Time-Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy

George H. Atkinson, Department of Chemistry and Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona.

• Preface, Contributors, Participants, BIOCHEMICAL SYSTEMS: ISOMERIZATION and DEPROTONATION during the PHOTOCYCLE of DEIONIZED and ACID BACTERIORHODOPSIN by TIME RESOLVED RAMAN; CONFIGURATIONS of RETINAL and 0-CAROTENE in the LOWEST-EXCITED TRIPLET-STATE PRODUCED from DIFFERENT cis-trans ISOMERS; FEMTOSECOND EXCITED STATE DYNAMICS from RESONANCE RAMAN INTENSITIES; PICOSECOND TIME-RESOLVED RESONANCE RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY of BACTERIORHODOPOSIN INTERMEDIATES; RESONANCE RAMAN STUDY on CATALYTIC INTERMEDIATES of CYTOCHROME c OXIDASE; TIME-RESOLVED and ULTRAVIOLET RESONANCE RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY OF BIOLOGICAL MOLECULES; ACTIVE SITE CONFORMATIONS of HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE as REVEALED by TIME RESOLVED RESONANCE RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; RATE of NUCLEATION of a Z-FORM in a B-FORM DNA; NEW TECHNIQUES for the RESONANCE RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY of ENZYME-SUBSTRATE INTERMEDIATES; ENERGY TRANSFER between CHLOROPHYLL a and all TRANS /3-CAROTENE IN VITRO as RESOLVED by FLUORESCENCE PHOTOQUENCHING; NONLINEAR AND COHERENT SPECTROSCOPY TRANSIENT INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY in GASES and LIQUIDS on the PICOSECOND and SUB-PICOSECOND TIME SCALE; TIME-RESOLVED SPONTANEOUS RAMAN SCATTERING by CHRYSENE in S, and T, and TIME-RESOLVED CSRS with the USE of INCOHERENT LIGHT; DYNAMICAL ASPECTS of RAMAN SCATTERING; PICOSECOND TIME-RESOLVED RAMAN STUDIES with CW MODE-LOCKED LASERS. CHEMISTRY: VIBRATIONAL ANALYSES of TRANS-STILBENE in the GROUND (So) and FIRST EXCITED SINGLET (Si) STATES; The STRUCTURE of ELECTRONIC EXCITED STATES: ULTRAVIOLET EXCITED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY and PICOSECOND TRANSIENT RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; APPLICATION of TIME-RESOLVED RESONANCE RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY to the STUDY of PHOTOCHROMISM; RESONANCE CARS of DIPHENYLPOLYENES in the EXCITED STATES: VIBRONIC SHIFT of a 2'Ag STATE VIBRATION; OPTICAL DEPLETION TIMING: a METHOD to ENHANCE the SELECTIVITY of TRANSIENT RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; INTERNAL ROTATION of METHYL GROUP in ELECTRONICALLY EXCITED STATE. THEORY: DETUNING from VIBRATIONAL ABSORPTION FEATURES: A PROBE of INTRAMOLECULAR DYNAMICAL PATHWAYS; MOLECULAR COHERENCE EFFECTS in TIME-RESOLVED RESONANT MULTIPHOTON IONIZATION; On TWO RECENT THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENTS in RESONANCE RAMAN SCATTERING: 1) LIGHT INDUCED SPECTRAL REDISTRIBUTION of EMISSION from a THREE-LEVEL SYSTEM and 2) A DIRECT “ INVERSE TRANSFORM” METHOD in the MULTIMODE PROBLEM; COHERENT OPTICAL TRANSIENTS of a SYSTEM with FINITE SPATIAL and TEMPORAL CORRELATION; DYNAMICS Of RADIATIONLESS TRANSITIONS in CONDENSE PHASE: SIMULATING ELECTRON TRANSFER REACTIONS; Author Index.