RESEARCH ACTIVITIES III
Department of Electronic Structure

A. Ultrafast Intermolecular Electron Transfer

  1. Substituent Effect and Deuterium Isotope Effect of Ultrafast Intermolecular Electron Transfer: Coumarin in Electron Donating Solvent
  2. Ultrafast Intermolecular Electron Transfer Dynamics in Coumarin-Hydrazine System
  3. Ultrafast Intermolecular Electron Transfer and Back Electron Transfer in Coumarin-Aniline System
  4. Oscillatory Fluorescence Decay of Electron-Donor-Acceptor Complex

B. Liquid Dynamics Studied by Higher Order Nonlinear Spectroscopy

  1. Overtone Vibrational Dephasing in Chloroform and Deuterated Chloroform

C. Studies on Ultrafast Solvent Dynamics by Optical Kerr Effect

  1. Ultrafast Optical Kerr Effect and Solvation Dynamics of Liquid Aniline
  2. Ultrafast Dynamics of Liquid Anilines Studied by the Optical Kerr Effect
  3. Deuterium Isotope Effect on Ultrafast Polarizability Anisotropy Relaxation in Methanol

D. Ultrafast Dynamics of UV-Photoexcited Simple Molecules in Solution by Femtosecond Transient Absorption Spectroscopy

  1. The Polarization Response of I2 Produced by Photoinduced Chemical Reaction in Neat CH3I
  2. The I2 Formation by UV Excitation in CH3I/CH3CN System
  3. Solute Concentration Dependence of Complex Formation I and CH2I2 by Photodissociation of CH2I2 in Solution
  4. Ultrafast Dynamics of Photoexcited trans- and cis-1,3,5-Hexatriene in Solution
  5. Formation of Benzene Dimer Cations in Neat Liquid Benzene

E. Dynamical Behavior of Electronically Excited States

  1. Relaxation Processes from a Higher Excited State of a Dye Molecule in Solution Studied by Femtosecond UV Fluorescence Up-Conversion Method

F. Photochemistry on Well-Defined Surfaces

  1. Comparative Study of Photochemistry of Methane on Pt(111) and Pd(111) Surfaces
  2. Photodesorption Dynamics of Methane on Pd(111)

G. Reaction Dynamics on Well-Defined Surfaces

  1. Effective Carbonate Formation Induced by Thermal Dissociation of N2O on Si(100)

H. Multiphoton Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Electronic States at Metal Surfaces

  1. Angle-Resolved Multiphoton Photo-electron Spectroscopy of a Clean Pt(111) Surface
  2. Two-Photon Photoemission Study of CO adsorbed on Pt(111)

I. Potentials for Large-Amplitude Vibrations of Molecules in van der Waals Complexes

  1. Electronic Spectra of the 2,2'-Bithiophene-Ar Complex

J. Self-Organization in Chemical Reactions

  1. Photo-Induced Excitability in the Tris-(bipyridyl)ruthenium(II)-Catalyzed Minimal Bromate Oscillator
  2. Pulse-Light Induced Phase Shifts of Oscillations in the Minimal Bromate Oscillator

K. Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Vibrationally Excited Molecules and Clusters

  1. Nonresonant Ionization Detected IR Spectroscopy for the Vibrational Study in a Supersonic Jet
  2. Overtone Spectroscopy of Phenol Studied by the Nonresonant Ionization Detected IR Spectroscopy

L. Large Amplitude Motion in Molecular Cation Studied by Pulsed Field Ionization Zero Kinetic Energy Photoelectron Spectroscopy

  1. Internal Rotation of Methyl Group in o- and m-Toluidine Cations as Studied by Pulsed Field Ionization-Zero Kinetic Energy Spectroscopy

M. Laser Investigation of Molecular Photodissociation Dynamics

  1. Quantal and Semiclassical Analysis of Vector Correlation in Molecular Photodissociation
  2. A Test of Semiclassical Analysis of Vector Correlation in Photofragment Imaging: 355 nm Photodissociation of NO2
  3. Non-Adiabatic Bending Dissociation of OCS
  4. C-Cl Bond Rupture in Ultraviolet Photo-dissociation of Vinyl Chloride
  5. C-Br Bond Rupture in 193 nm Photodissociation of Vinyl Bromide
  6. Detection of Metastable Triplet Acetylene Produced by Intersystem Crossing from the Excited A(1Au) State
  7. Pump-Probe Measurements of the Predissociation Reaction Time of C2H2 from Ã(1Au) State
  8. Dissociation of Metastable CH3CO Radical Observed by Subpicosecond Time-Clocked Imaging
  9. 2D Imaging of Dissociative Ionization of Molecules in Intense Laser Fields

N. One Atom Cage Effect and a Search for Dynamical Resonance

  1. Detection of Ar-HI by (2+1) REMPI

O. Laser Investigation of Bimolecular Reaction Dynamics

  1. Testing Crossed Beam Imaging Apparatus by Observing Inelastic Scattering of NO with Ar at Ecoll = 70 meV

P. Jet Spectroscopy of Free Radicals

  1. Jet Spectroscopy of the D1 22B1 - D012B1 Transition of the p-Cyanobenzyl Radical
  2. Laser Induced Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Jet Cooled Benzophenone Ketyl Radical

Q. Photochemistry in Molecular Clusters

  1. Photochemical Reaction in the Neutral Molecular Clusters of Benzophenone with Hydrogen Donors Formed in a Supersonic Free Jet Expansion

R. Photochemical Processes Studied by Time-Resolved ESR

  1. The First Observation of CIDEP Generated through the Interaction between an Excited Singlet Oxygen Molecule and a Free Radical

S. Magnetic Behavior of Stable Radical Crystals with Delocalized Spin Structures and Electronic Excited States of Stable Radicals and Their Molecular Crystals

  1. Magnetic Properties of Stable N-[(Dichlorophenyl)thio]-2,4,6-tri-phenylphenyl-aminyl and N-[(Dichlorophenyl)thio]-2,4,6-tris(chloro-phenyl)phenylaminyl Radical Crystals
  2. Magnetic Properties of Stable Pyridyl-Thioaminyl Radical Crystals
  3. Electronic Excited States of Stable Radicals and Their Molecular Crystals

T. Conformation, Photoisomerization and Solvent Effect of Merocyanine Dyes

  1. Conformational Analysis and Photoisomerization of Merocyanine Dyes Studied by Visible Absorption, Resonance Raman and IR Spectroscopies
  2. Intermolecular Interaction of Merocyanine Dyes Studied by Visible Absorption, Resonance Raman and Infrared Spectroscopies

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