Laser Applications in Chemistry

Laser and Related Light Sources.- Laser Sources for Chemical Experiments.- High Power Optically Pumped Mid-Infrared Molecular Gas Lasers.- Synchrotron Radiation and Laser Excitation Sources for Studies of Intramolecular Dynamics.- Enhancing Synchrotron Radiation: Wigglers, Undulators and the Free Electron Laser.- Laser Applications to Analytical Chemistry.- Analytical Chemistry Methods Based on Absorption of Laser Light.- Laser Excited, Fluorescence Methods in Analytical Chemistry.- Multiphoton Ionization in Analytical Chemistry.- Nonlinear Spectroscopic Techniques and their Applications to Analytical Chemistry.- Laser Measurements of Trace Gases in the Atmosphere and in the Laboratory.- Spectroscopic and Dynamical Studies.- VUV Laser Spectroscopy of Atomic and Molecular Hydrogen.- Laser Spectroscopy of Molecular Ions.- Photodissociation Dynamics Experiments with NO2.- Collision Induced Mode Selective Energy Transfer in Methylfluoride.- Infra-Red Laser Induced Energy Distributions in Polyatomic Molecules.- Dynamics of Multiphoton Excitation of Polyatomic Molecules by Means of One or Two IR Laser Frequencies.- Multiphoton Ionization and Fragmentation of Polyatomic Molecules.- Multiphoton Selective Excitation: on the Role of Chaotic Dynamics with many Basins of Attraction.- Two Applications of Lasers: I. Multiphoton Excitation of Chemical Reactions II. Mode Specific Excitation of Bimolecular Reactions.- State-to-State Chemical Kinetics Studied with Laser-Induced Fluorescence.- The Effect of Vibrational and Translational Excitation in Atom-Molecule Reactions.- IR Laser-Induced Desorption, Reaction, and Ionization Processes at Surfaces.- Study of Molecule-Surface Interaction by Lasers.- Laser Photolysis Studies of Quinone Reduction by Chlorophyll in Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Systems.- Approaches to Laser Synthesis.- Laser Initiated Free Radical Chemistry.- Laser Induced Selective Decomposition Reactions.- Photoinitiated Catalysis by Transition Metal Carbonyls.- Formation of C2H3Cl by Laser-Induced Radical Chain Reactions.- List of Participants.