Edited by
Monique M. Martin, UMR CNRS-ENS 8640,
Pasteur, Department of Chemistry,
Paris Cedex, France
James T. Hynes, UMR CNRS-ENS 8640, Pasteur, Department of Chemistry, Paris Cedex, France and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0215, USA
Description
This book reflects the heights of knowledge of ultrafast chemical processes attained in these early years of the 21st century : the latest
research in femtosecond and picosecond molecular processes in Chemistry and Biology, carried out around the world, is described here
in more than 110 articles. The results were presented and discussed at the VIth International Conference on Femtochemistry, in Paris,
France, from July 6 to July 10, 2003. The articles published here were reviewed by referees selected from specialists in the Femtochemistry
community, guaranteeing a collective responsability for the quality of the research reported in the next 564 pages. Femtochemistry is
an ever-growing field, where new research areas are constantly opening up, and one which both stimulates and accompanies the development
of ultrafast technologies.
The increasing interest in femtobiology and chemistry at the frontier with biology is an obvious indicator
of the present impact of life sciences in our society. New materials and reactions at surfaces are also some of the relatively new topics
that promise rapid developments. New methodologies and technologies for probing and following in real time molecular dynamical phenomena
have appeared within the last ten years or so. These methods, based on multidimensional IR spectroscopies, ultrafast X-ray and electron
diffraction techniques, are well represented in this book. Of ever-improving performance, they are now applied to the characterization
of structural dynamics of an increasing number of chemical and biological systems.
This book reports the state of research in Femtochemistry
and Femtobiology presented at Paris, at the Maison de la Chimie, in July 2003, representing the tenth anniversary of the conference.
Audience:
Chemists, physicists and biologists in the fields of atomic and molecular science.
