Fundamental Ultrafast Processes in Chemistry, Physics, and Biology To order this title, and for more information, click here
By Michele Kimble
Edited By Welford Castleman Jr., Departments of Chemistry and Physics, Penn State University, University Park, USA
Description Since the emergence of femtochemistry seventeen years ago, remarkable progress has been made and femtosecond spectroscopy devoted to Chemistry
and Biology has become a well established field of research, giving rise to femtochemistry and femtobiology. The significance of the
field is recognized through its impact around the world, giving rise to numerous conferences which includes the most recent conference
from the Femtochemistry Conference Series, Femtochemistry VII.
This title is made up of contributions made from the Femtochemistry
VII conference held in Washington D.C., 17-22 July 2005. The stimulating conference was opened by Professor Ahmed Zewail (1999 Nobel
Prize Winner), and as was evident by the attendees at the conference, had a very active program with the presentation of numerous talks
and a large number of posters. Subjects covered include imaging, structural dynamics, and spectroscopies, fundamentals of reaction dynamics,
salvation phenomenta, liquids and interfaces, aggregates/particles/surfaces, protein dynamics and photobiology, quantum control, and
intense laser-matter interactions.
Audience
Chemists, physicists and biologists in the fields of atomic and molecular science.
Contents
1. Imaging, Structural Dynamics, Spectroscopies
4D Structural Dynamics
Ultrafast Wave Packet, Coherent Control and
Dissociation Dynamics
Ultrafast Laser-pump X-ray Probe Measurements of Solvated Transition Metal Complexes
Electron Dynamics of Metal-Carbon
Clusters
Time Resolved CARS Measurements of I2 in Solid Kr: Vibrational State Dependent Dephasing Times Between 2.6 – 32 K
The Ultrafast
Photofragmentation Pathway of N,N-Dimethylisopropylamine
Ultrafast Photofragmentation Dynamics of Gas Phase CH2BrCl
Determination of
Charge State of Tungsten During Ultrafast Hard X-Ray Generation
Multi-Dimensional fs Spectroscopy of an Excitonic Dimer, Described by
Redfield Relaxation Theory
High Power Synchronized Femtosecond Ti:Sapphire Laser with Sub-Femtosecond Timing Jitter
Ultrafast Vibrational
Evolution of Excited-State Coumarin 153 Using fs/ps CARS as a Transient Raman Probe
Development of fs/ps CARS as a Sub-100 fs Transient
Raman Probe
Ultrafast Fluorescence Parametric Amplification for Femtosecond Molecular Dynamics Research
A Density-Functional Study
of the Structural, Electronic, and Vibrational Properties of Ti8C12 Metallocarbohedrynes with Relevance to Ultrafast Time-Resolved Spectroscopy
2. Fundamentals of Reaction Dynamics
Sub 5 fs Spectroscopy of Polydiacetylene
Dark Intermediate States in Photochemical
Cis-Trans Isomerization and Pericyclic Reactions
Multi-Component Fitting of Cluster Dynamics
Photodissociation of SO2 at 200 nm: Evidence
of an Anisotropy Effect
Energy Transfer Dynamics in Zn-Porphyrin-Appended Dendrimers
Vectorial Energy Transfer: Direct Measurement
of an Intermediate Transfer Step
Ultrafast Dynamics of Strongly Confined Water
Femtosecond-Domain Dynamical Studies of Energy-Transfer
Cassettes
Fluorescence of Polythiophenes: The Effect of Intra- and Interchain Processes on the Excited State Dynamics
Probing and Controlling
Ultrafast Dynamics of a Molecular Switch
3. Solvation Phenomena
Solvation and Photochemical Funnels: Environmental
Effects on Conical Intersection Structure and Dynamics
Simulation of Resonance Raman Spectra of the Solvated Electron in Water and Methanol
Dynamics Following Charge-Transfer to Solvent in I-(water)n (n = 3 28) Clusters Observed with Photoelectron Imaging
Ultrafast Photoelectron
Imaging of the Electronic Relaxation of a Molecule Deposited at the Surface of an Argon Cluster
Solution Femtochemistry of Two Selected
H-bonded Systems
Solvent Dependent Conformational Relaxation of cis-1,3,5-Hexatriene
4. Liquids and Interfaces
Vibrational Echo and Pump-Probe Spectroscopic Studies of the Dynamics of Water Molecules Confined to Nanoscopic Dimensions
Excited-State
Dynamics of the PYP Chromophore in Solution. Environment and Structure Effects
Second Harmonic and Sum Frequency of Molecules at Aqueous
Interfaces
Solvation Dynamics in Ionic Liquids, Results from ps and fs Emission Spectroscopy
Femtosecond Relaxation Dynamics of Solvated
Electrons from Liquid Metal-Ammonia Solutions: Temperature Jump versus Local Density Jump
Multiplex Electronic Sum Frequency Generation
Spectroscopy of Dye Molecules at the Air/Water Interface
Photodetachment of Aqueous Iodide: Variation of the Excitation Energy and Solution
Temperature
A Combined Femtosecond Fluorescence and TD-DFT Study of Uracil Derivatives in Aqueous Solution
5. Aggregates/Particles/Surfaces
Ultrafast Electronic and Lattice Processes of Plasmonic Nanoparticles of Different Shape
Relaxation of Photoexcited States in Mass-Selected
Agn- and AgnO2- Clusters
Time-Resolved Single Molecule Spectroscopy of Conjugated Polymer Nanoparticles
Influence of Different Anchor-Bridge
Groups on Electron Transfer from the Molecular Chromophore Perylene to the Wide Gap Semiconductor TiO2
Electron Transfer from Molecular
Chromophores to Semiconductors Probed with Two-Photon-Photoemission
Interfacial Electron Transfer or Concentration Quenching?
