Ebook: Mode Selective Chemistry: Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Jerusalem Symposium on Quantum Chemistry and Biochemistry Held in Jerusalem, Israel, May 20–23, 1991

The Twenty Fourth Jerusalem Symposium reflected the high standards of these distinguished scientific meetings, which convene once a year at the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Jerusalem to discuss a specific topic in the broad area of quantum chemistry and biochemistry. The topic at this year's Jerusalem Symposium was mode selective chemistry, which constitutes a truly interdisciplinary subject of central interest in the areas of chemical physics, photochemistry and photobiology. The main theme of the Symposium was built around the exploration of the possibility and conditions for non-statistical reaction dynamics in molecules, van der Waals molecules, clusters and condensed phases. The main issues addressed photoselective and coherent excitation modes, bottlenecks for intramolecular vibrational energy redistribution, the consequences of the internal structure of many-atom systems and of rotational­ vibrational level structure for intramolecular dynamics, bond selective photodissociation, ultrafast chemical clocks for energy disposal, coherent control of photochemical reactions and nonstatistical unimolecular reaction dynamics. The interdisciplinary nature of this research area was deliberated by intensive and extensive interactions between theory and experiment. This volume provides a record of the invited lectures at the Symposium.

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-ix
How We and Molecules Explore Molecular Landscapes....Pages 1-15
Intramolecular Vibrational Redistribution on the Nanosecond Time Scale: v1and 2v1Spectra of Substituted Acetylene Compounds....Pages 17-23
Multiple Laser Probes of Intramolecular Dynamics at Chemically Significant Energies....Pages 25-45
Mode Selective Vibrational Redistribution and Unimolecular Reactions During and After Ir—Laser Excitation....Pages 47-65
Vibrational Level Structures and Resonances in Triatomic Molecules: H2o....Pages 67-86
Mode Selective Van Der Waals Chemistry....Pages 87-95
Theoretical Studies on Photofragmentation of Rare Gas-Interhalogen Van Der Waals Complexes....Pages 97-112
Mode Specific Vibrational Predissociation Dynamics in Fragile Molecules....Pages 113-126
Observations of the Level Mixing Associated with the Methyl Rotor Acceleration of Intramolecular Vibrational Redistribution. p-Fluorotoluene....Pages 127-137
Dynamics and Spectroscopy of Heteroclusters....Pages 139-152
Cluster Photoexcitation and Evaporation: Two Regimes?....Pages 153-164
Search for Mode Selective Cluster Isomerization....Pages 165-188
Dynamics of Photoinduced Reactions in Clusters....Pages 189-199
Mode-and Bond-Selected Bimolecular Reaction of Water....Pages 201-215
Mode-Selective Bond Fission in Fundamental Stretchings of Hod....Pages 217-225
Adiabatic and Non-Adiabatic Dynamics in Unimolecular Reactions....Pages 227-240
Mode specificity in intramolecular conversions....Pages 241-259
Temperatures of Fragments in Unimolecular Dissociations....Pages 261-272
Theory of Excitation, Bond Breaking, and Raman Scattering With Short Laser Pulses....Pages 273-281
Coherent Excitation Effects in Photodissociation: Strong Orientation of Molecular Products....Pages 283-305
Quantum Interference and the Control of Molecular Processes....Pages 307-322
Design of Femtosecond Pulse Sequences to Control Photochemical Products....Pages 323-331
Impulsive Iterative Inversion....Pages 333-345
Triplet States Dynamics in Isolated Molecules....Pages 347-357
Bond-Selective Memory Effects for 1s-Level Excitation of Molecules: Zero Kinetic Energy (Zeke) Electron-Photoion Coincidence Measurements....Pages 359-370
Random Walk Model for Energy Transfer at High Temperatures....Pages 371-392
On the landau method of calculating quasiclassical matrix elements....Pages 393-399
Molecular Electronic Energy Transfer in a Supersonic Jet Expansion....Pages 401-413
Mode Specifity in Collisions of Aniline with Surfaces covered with Organized Organic Monolayers....Pages 415-427
No(X2II) Product State Distributions in Molecule-Surface Dissociative Scattering: N, I - C3f7no from Mg0(100)....Pages 429-441
Implications of Giant Optical Vibrations Created by Ultrashort Laser Pulses....Pages 443-455
Femto-Second Processes and Ultrafast Biological Electron Transfer....Pages 457-466
Active Control of Selectivity of Product Formation in a Chemical Reaction: What’s New?....Pages 467-484
The Prospects for Impulsively Driven, Mode-Selective Chemistry in Condensed Phases....Pages 485-525
Mode Selective Chemistry....Pages 527-533
Back Matter....Pages 535-571
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