eprintid: 9070
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datestamp: 2011-11-10 19:59:16
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type: thesis_degree
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contact_email: phm7@pitt.edu
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creators_name: Morgan, Philip John
creators_email: phm7@pitt.edu
creators_id: PHM7
title: Spectroscopy of Large Molecules in the Gas Phase
ispublished: unpub
divisions: sch_as_chemistry
full_text_status: public
keywords:  2ABN; 2PP; 3ABN; 4-methylanisole; 4MA; 9-fluorenemethanol; 9FM; ABN; barrier height; Hamiltonian; hexahydropyrene; HHP; m-toluidine; methyl internal rotation; o-toluidine; PABA; para-aminobenzoic acid; para-coumaric acid; pCA; potential barrier height; pyridyl pyrrole; rigid rotor; rotationally resolved; vibrationally resolved; kraitchman analysis; laser induced fluorescence
abstract: David W. Pratt, PhDSPECTROSCOPY OF LARGE MOLECULES IN THE GAS PHASEPhilip John Morgan, Ph.D.University of Pittsburgh, 2010AbstractStructural and dynamical properties of molecular systems in both the ground and excited electronic states can be studied using rotationally resolved electronic spectroscopy in the gas phase. Analyses based on the collected experimental measurements and their spectral details supplemented by ab initio calculations provide the structural and dynamical information. In this work, relatively large molecules are studied, leading to conformational assignments of several molecules, the potential barriers for hindered methyl group torsional motion, the identity of different possible van der Waals complexes, evidence of excited state intramolecular proton transfer, and the determination of the ground and excited state dipole moments of several molecules.
date: 2010-09-30
date_type: completed
institution: University of Pittsburgh
refereed: TRUE
etdcommittee_name: Pratt, David W
etdcommittee_name: Waldeck, David H
etdcommittee_name: Chong, Lillian T
etdcommittee_name: Leuba, Sanford H
etdcommittee_email: pratt@pitt.edu
etdcommittee_email: dave@pitt.edu
etdcommittee_email: ltchong@pitt.edu
etdcommittee_email: leuba@pitt.edu
etdcommittee_id: PRATT
etdcommittee_id: DAVE
etdcommittee_id: LTCHONG
etdcommittee_id: LEUBA
etd_defense_date: 2010-08-17
etd_approval_date: 2010-09-30
etd_submission_date: 2010-08-12
etd_access_restriction: immediate
etd_patent_pending: FALSE
assigned_doi: doi:10.5195/pitt.etd.2011.9070
thesis_type: dissertation
degree: PhD
committee: David W. Pratt (pratt@pitt.edu) - Committee Chair
committee: David H. Waldeck (dave@pitt.edu) - Committee Member
committee: Lillian T. Chong (ltchong@pitt.edu) - Committee Member
committee: Sanford H. Leuba (leuba@pitt.edu) - Committee Member
etdurn: etd-08122010-142550
other_id: http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-08122010-142550/
other_id: etd-08122010-142550
citation:   Morgan, Philip John  (2010) Spectroscopy of Large Molecules in the Gas Phase.  Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.    (Unpublished)  
document_url: http://d-scholarship-dev.library.pitt.edu/9070/1/PhilipJohnMorganAugust172010ETDThesis.pdf