{"title":"Chemical Reactions in Solution: The New Photochemistry","authors":"G. Robinson, W. Jalenak","doi":"10.1155/LC.3.163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/LC.3.163","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding the dynamics of chemical reactions in the condensed phase reaches a \u0000new plateau with each technological advance in time-resolved spectroscopy. Submicrosecond \u0000studies of the past revealed the role of long range molecular diffusion in \u0000condensed-phase chemistry and photochemistry. The picosecond (10−12–10−9 s) time \u0000scale, combined with the use of a high concentration of reactants, can provide new \u0000information about the “microdynamics” in the local region of the reaction itself. The \u0000role of solvent is particularly important: how it attaches to an activated reactant \u0000molecule, how it is displaced by the other reactant molecule preparatory to reaction, \u0000and how the solvent behavior affects the dynamics of single- and multi-channel \u0000processes, thus the relative yields of products in competing reactions. The theory \u0000presented here divides itself into two types: one that depends on a diffusion equation \u0000that also contains terms describing a distance-dependent reaction sink function and a \u0000reaction barrier; and a second type that deals phenomenologically with rate equations, \u0000including the rate of reactant/solvent interchange. Experiments subdivide naturally \u0000into steady state and transient measurements, the former dealing with quantum yields \u0000and steady state spectroscopic studies, the latter with picosecond transient spectroscopy. \u0000The two theoretical approaches can be interrelated in certain useful limits. The two \u0000types of experimental data, in combination with the theory, supply fundamental \u0000information about solvent participation in the local reaction region.","PeriodicalId":296295,"journal":{"name":"Laser Chemistry","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124922737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Martínez, M. R. López, F. Basterrechea, P. Puyuelo
{"title":"DYNAMICS OF QUANTUM SELECTED LEVELS OF ELECTRONIC EXCITED STATES OF SMALL MOLECULES","authors":"E. Martínez, M. R. López, F. Basterrechea, P. Puyuelo","doi":"10.1155/LC.11.279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/LC.11.279","url":null,"abstract":"Dynamics studies of the electronic excited states of some small molecules have been carried out. Collision free lifetimes of different rotational and vibrational levels of the A and B states of 130Te2 and 80Se2 have been obtained. Predissociation studies of the B states of the Br2 and Cl2 molecules have been carried out. Results are discussed in terms of perturbation or predissociation effects.","PeriodicalId":296295,"journal":{"name":"Laser Chemistry","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125130220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Question of mode-specificity in unimolecular reaction dynamics","authors":"W. Miller","doi":"10.1155/LC.2.243","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/LC.2.243","url":null,"abstract":"Unimolecular decomposition following state-specific laser excitation is considered. If \u0000the transition state for the unimolecular reaction possesses any geometrical symmetry, \u0000then it is shown that this can lead to mode-specificity in the decay rates (i.e., different \u0000states with essentially the same total energy and angular momentum react at significantly \u0000different rates). This is illustrated for a model problem of two coupled oscillators (the \u0000Henon–Heiles potential) and also for the unimolecular dissociation of formaldehyde, \u0000H2CO→H2","PeriodicalId":296295,"journal":{"name":"Laser Chemistry","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123711968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Role of Molecular Complexes in a Hollow-Cathode CW HeCd","authors":"H. Telle, C. G. Morgan, S. Acosta-Ortiz, Karyono","doi":"10.1155/1993/17687","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/1993/17687","url":null,"abstract":"The importance of molecular complexes in gas discharge lasers has long been recognised, and indeed they are the essence in excimer lasers. For other discharge lasers operating with gas mixtures, for example metal vapour lasers, the role of molecular complexes in the laser discharge has hardly been addressed. In this work the emission from a cw multi-colour hollow-cathode HeCd","PeriodicalId":296295,"journal":{"name":"Laser Chemistry","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125379959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"MOLECULAR RESONANCES OBSERVED IN THE PREDISSOCIATION OF Csz","authors":"Bong-Soo Kim, K. Yoshihara","doi":"10.1155/1995/79063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/1995/79063","url":null,"abstract":"Very cold molecular beam of Cs2 is generated by a high temperature supersonic jet source. State-specific photofragment yield spectrum is obtained in the orange band of Cs2. Asymmetric line shapes are observed. The Fano line shape parameter, q, shows a gradual sign change, which is called “q-reversal”. A very broad absorption band which has about 50 cm-1 width is observed and explained to occur through the perturbation by the D1∑u","PeriodicalId":296295,"journal":{"name":"Laser Chemistry","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114933220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Brouard, S. Duxon, P. Enrı́quez, R. Sayós, J. Simons
