Pure rotational spectra of a prototypical prochiral ester, methyl benzoylformate (MBF), and the product of its enantioselective reduction, (R)-(-)-methyl mandelate (MM), were measured in the range of 5-16 GHz, using a cavity-based molecular beam Fourier-transform microwave spectrometer. Potential conformers were located using density functional theory calculations, and one conformer of each spe...

Intraventricular adrenal medulla grafts were found to produce dissociable effects on rotational behavior induced by amphetamine and apomorphine in rats with unilateral striatal dopamine depletions. Some animals showed a decrease in the behavioral response to apomorphine, some showed a decrease to amphetamine, and some showed a decrease to both amphetamine and apomorphine. Using in uiuo microdia...

Fluorescence excitation spectra, at resolution 0.02 cm, in the system à A92X̃ A8 were recorded for acetaldehyde in a supersonic jet. We performed full rotational analysis of bands 140 150 n and 140 150 n , for n50 – 4, in which 14 and 14 denote the two inversion tunneling components of the aldehyde hydrogen out of plane bending, in the vibrational ground state of à A9. Torsional levels from near...

Repeated restenotic events are common in superficial femoral artery and as of late, Viabahn stent grafts have been FDA (U.S. Food & Drug Administration) approved. Viabahn have been particularly attractive given that they provided a physical barrier for the development of neointimal hyperplasia. This particular feature however, also underscores one of the main limitations of the therapy; providi...

Using microwave detected, microwave-optical double resonance, we have measured the homogeneous linewidths of individual rovibrational transitions in the à state of NH3 , NH2D, NHD2 , and ND3 . We have used this excited state spectroscopic data to characterize the height of the dissociation barrier and the mechanisms by which the molecule uses its excess vibrational and rotational energies to he...

X-ray diffraction experiments are employed to determine the molecular and crystal structure of 3-isopropylchrysene. Based on this structure, electronic structure calculations are employed to calculate methyl group and isopropyl group rotational barriers in a central molecule of a ten-molecule cluster. The two slightly inequivalent methyl group barriers are found to be 12 and 15 kJ mol(-1) and t...

Using microwave detected, microwave-optical double resonance, we have measured the homogeneous linewidths of individual rovibrational transitions in the à state of NH3, NH2D, NHD2, and ND3. We have used this excited state spectroscopic data to characterize the height of the dissociation barrier and the mechanisms by which the molecule uses its excess vibrational and rotational energies to help ...

Rigorous calculations of scattering resonances in ozone are carried out for a broad range of rotational excitations. The accurate potential energy surface of Dawes is adopted, and a new efficient method for calculations of ro-vibrational energies, wave functions and resonance lifetimes is employed (which uses hyper-spherical coordinates, the sequential diagonalization/truncation approach, grid ...

In his comment on [1], V. J. Stepanov has presented a new expression for the flow-induced correction to the one-particle distribution function in nematic liquid crystals. With the help of this solution he obtained a simple expression for the rotational viscosity yx which does not possess the exponential temperature dependence related to the overcoming a potential barrier, contrary to results of...

At JET the dynamics of Internal Transport Barriers (ITBs) has been explored by trying to decouple the effects of heating on one hand and torque on the other with the ultimate objective of identifying the minimum torque required for the formation of transport barriers. The experiments shed light on the physics behind the initial trigger for ITBs, which often shows to be linked to the shape of th...