Energy Dissipation in Molecular Systems (eBook)

Preface 5
Contents 7
1 The Basic Notions 10
1.1 Introductory Remarks 10
1.2 Excited Molecular States 11
1.3 Coupling Schemes and Level Patterns 15
1.4 The Time Evolution of Excited States 21
1.5 Summary 30
1.6 Franck–Condon Rule and Gap Laws 31
2 Experimental Techniques 38
2.1 Principles of Time- and Energy-Resolved Experiments 38
2.2 Isolated Molecules 40
2.3 Time-Resolved Measurements 45
2.4 Model Systems for Molecular Interaction Studies 47
3 Intramolecular Vibrational Redistribution 52
3.1 Introduction 52
3.2 IVR in Excited Electronic States 55
3.3 IVR in Ground Electronic States 62
3.4 IVR and the Vibrational Predissociation 71
3.5 Modelling of the Level Coupling Patterns 76
3.6 Conclusions 80
4 Vibrational and Rotational Relaxation 82
4.1 Introduction 82
4.2 Collisional Vibrational and Rotational Relaxation 89
4.3 Direct and Sequential Paths of the Vibrational Relaxation 96
4.4 The Competition Between Relaxation Channels 108
5 Electronic Relaxation 116
5.1 Potential-Energy Surfaces 116
5.2 Nonintersecting Potential-Energy Surfaces 121
5.3 The Environmental Effects on Electronic Relaxation 137
5.4 Intersecting Potential-Energy Surfaces 141
5.5 Conclusions 160
6 The Electron and Proton Transfer 162
6.1 General Remarks 162
6.2 Electron Transfer 165
6.3 Proton/Hydrogen-Atom Transfer 179
6.4 Final Remarks 188
7 Postface 190
References 194
Chapter 1: The Basic Notions 194
Chapter 2: Experimental Techniques 195
Chapter 3: Intramolecular Vibrational Redistribution 196
Chapter 4: Vibrational and Rotational Relaxation 199
Chapter 5: Electronic Relaxation 202
Chapter 6: The Electron and Proton Transfer 206
Index 210