Highly Excited Molecules Relaxation,

Integrating both theoretical and experimental approaches, this unique book examines transition states and chemical reactivity, and will be a useful tool for anyone studying the chemical dynamics, nature, and behavior of molecules in an excited state. The subject has important applications in atmospheric chemistry, plasmas, high-temperature materials processing, combustion, photosynthesis, detonation, and explosives.

Preface

xi

OVERVIEW

2

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1. Dynamics of Highly Excited States in Chemistry: An Overview

2

(24)

Amy S. Mullin

George C. Schatz

INTRAMOLECULAR DYNAMICS: BOUND MOTIONS

26

(44)

2. Filter Diagonalization: A General Approach for Calculating High-Energy Eigenstates and Eigenfunctions and for Extracting Frequencies from a General Signal

26

(13)

Daniel Neuhauser

3. Spectral Analysis of the HO(2) Molecule

39

(12)

Jorg Main

Christof Jung

Howard S. Taylor

4. The Multiresonant Hamiltonian Model and Polyad Quantum Numbers for Highly Excited Vibrational States

51

(19)

William F. Polik

J. Ruud van Ommen

INTRAMOLECULAR DYNAMICS: UNIMOLECULAR DECAY

70

(52)

5. Time Scales and Mechanisms of Intramolecular Energy Redistribution

70

(11)

David S. Perry

6. Intramolecular Dynamics Diffusion Theory: Nonstatistical Unimolecular Reaction Rates

81

(18)

Dmitrii V. Shalashilin

Donald L. Thompson

7. Photodissociation of Ozone at 276 nm by Photofragment Imaging and High-Resolution Photofragment Translational Spectroscopy

99

(8)

D. A. Blunt

A. G. Suits

8. Unimolecular Decay of Azabenzene: A Mechanistic Model Based on Pyrazine's Photoreactive Relaxation Pathways

107

(15)

James D. Chesko

Yuan T. Lee

INTERMOLECULAR DYNAMICS: NONREACTIVE ENERGY TRANSFER

122

(154)

9. Nonbonding Interactions of the Boron Atom in the Excited 2s^23s (2)S Rydberg and 2s2p^2 (2)D Valence States

122

(12)

Paul J. Dagdigian

Xin Yang

Eunsook Hwang

10. Infrared Laser Snapshots: Vibrational, Rotational, and Translational Energy Probes of High-Energy Collision Dynamics

134

(16)

George W. Flynn

Chris A. Michaels

H. Charles Tapalian

Zhen Lin

Eric T. Sevy

Mark A. Muyskens

11. Ab initio Calculations of the Interaction Potentials of Ar-HCN and Ar-HCO

150

(23)

Jianxin Qi

Max Dyksterhouse

Joel M. Bowman

12. Infrared and Collisional Relaxation of Highly Vibrationally Excited NO: Applications of Stimulated Emission Pumping in Crossed and "Uncrossed" Molecular Beams

173

(18)

Marcel Drabbels

Alec M. Wodtke

13. A New Method for Measuring Vibrational Energy Distributions of Polyatomics

191

(11)

Derek R. McDowell

Fei Wu

R. Bruce Weisman

14. Quantum Scattering Studies of Collisional Energy Transfer from Highly Excited Polyatomic Molecules: Collinear He + CS(2) at Energies up to 92 kcal/mol

202

(18)

Gyorgy Lendvay

George C. Schatz

Toshiyuki Takayanagi

15. Stalking the Step-Size Distribution: A Statistical-Dynamical Theory for Large-Molecule Collisional Energy Transfer

220

(17)

John R. Barker

16. Crossed-Molecular-Beam Observations of Vibrational Energy Transfer in Only Moderately Excited Glyoxal Molecules

237

(14)

Samuel M. Clegg

Brian D. Gilbert

Shao-ping Lu

Charles S. Parmenter

17. The Contribution of Wide-Angle Motions to Collisional Energy Transfer Between Benzene and Argon

251

(15)

V. Bernshtein

I. Oref

18. Collisional Energy Transfer of Highly Vibrationally Excited Molecules: The Role of Long-Range Interaction and Intramolecular Vibronic Coupling

266

(10)

Hai-Lung Dai

INTRAMOLECULAR DYNAMICS: REACTIVE COLLISIONS

276

(43)

19. Simulations of Energy Transfer in the Collision-Induced Dissociation of Al(6)(O(h)) Clusters by Rare-Gas Impact

276

(15)

W. L. Hase

P. de Sainte Claire

20. Collision-Induced Dissociation of Highly Excited NO(2) in the Gas Phase and on MgO (100) Surfaces

291

(13)

A. Sanov

D. W. Arnold

M. Korolik

H. Ferkel

C. R. Bieler

C. Capellos

C. Wittig

Hanna Reisler

21. Direct Calculation of Reactive Thermal Rate Constants

304

(15)

Ward H. Thompson

INDEXES

Author Index

319

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Affiliation Index

319

(1)

Subject Index

320

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Highly Excited Molecules Relaxation, Reaction, and Structure

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