Frontiers and Advances in Molecular Spectroscopy

Broad coverage of the most cutting-edge molecular spectroscopy research, written by the leading international scientists in each area

Jaan Laane (Edited by)

9780128112205

Paperback, published 13 November 2017

788 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 4.8 cm, 1.2 kg

"Compared to other books about molecular spectroscopy, this book is brilliant when new approaches and developments are of interest. The book can be not compared with many other textbooks about molecular spectroscopy. It is more a collection of novel, sophisticated approaches, and methods. The concept to report about frontiers and advances is outstanding. ...In summary, I would like to congratulate the editor to provide the spectroscopy community with such an extraordinary oeuvre that will help to understand and to use modern methods of molecular spectroscopy." --Springer Nature

Frontiers and Advances in Molecular Spectroscopy once again brings together the most eminent scientists from around the world to describe their work at the cutting-edge of molecular spectroscopy. Much of what we know about atoms, molecules and the nature of matter has been obtained using spectroscopy over the last one hundred years or so. Going far beyond the topics discussed in Jaan Laane’s earlier book on the subject, these chapters describe new methodologies and applications, instrumental developments and theory, which are taking spectroscopy into still new frontiers. The robust range of topics once again demonstrates the wide utility of spectroscopic techniques.

1. Stark-Induced Adiabatic Passage Processes to Selectively Prepare Vibrationally Excited Single and Superposition of  Quantum States 2. Advances in Two-Dimensional Correlation Spectroscopy (2DCOS) 3. Applications of 2D-IR Spectroscopy to Probe the Structural Dynamics of DNA 4. Vibrational Potential Energy Surfaces in Ground and Excited Electronic States 5. Structures and Dipole Moments of Molecules in Their Electronically Excited States 6. Two-Color Pulsed-Field Ionization-Photoelectron Spectroscopy: A Quest to Benchmark State-of-the-Art ab initio Quantum Electronic Structure Calculations of Spectroscopic and Energetic Properties for Transition Metal-Containing Species 7. Advances in Far-Ultraviolet Spectroscopy in the Solid and Liquid States 8. Development of Sub-10 fs Visible-NIR, UV, and DUV Pulses and Their Applications to Ultrafast Spectroscopy 9. Biomedical Applications of Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Spectroscopy 10. SERS Biomedical Applications: Diagnostics, Forensics, and Metabolomics 11. Quantitative Spectrometry of Complex Molecular Systems by Hypothetical Addition Multivariate Analysis With Numerical Differentiation (HAMAND) 12. Progress in FAST CARS Toward Quantum Biophotonics 13. Coherent Raman Generation in Solid-State Materials Using Spatial and Temporal Laser Field Shaping 14.  Vibrational Optical Activity: From Small Chiral Molecules to Protein Pharmaceuticals and Beyond 15. High-Resolution Laboratory Terahertz Spectroscopy and Applications to Astrophysics 16. Studying Interaction, Ion-Pair Formation, and Mixing Behavior of Protic Ionic Liquids by Means of Far-Infrared Spectroscopy 17. Advancements in Microwave Spectroscopy 18. Nitric Oxide Laser-Induced Fluorescence Imaging Methods and Their Application to Study High-Speed Flows 19. Photogeneration of Rare Molecules in Cryogenic Matrices: Spectroscopists’ Adventures in Wonderland 20. Matrix Isolation Spectroscopic Studies: Thermal and Soft Photochemical Bimolecular Reactions 21. Theory of Enantiomer-Specific Microwave Spectroscopy

Subject Areas: Analytical chemistry [PNF]