{"title":"Stereodynamical Studies of Velocity Aligned Photofragments","authors":"M. Brouard, S. Duxon, P. Enrı́quez, R. Sayós, J. Simons","doi":"10.1155/LC.11.265","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/LC.11.265","url":null,"abstract":"The state resolved stereodynamics of bimolecular reactions can be probed using velocity aligned \u0000photofragments as reagents, and polarised, Doppler resolved laser detection techniques for the products. \u0000The new strategy and its application to the reaction O(1D)","PeriodicalId":296295,"journal":{"name":"Laser Chemistry","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115585152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Foth, H. R. Mayne, R. Poirier, J. Polanyi, H. Telle
{"title":"The Spectroscopy of Transition States in H+H2 Reaction, and NaI Photodissociation","authors":"H. Foth, H. R. Mayne, R. Poirier, J. Polanyi, H. Telle","doi":"10.1155/LC.2.229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/LC.2.229","url":null,"abstract":"(a). We have computed an approximate absorption spectrum for unstable intermediates H3≠ which constitute the transition states in the fundamental exchange reaction H","PeriodicalId":296295,"journal":{"name":"Laser Chemistry","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122515017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
V. Bagratashvili, S. Tsypina, S. Alimpiev, Ya. O. Simanovski, A. Prokhorov, A. O. Rybaltovski
{"title":"UV Laser Decay of Oxygen-Deficient Centers in Silica Glasses","authors":"V. Bagratashvili, S. Tsypina, S. Alimpiev, Ya. O. Simanovski, A. Prokhorov, A. O. Rybaltovski","doi":"10.1155/LC.12.211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/LC.12.211","url":null,"abstract":"Oxygen-deficient centers decay with simultaneous formation of color centers in IR and UV grade silica glasses under KrF laser irradiation was studied. The nonexponential dependence of the ODC photodecay in silica glass on the UV irradiation dose (number of laser pulses) was observed. Postpulse long-time temporal behaviour of recombination luminescence and laser induced photoconductivity was analyzed for the two types of glasses in time scale up to 0.5 ms. Long time fluorescence tail is attributed to migration of electrons through the shallow traps before recombination and recovery of ODC. The models of postpulse recombination which can explain the observed nonexponential behaviour of ODC decay (geminal and homogeneous) are discussed. The principle part of impurities caused electron traps in the postpulse ODC recombination is shown.","PeriodicalId":296295,"journal":{"name":"Laser Chemistry","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114485500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Picosecond Absorption Spectra and Relaxation Processes of the Excited Singlet State of Pyrene in Solution","authors":"H. Miyasaka, H. Masuhara, N. Mataga","doi":"10.1155/LC.1.357","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/LC.1.357","url":null,"abstract":"The method of analysis for the ps transient absorption spectra obtained by a \u0000ps Nd3+: YAG laser photolysis system is described in detail, showing the results of \u0000pyrene in solution. The S n ← S 1 spectrum observed immediately after excitation is rather broad and its intensity in the short wavelength region is relatively enhanced, compared to the spectrum observed at later stages. For elucidating this fast spectral change, the spectrum at 0 ps was simulated from that at 100 ps, evaluating numerically the inner filter effect, depletion of the ground state molecules and temporal characteristics of the monitoring ps continuum. The difference between the simulated and experimentally observed spectra may be ascribed to the nonlinear refractive index change of the solvent, the thermal lensing effect, or to an intrinsic relaxation of the excited molecule. Examining absorption spectra obtained under various conditions, the former two possibilities were denied for the excited pyrene system. Vibrational relaxation as well as the S2 → S1 internal conversion with a time constant of less than 10 ps have been suggested to be responsible for this difference between the simulated and observed spectra.","PeriodicalId":296295,"journal":{"name":"Laser Chemistry","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114569931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recent Advances in IR Laser Chemistry","authors":"A. Kaldor, R. Woodin, R. Hall","doi":"10.1155/LC.2.335","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/LC.2.335","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":296295,"journal":{"name":"Laser Chemistry","volume":"119 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117292781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}