Low Temperature Molecular Spectroscopy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Spectroscopy of Matrix Isolated Molecules. 1. Principles, Procedures and Pitfalls

   • A. J. Downs

   Pages 1-43

3. Spectroscopy of Matrix Isolated Molecules. 2. Applications: Pointing the way to Synthesis and Mechanisms in Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry

   • A. J. Downs

   Pages 45-93

4. Matrix Photochemistry Of Transition Metal Complexes: Principles, Applications and Links to Other Methods

   • Robin N. Perutz

   Pages 95-124

5. Conformational isomerism and photodecomposition of carboxylic compounds studied by matrix isolation infrared spectroscopy

   • Rui Fausto

   Pages 125-146

6. Combined Matrix-Isolation FT-IR and AB Initio 6-31 + + G** Studies on the Tautomerism and H-bonding Properties of Nucleic Acid Bases and Simpler Model Molecules

   • G. H. Maes, J. Smets, L. Adamowicz

   Pages 147-167

7. Low temperature spectroscopy: From ground to space

   • Farid Salama

   Pages 169-191

8. Association Between Electron Donor Molecules and HCl in Argon Matrices

   • William O. George, D. Alun Williams

   Pages 193-204

9. Matrix Perturbation of Vibrational Isotope Effects

   • Richard L. Redington

   Pages 205-225

10. Heavy Atom Effects in Proton Tunneling Phenomena

    • Richard L. Redington

    Pages 227-248

11. The Cooling Of Internal Degrees Of Freedom Of Polyatomic Molecules in Supersonic Free Jets

    • R. Jost

    Pages 249-270

12. Pulsed Nozzle Fourier Transform Microwave Spectroscopy Of Weakly Bound Molecular Complexes

    • Alfred Bauder

    Pages 271-289

13. Structure and Dynamics Of Van der Waals Complexes

    • Alfred Bauder

    Pages 291-309

14. Large Amplitude Vibrations in Electronic Spectra in Supersonic Jets

    • J. M. Hollas

    Pages 311-350

15. Conformational Analysis by Laser Spectroscopy

    • David W. Pratt

    Pages 351-369

16. Infrared Spectroscopy in Liquefied Noble Gases

    • B. J. Van der Veken

    Pages 371-420

17. Tunneling Spectroscopy with neutrons

    • J. Tomkinson

    Pages 421-434

18. The Symmetry of Molecules and Molecular Vibrations

    • Bernhard Schrader

    Pages 435-475

19. Phonon Modes of Molecular Crystals

    • Douglas T. Durig, J. R. Durig

    Pages 477-504

20. Spectra of Plastic and Disordered Crystals

    • J. R. Durig, Douglas T. Durig

    Pages 505-527

Molecular spectroscopy has achieved rapid and significant progress in recent years, the low temperature techniques in particular having proved very useful for the study of reactive species, phase transitions, molecular clusters and crystals, superconductors and semiconductors, biochemical systems, astrophysical problems, etc. The widening range of applications has been accompanied by significant improvements in experimental methods, and low temperature molecular spectroscopy has been revealed as the best technique, in many cases, to establish the connection between experiment and theoretical calculations. This, in turn, has led to a rapidly increasing ability to predict molecular spectroscopic properties.
The combination of an advanced tutorial standpoint with an emphasis on recent advances and new perspectives in both experimental and theoretical molecular spectroscopy contained in this book offers the reader insight into a wide range of techniques, particular emphasis being given to supersonic jet and matrix isolation techniques, spectroscopy in cryogenic solutions (including liquid noble gases), and in both crystalline and amorphous states. Suitable quantum chemical methods are also considered, as are empirically based force field methods for calculating spectra of large molecular systems.
The wide range of topics covered includes: molecular dynamics and reactivity, time-resolved and high-resolution spectroscopy, conformational analysis, hydrogen bonding and solvent effects, structure and dynamics of weakly bound complexes, transition metal and organic photochemistry, spectroscopy of excited states, ab initio prediction of molecular spectra, and biochemical and astrophysical applications.

• Atom
• Base
• Conformational isomerism
• Isomer
• Neutron
• experiment
• isomerism
• tautomer

• Department of Chemistry, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

  R. Fausto

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