Advances in Laser Chemistry

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-X

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2. Laser-Induced Chemistry

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Internal Energy Transfer in Isolated Molecules: Ergodic and Nonergodic Behavior

      • S. A. Rice

      Pages 2-42

   3. Spectroscopy and Relaxation of Vibrationally Excited HCO Radicals

      • J. P. Reilly, J. H. Clark, C. B. Moore, G. C. Pimentel

      Pages 43-47

   4. Dye Laser-Induced Photochemistry

      • K. V. Redely, R. G. Bray, M. J. Berry

      Pages 48-61

   5. Chemical Applications of Lasers

      • A. Baronavski, J. E. Butler, J. W. Hudgens, M. C. Lin, J. R. McDonald, M. E. Umstead

      Pages 62-70

   6. A Direct Measure of the Partitioning of Electronic, Vibrational, Rotational, and Translational Energies in Unimolecular Processes

      • J. Campbell, M. H. Yu, C. Wittig

      Pages 71-73

   7. Laser Synthetic Chemistry and Laser Photogeneration of Catalysis

      • J. H. Clark, K. M. Leary, T. R. Loree, L. B. Harding

      Pages 74-81

   8. Vibrational Excitation in the Products of S-Tetrazine Photolysis

      • D. Coulter, H. Reisler, C. Wittig, D. Dows

      Pages 82-87

   9. Deuterium Enrichment by CW CO2 Laser Induced Vibrational Photochemistry

      • D. S. Y. Hsu, T. J. Manuccia

      Pages 88-92

   10. IR Photodissociation of Fluorinated Ethanes and Ethylenes: Collisional Effects in the Multiple Photon Absorption Process

       • C. R. Quick Jr., C. Wittig

       Pages 93-96

3. Picosecond Processes and Techniques

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97

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   2. Vibrational and Electronic Relaxation in Moderate Sized Systems

      • R. M. Hochstrasser

      Pages 98-107

   3. Picosecond Emission Spectroscopy with an Ultraviolet Sensitive Streak Camera

      • G. W. Robinson, T. A. Caughey, R. A. Auerbach

      Pages 108-125

   4. Picosecond Studies of Some Ultrafast Events in Bacterial Photosynthesis

      • P. M. Rentzepis, K. J. Kaufmann, P. Avouris, T. Kobayashi, E. O. Degenkolb

      Pages 126-144

   5. Advances in Subpicosecond Spectroscopic Techniques

      • C. V. Shank, E. P. Ippen

      Pages 145-148

   6. Picosecond Dynamics of the Formation of Charge Transfer States in 9,9′-Bianthryl

      • R. W. Anderson

      Pages 149-154

   7. Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Ultrashort-Lived States of Aromatic Compounds

      • K. J. Choi, L. A. Hallidy, H. B. Lin, M. R. Topp

      Pages 155-162

   8. Picosecond Studies of Unimolecular Processes

      • K. K. Smith, K. J. Kaufmann

      Pages 163-169

   9. Picosecond Chromodynamics of Electrons in Fluids

      • G. A. Kenney-Wallace

      Pages 170-178

The laser as a radiation source with temporal and spatial coherence has made a tremendous impact in the different fields of science. As a result, new and exciting research has been developing allover the world. Laser spectro­ scopy shares a large fraction of this research, and in the last decade nu­ merous books and monographs have been published on this subject. Most of these books and monographs contain the work done in the physics community. Very few books represent the advances made in laser chemistry, a field that is flourishing and whose future is indeed very exciting. It was felt that a meeting that focused on the important questions being asked in the chemistry community, and on new and possible directions in laser chemistry, was needed. This three-day conference, held at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, on March 20-22, 1978, covered five important areas in laser chemistry: Laser-induced chemistry, picosecond processes and techniques, nonlinear optical spectroscopy and dephasing processes, multiphoton exci­ tation in molecules, and molecular dynamics by molecular beams.

• Absorption
• Atom
• Sorption
• catalysis
• collision
• dynamics
• fluorescence
• laser
• molecule
• photochemistry
• photon
• spectra
• spectroscopy
• structure
• ultraviolet

• California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA

  Ahmed H. Zewail

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