6.
Protein Dynamics and Photobiology
Femtosecond Spectroscopy for the Study of Initial Reactions in Protein Folding
The Photochemistry
of Novel Flavin-Binding Photoreceptors
Electronic 2D Spectroscopy of Light Harvesting
Intermediates in the Ultrafast Repair of DNA
by DNA Photolyase
Ultrafast Protein Dynamics
A Mechanism of Photo-Labile (De)-Protection in Chemical and Biological Systems Studied
by Femtosecond Vibrational Spectroscopy
Photochemistry and Dynamics of Base Pairs
2D Electronic Spectroscopy of the B800-B820 LH3 Light-Harvesting
Complex
Spectrally Resolved Femtosecond Nonlinear Spectroscopy for the Study of Vibrational Dynamics of Carotenoid Light Harvesting
Molecules
Ultrafast Studies of the Electronic Structure and Dynamics of B12 Cofactors
A Simple Artificial Light Harvesting Dyad as
a Mimic of Nonphotochemical Quenching in Green Plants
Ultrafast Dynamics of Fluorescent DNA Intercalators
Two-Photon Excited-State
and Conformation Dynamics of NADH Binding with Dehydrogenases
Transient IR and 2D-IR Spectroscopy of Thiopeptide Isomerization
Direct
Observation of DNA Repair by Photolyase
Ultrafast Hydration Dynamics in Protein
Conformational Transitions
Intramolecular Electron
Transfer Beyond Solvent Control: Probing Sub-100 fs Photoinduced Electron
Transfer in Triarylmethane Lactones
Fluorescence Dynamics
of Coumarin on Montmorillonite Structure
Fluorescence Anisotropy of Photoactive Yellow Protein (PYP) and Related Systems: Is the Low-Lying
Excited State of the PYP Quasi-Degenerate?
Light-Driven Enzymatic Reaction in Thermophilic Protochlorophyllide Oxidoreductase
7.
Quantum Control
Converting Concepts and Dreams of Coherent Control into Applications
Design of Circularly Polarized Laser
Pulses for Periodic Electron Circulation in Mg-Porphyrin
Learning Feedback Control Analysis
Analysis and Control of Ultrafast Dynamics
in Clusters
Controlling the Dynamical Pathways in the
Ionization Processes of NaK Dimers
Coherent Control of Isotope Selective Ionization
and Fragmentation of Potassium
Understanding Learning Control in a Molecular Family
Controlling the Dissociative Ionization of DCl
by Femtosecond Laser Pulses
Spectrum Control in Femtosecond Time-Resolved Spectroscopy
Pulse Shaping Control of Spatially Aligned Rotational
Wavepackets of N2 and O2
?Radiationless? Photon Echo
Exciton Control in the FMO Complex: Influence of Laser Pulse Polarization
Spin-Orbit
Coupling Under Control
Quantitative Phase Characterization and Compensation by Multiphoton Intrapulse Interference Phase Scan (MIIPS)
8. Intense Laser – Matter Interactions
Ultrafast Cluster Electron and Coulomb Explosion
Dynamics Driven by Ultraintense
Laser Fields
Nonadiabatic Multielectron Dynamics in (Moderaterately) Strong Laser Fields:
C60 a Model Case for Large Finite System
Chirped Photoelectron Attochemistry
Intense Femtosecond Laser Driven Explosions of Heteronuclear Clusters
Spectral Phase and Detuning
Effects in High-Power Chirped Pulse Excitation of a Dye Solution
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