Ultrafast Molecular Reaction Dynamics In Real-Time: Progress Over A Decade

Khundkar, L.

doi:10.1146/annurev.physchem.41.1.15

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“…Other types of data stem from measurements of reaction enthalpies and activation energies using thermochemical (Chase et al 1985, Lias et al 1988, Nefedov et al 1992, Berkowitz et al 1994 or photochemical methods in molecular beams, for which a multitude of special techniques exist (see, for instance, the reviews by Polanyi and Zewail (1995), Baer and Hase (1996), Bradley Moore and Smith (1996), Neumark (1996) as well as many contributions in the conference proceedings by Manz and Wöste (1995)). Additional relevant data from reaction dynamics are state-specific rate constants from time-resolved kinetic experiments (Lupo andQuack 1987, Manz andWöste 1995), in particular, data from femtosecond timeresolved laser experiments related to coherent wave packet evolutions (Khundkar and Zewail 1990, Baumert et al 1992, Zewail 1993. Some experiments, such as "Coulomb explosion imaging" (Zajfman et al 1991, Kella andVager 1995), allow to extract specific information on the form of the wave packet evolution.…”

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Global Analytical Potential Energy Surfaces for High‐resolution Molecular Spectroscopy and Reaction Dynamics

Marquardt¹,

Qüack²

2011

Handbook of High‐resolution Spectroscopy

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Analytical representations of potential energy hypersurfaces for the nuclear motion in polyatomic molecules from ab initio theory and experiment are discussed in a general way. The qualification of potential hypersurface representations from ab initio theory regarding the description of experimental data from rovibrational high-resolution spectroscopy and chemical reaction kinetics is analyzed in more detail for a restricted group of molecules including methane, CH 4 , ammonia, NH 3 , H 2 O 2 , and (HF) 2 . Current methods for the derivation of analytical representations of potential energy surfaces as well as some applications are reviewed.

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Global Analytical Potential Energy Surfaces for High‐resolution Molecular Spectroscopy and Reaction Dynamics

Marquardt¹,

Qüack²

2011

Handbook of High‐resolution Spectroscopy

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Molecular photophysics

Beddard

1993

Rep. Prog. Phys.

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Polyatomic molecules exhibit a wide range of complex, but transient, photophysical behaviour much of which has only recently been observed with the advent of laser pulses of picosecond and femtosecond duration. Several of these processes, such as wavepacket dynamics, photodissociation and isomerizations of a chemical bond; electron transfer and solvent stabilization of excited states are discussed along with the techniques and lasers used for their measurement.

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Chemical reaction dynamics with molecular beams

2000

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This review describes advances which have occurred during the past decade in chemical reaction dynamics using crossed molecular beams. After a brief historical introduction, advances in the generation and state selection of beams of reactants, and in the schemes for product detection, which are at the basis of our increased ability to measure state-averaged and state-resolved reactive differential cross sections in crossed beam experiments, are described. The novel couplings of laser and synchrotron radiation to these experiments are noted. A selection of case studies are considered in some detail, to exemplify recent improvements in our understanding of gas-phase neutral reaction dynamics. The examples include prototype reactions involving three-atom and four-atom systems, and the results are discussed in the light of the most recent, synergistic, theoretical developments for treating both the potential energy surfaces and the reaction dynamics. Progress made in studies of reactions of molecular radicals and of chemically important atoms, such as carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen, with polyatomic molecules, as made possible by recent developments in the classic crossed beam technique with mass spectrometric detection, is emphasized. Some complementary techniques that recently have contributed to our understanding of chemical reactivity are also described briefly.

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Ultrafast Molecular Reaction Dynamics In Real-Time: Progress Over A Decade

Cited by 7 publications

References 49 publications

Global Analytical Potential Energy Surfaces for High‐resolution Molecular Spectroscopy and Reaction Dynamics

Global Analytical Potential Energy Surfaces for High‐resolution Molecular Spectroscopy and Reaction Dynamics

Molecular photophysics

Chemical reaction dynamics with molecular beams

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