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.
Author(s): R. Stephen Berry (auth.), J. Jortner, R. D. Levine, B. Pullman (eds.)
Series: The Jerusalem Symposia on Quantum Chemistry and Biochemistry 24
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 1991
Language: English
Pages: 580
Tags: Physical Chemistry;Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics
Front Matter....Pages i-ix
How We and Molecules Explore Molecular Landscapes....Pages 1-15
Intramolecular Vibrational Redistribution on the Nanosecond Time Scale: v 1 and 2v 1 Spectra 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: H 2 o....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
Mode Selectivity In Cluster-Molecule Interactions: Ni 13 + D 2 ....Pages 153-164
Cluster Photoexcitation and Evaporation: Two Regimes?....Pages 165-188
Search for Mode Selective Cluster Isomerization....Pages 189-199
Dynamics of Photoinduced Reactions in Clusters....Pages 201-215
Mode-and Bond-Selected Bimolecular Reaction of Water....Pages 217-225
Mode-Selective Bond Fission in Fundamental Stretchings of Hod....Pages 227-240
Adiabatic and Non-Adiabatic Dynamics in Unimolecular Reactions....Pages 241-259
Mode specificity in intramolecular conversions....Pages 261-272
Temperatures of Fragments in Unimolecular Dissociations....Pages 273-281
Theory of Excitation, Bond Breaking, and Raman Scattering With Short Laser Pulses....Pages 283-305
Coherent Excitation Effects in Photodissociation: Strong Orientation of Molecular Products....Pages 307-322
Quantum Interference and the Control of Molecular Processes....Pages 323-331
Design of Femtosecond Pulse Sequences to Control Photochemical Products....Pages 333-345
Impulsive Iterative Inversion....Pages 347-357
Triplet States Dynamics in Isolated Molecules....Pages 359-370
Bond-Selective Memory Effects for 1s-Level Excitation of Molecules: Zero Kinetic Energy (Zeke) Electron-Photoion Coincidence Measurements....Pages 371-392
Random Walk Model for Energy Transfer at High Temperatures....Pages 393-399
On the landau method of calculating quasiclassical matrix elements....Pages 401-413
Molecular Electronic Energy Transfer in a Supersonic Jet Expansion....Pages 415-427
Mode Specifity in Collisions of Aniline with Surfaces covered with Organized Organic Monolayers....Pages 429-441
No(X 2 II) Product State Distributions in Molecule-Surface Dissociative Scattering: N, I - C3f7no from Mg0(100)....Pages 443-455
Implications of Giant Optical Vibrations Created by Ultrashort Laser Pulses....Pages 457-466
Femto-Second Processes and Ultrafast Biological Electron Transfer....Pages 467-484
Active Control of Selectivity of Product Formation in a Chemical Reaction: What’s New?....Pages 485-525
The Prospects for Impulsively Driven, Mode-Selective Chemistry in Condensed Phases....Pages 527-533
Mode Selective Chemistry....Pages 535-571
Back Matter....Pages 573-580
