This unified treatment introduces upper-level undergraduates and graduate students to the concepts and the methods of modern molecular spectroscopy and their applications to quantum electronics, lasers, and related optical phenomena. Starting with a review of quantum mechanical background, it examines atomic spectra and diatomic molecules, group theory, and more. 1985 edition.

Molecules and radiation; an introduction to modern molecular spectroscopy (Harper's chemistry series)

Science & Math

Steinfeld, Jeffrey I.

Chemistry

Harper&Row

This bestselling comprehensive laboratory textbook includes experiments with background theoretical information, safety recommendations, and computer applications. For the eighth edition, there are updated chapters on spreadsheets and other scientific software.

Experiments in Physical Chemistry

Shoemaker, David

Garland, Carl

Nibler, Joseph

McGraw-Hill Companies, The

This book offers a presentation of the macroscopic view of empirical kinetics and the microscopic molecular viewpoint of chemical dynamics.

Chemical Kinetics and Dynamics

PRENTICE/HALL

Presents a balanced presentation of the macroscopic view of empirical kinetics and the microscopic molecular viewpoint of chemical dynamics. Stressing interconnections between phenomenological chemical kinetics and molecular reaction dynamics, the book discusses reactions in gas phase, liquids, and at surfaces; molecular potential surfaces; gas-gas and gas-surface theories applied to reactive collisions. It features applications to atmospheric chemistry, combustion, and chemical lasers as well as multiple methods for solving kinetic equations. It also addresses topics not found in other books: Information theory, Stochastic simulation, and Sensitivity analysis. The second edition of Chemical Kinetics and Dynamics has been revised to include the latest information as well as new topics, such as heterogeneous reactions in atmospheric chemistry, reactant product imaging, and molecular dynamics of H + H2. It provides an experimental observation of the transition state ("Femtochemistry"); new treatment of stratospheric chemistry, including heterogeneous processes, balance among catalytic cycles, environmental consequences, and policy implications as well as current database information on NIST kinetics as well as JPL evaluations. A valuable resource on kinetics for professional atmospheric kineticists and chemical engineers.

Chemical Kinetics and Dynamics (2nd Edition)

Francisco, Joseph S.

Hase, William L.

Pearson

An enormous amount of research on lasers and their applications in spectroscopy has been done over the decade since the first edition of this text,was published in 1974. The last five of the book's 14 chapters have been completely rewritten for this new edition to reflect these developments. They take up molecular beams, masers, lasers, optical resonance spectroscopy, coherent transient spectroscopy, multiple-photon spectroscopy, and "spectroscopy beyond molecular constants." What has not changed in this edition is the breadth of its coverage, one of the features that led to its wide use as a graduate-level text. It is still the only available text that presents from a consistent theoretical perspective an introduction both to classical atomic and molecular spectroscopy and to the spectroscopic advances made possible by modern optics, particularly laserbased methods. Although the author has taken care not to lose sight of the lore and tradition of classical spectroscopy, his underlying interest is in molecular dynamics and the interaction of radiation and matter, in addition to the tabulation and assignment of spectral lines and their interpretation in terms of molecular structure. The first nine chapters deal mainly with classical topics. The presentations have been updated and corrected, and a more consistent notation is employed in this edition. After a review of the quantum-mechanical background and atomic spectra, the book discusses the rotational, vibrational, and electronic spectra of diatomic molecules. A brief presentation of rudimentary group theory then leads to a consideration of the spectra of polyatomic molecules. Jeffrey I. Steinfeld is Professor of Chemistry at MIT.

Molecules and Radiation - 2nd Edition: An Introduction to Modern Molecular Spectroscopy

Physics

Mit Pr

This text begins with the mathematical and physical apparatus encountered in most first courses in molecular quantum mechanics. The first nine chapters provide an introduction to research monographs of Herzberg and others in the field. Included here are discussions of radiationless transitions, photoelectron spectroscopy, and other topics not usually considered in texts at this level. Chapters on the latest research and methods in the field—molecular beam and optical pumping spectroscopy, masers and lasers, and multiphoton spectroscopy—follow. The analogy of simple magnetic resonance spectroscopy to optical spectroscopy is explained using the Feynman-Vernon-Hellwarth theorem and then applied to saturation, self-induced transparency, and photon echoes. The author writes that the book "is the outgrowth of several iterations of a one-semester graduate course in molecular spectroscopy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with supplementary material added. The emphasis of the course was on introducing students to the concepts and the methods of modern molecular spectroscopy so that the language would be familiar when the course proceeded to discuss quantum electronics, lasers, and related coherent and nonlinear optical phenomena."

Molecules and Radiation: An Introduction to Modern Molecular Spectroscopy

The MIT Press

The possibility of initiating chemical reactions by high-intensity laser exci tation has captured the imagination of chemists and physicists as well as of industrial scientists and the scientifically informed public in general ever since the laser first became available. Initially, great hopes were held that laser-induced chemistry would revolutionize synthetic chemistry, making possible "bond-specific" or "mode-specific" reactions that were impos sible to achieve under thermal equilibrium conditions. Indeed, some of the early work in this area, typically employing high-power continuous-wave sources, was interpreted in just this way. With further investigation, however, a more conservative picture has emerged, with the laser taking its place as one of a number of available methods for initiation of high-energy chemical transformations. Unlike a number of these methods, such as flash photolysis, shock tubes, and electron-beam radiolysis, the laser is capable of a high degree of spatial and molecular localization of deposited energy, which in turn is reflected in such applications as isotope enrichment or localized surface treatments. The use of lasers to initiate chemical processes has led to the discovery of several distinctly new molecular phenomena, foremost among which is that of multiple-photon excitation and dissociation of polyatomic molecules. This research area has received the greatest attention thus far and forms the focus of the present volume.

Laser-Induced Chemical Processes

Springer

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