Energetics of Stable Molecules and Reactive Intermediates

1. Experimental Methods to Derive Bond Energy Data. A Schematic Overview.- 2. Oxygen Bomb Combustion Calorimetry: Principles and Applications to Organic and Organometallic Compounds.- 3. The Nuts and Bolts and Results of Fluorine Bomb Calorimetry.- 4. Titration Calorimetry for the Determination of Basicities of Transition Metal Complexes.- 5. Photocalorimetry. Methods and Applications.- 6. Photoacoustic Calorimetry; The Determination of Bond Dissociation Enthalpies in Solution and in the Gas Phase.- 7. Energetics of Transition Metal-X Bonding Probed by Electrochemical Techniques.- 8. A Protocol for Deriving Values for ?fusHm(298.15 K) and ?vapHm(298.15 K). Applications in Obtaining ?subHm(298.15 K).- 9. Measurements of Enthalpies of Sublimation: The Importance of Correlating Thermodynamic Data Obtained from Indirect Methods.- 10. Applications of Transient Infrared Spectroscopy to Coordinatively Unsaturated Metal Carbonyls.- 11. Energetics and Structures of Gas Phase Ions : Macromolecules, Clusters and Ligated Transition Metals.- 12. High Presure Mass Spectrometry. Instrumentation, Techniques and Applications.- 13. FT ICR. Basic Principles and Some Representative Applications.- 14. The Role of Ion Dissociation Dynamics in the Study of Ion and Neutral Thermochemistry.- 15. Shock Tube Studies on the Stability of Polyatomic Molecules and the Determination of Bond Energies.- 16. Extracting Thermochemical Information from AB Initio Data.- 17. AB Initio Thermochemistry Beyond Chemical Accuracy for First- and Second-Row Compounds.- 18. Heats of Formation by Density Functional Theory Calculations.- List of Participants.