinduced Oxidative Addition of B-H, B-B, and Si-H Bonds at Rhodium (5cuclopentadienyl)phosphine
Centers”
Marius V. Câmpian, Jeremy L. Harris, Naser Jasim, Robin N. Perutz, Todd B. Marder, and Adrian C.
Whitwood
Organometallics; 2006; 25(21) pp 5093 - 5104;
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/om060500m
“Counterpoise corrected geometries of hydrated complexes”
Anna L. Garden et al.,
J. Chem. Phys.; 2006; 125 (14), 144317;
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2357932
“Trapping evidence for the thermal cyclization of di-(o-acetylphenyl)acetylene to 3,3'-dimethyl-1,1'biisobenzofuran”
Charles P Casey, Neil A Strotman, Ilia A Guzei
Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry; 2005; 1:18 (9 December 2005)
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1860-5397-1-18
“Intrinsic Dinitrogen Activation at Bare Metal Atoms”
Hans-Jörg Himmel, Markus Reiher
Angewandte Chemie-International Edition; 2006; 45(38) pp 6264-6288;
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.200502892
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“Intra- vs. intermolecular hydrogen bonding: dimers of alpha-hydroxyesters with methanol”
Nicole Borho, Martin A. Suhm, Katia Le Barbu-Debus and Anne Zehnacker
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.; 2006; 8(38) pp 4449-4460;
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b609725a
“Molecular Structure, Infrared Spectrum, and Photochemistry of Squaric Acid Dimethyl Ester in Solid
Argon”
S. Breda, I. Reva, L. Lapinski, and R. Fausto
Journal of Physical Chemistry A; 2006; 110(38) pp 11034 - 11045;
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp0632485
“Ab initio description of the ground and excited states of cyanogen isomers”
Rajat K. Chaudhuri, S.L.N.G. Krishnamachari and Karl F. Freed
Journal of Molecular Structure-Theochem; 2006; 768(1-3) pp 119-126;
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.theochem.2006.05.019
“Hydrogen bonding of radicals: Interaction of dimethyl ether with HOO, HOOH, and HOO−”
Mohammad Solimannejad and Steve Scheiner
Chemical Physics Letters; 2006; 429(1-3) pp 38-42;
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cplett.2006.08.042
“UV-induced photochemistry of methyl coumalate (methyl 2-pyrone-5-carboxylate) isolated in lowtemperature
inert matrices”
I.D. Reva, M.J. Nowak, L. Lapinski and R. Fausto
Chemical Physics Letters; 2006; 429(4-6) pp 382-388;
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cplett.2006.08.061
“A density functional study on iodine dioxide–water complexes”
Weigang Wang, Maofa Ge and Dianxun Wang
Chemical Physics; 2006; 328(1-3) pp 165-172;
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemphys.2006.06.034
“Photochromism and polarization spectroscopy of p-methyl(thiobenzoyl)acetone” Alexander Gorski,
Yevgen Posokhov, Bjarke K.V. Hansen, Jens Spanget-Larsen, Jan Jasny, Fritz Duus, Poul Erik Hansen and
Jacek Waluk
Chemical Physics; 2006; 328(1-3) pp205-215;
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemphys.2006.06.033
“Density functional study on the ClCO + NO2 reaction”
A. Lesar, M. Bončina and M. Hodošček
Chemical Physics; 2006; 328(1-3) pp 363-370;
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemphys.2006.07.026
“Infrared spectra and structure of water clusters trapped in argon and krypton matrices”
Shinichi Hirabayashi and Koichi M.T. Yamada
Journal of Molecular Structure; 2006; 795(1-3) pp 78-83;
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2006.02.019
“Thiol-thione tautomerism in 2-pyridinethione: Effect of hydration”
Aiping Fu, Hongliang Li and Dongmei Du
Journal of Molecular Structure-Theochem; 2006; 767(1-3) pp 51-60;
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.theochem.2006.04.025
“A study of interaction between hydrogen peroxide and silica gel by FTIR spectroscopy and quantum
chemistry”
Jacek Żeglin´ski, Grzegorz P. Piotrowski and Ryszard Piękos´
Journal of Molecular Structure; 2006; 794(1-3) pp 83-91;
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2006.01.043
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“Conformational cooling and conformation selective aggregation in dimethyl sulfite isolated in solid rare
gases”
Ana Borba, Andrea Gómez-Zavaglia and Rui Fausto
Journal of Molecular Structure; 2006; 794(1-3) 196-203;
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2006.02.005
“Trimers and tetramers of MH and MH3 (M = Al, Ga): Theoretical study”
Jerzy Moc, Karolina Bober and Krzysztof Mierzwicki
Chemical Physics; 2006; 327(2-3) pp 247-260;
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemphys.2006.04.015
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fixed immediately (http://www.chem.mun.ca/mi/mide.php). I will also post any
problems that have not been rectified in the next issue of MIDE.
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