Vibrational Spectroscopic Map, Vibrational Spectroscopy, and Intermolecular Interaction

Vibrational spectroscopy and imaging.

Isomerization and intermolecular solute–solvent interactions of ethyl isocyanate: Ultrafast infrared vibrational echoes and linear vibrational spectroscopy

Thermally induced gauche–trans isomerization and direct solute–solvent interactions of the solute, ethyl isocyanate ~EIC!, in the solvent, 2-methylpentane ~2MP!, are investigated using ultrafast infrared vibrational echo experiments and linear vibrational absorption spectroscopy of the isocyanate ~N5C5O! antisymmetric stretching mode ~2278 cm!. Both the EIC vibrational echo measured pure vibrat...

Vibrational Spectroscopy of C60

The fullerene era was started in 1985 with the discovery of the stable C60 cluster and its interpretation as a cage structure with the familiar shape of a soccer ball [1]. An explosive growth in fullerene research was triggered in 1990 by the development of a method to produce fullerenes in bulk quantities [2]. Subsequently, the structural, electronic, and vibrational properties of many fullere...

Vibrational spectroscopy of resveratrol.

In this article the authors deal with the experimental and theoretical interpretation of the vibrational spectra of trans-resveratrol (3,5,4'-trihydroxy-trans-stilbene) of diverse beneficial biological activity. Infrared and Raman spectra of the compound were recorded; density functional calculations were carried out resulting in the optimized geometry and several properties of the molecule. Ba...

From Intermolecular Forces to Condensed Phase Spectroscopy: Ro-vibrational Spectroscopy Inside Superfluid Nanodroplets

Nanometer scale helium droplets [1–3] provide a unique solvent in which to perform molecular spectroscopy and are likely to become widely used by the molecular spectroscopic community in the coming years. Currently, this new technique is in its early stage of development and is being practiced in only a few laboratories, but the early results firmly support our view that this type of spectrosco...