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Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Volume 58, 2007

A Spectroscopist's View of Energy States, Energy Transfers, and Chemical Reactions

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Abstract

This chapter describes a research career beginning at Berkeley in 1960, shortly after Sputnik and the invention of the laser. Following thesis work on vibrational spectroscopy and the chemical reactivity of small molecules, we studied vibrational energy transfers in my own lab. Collision-induced transfers among vibrations of a single molecule, from one molecule to another, and from vibration to rotation and translation were elucidated. My research group also studied the competition between vibrational relaxation and chemical reaction for potentially reactive collisions with one molecule vibrationally excited. Lasers were used to enrich isotopes by the excitation of a predissociative transition of a selected isotopomer. We also tested the hypotheses of transition-state theory for unimolecular reactions of ketene, formaldehyde, and formyl fluoride by () resolving individual molecular eigenstates above a dissociation threshold, () locating vibrational levels at the transition state, () observing quantum resonances in the barrier region for motion along a reaction coordinate, and () studying energy release to fragments.

Keyword(s): Autobiography, bimolecular reactions, formaldehyde, ketene, lasers, transition states, unimolecular reactions, vibrational energy transfer
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A Spectroscopist's View of Energy States, Energy Transfers, and Chemical Reactions
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