Low Temperature Molecular Spectroscopy

Spectroscopy of matrix-isolated molecules. 1. Principles, procedures and pitfalls.- Spectroscopy of matrix-isolated molecules. 2. Applications: pointing the way to synthesis and mechanisms in inorganic and organometallic chemistry.- Matrix photochemistry of transition metal complexes: principles, applications and links to other methods.- Conformational isomerism and photodecomposition of carboxylic compounds studied by matrix isolation infrared spectroscopy.- Combined matrix-isolation FT-IR and ab initio 6–31 ++ G** studies on the tautomerism and H-bonding properties of nucleic acid bases and simpler model molecules.- Low temperature spectroscopy: from ground to space. The case of the difluse interstellar bands.- Association between electron donor molecules and HCl in argon matrices.- Matrix perturbation of vibrational isotope effects.- Heavy atom effects in proton tunneling phenomena.- The cooling of internal degrees of freedom of polyatomic molecules in supersonic free jets.- Pulsed nozzle Fourier transform microwave spectroscopy of weakly bound molecular complexes.- Structure and dynamics of Van der Waals Complexes.- Large amplitude vibrations in electronic spectra in supersonic jets.- Conformational analysis by laser spectroscopy.- Infrared spectroscopy in liquefied noble gases.- Tunnelling spectroscopy with neutrons: quantised rotational states in solids.- The symmetry of molecules and molecular vibrations.- Phonon modes of molecular crystals.- Spectra of plastic and disordered crystals.- Conformational studies by vibrational spectroscopy under high pressure.- NIR-FT Raman spectroscopy: finding the optimal conditions to record spectra of living systems.- Using low temperature spectroscopy to understand protein structure, dynamics and function.- Reflectionabsorption infrared spectroscopy at low temperatures.- Short contributions: titles and authors.- Author index.