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High-Resolution Spectroscopy of Transient Molecules

High-Resolution Spectroscopy of Transient Molecules

Endo, Y.
Kawaguchi, K.
Hirota, Eizi

Paperback

Series: Springer Chemical Physics, Book 40

ChemistryGeneral SciencePhysics

ISBN10: 364282479X
ISBN13: 9783642824791
Publisher: Springer
Published: Dec 15 2011
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
It is a great challenge in chemistry to clarify every detail of reaction processes. In older days chemists mixed starting materials in a flask and took the resul- tants out of it after a while, leaving all the intermediate steps uncleared as a sort of black box. One had to be content with only changing temperature and pressure to accelerate or decelerate chemical reactions, and there was almost no hope of initiating new reactions. However, a number of new techniques and new methods have been introduced and have provided us with a clue to the examination of the black box of chemical reaction. Flash photolysis, which was invented in the 1950s, is such an example; this method has been combined with high-resolution electronic spectroscopy with photographic recording of the spectra to provide a large amount of precise and detailed data on transient molecules which occur as intermediates during the course of chemical reac- tions. In 1960 a fundamentally new light source was devised, i. e., the laser. When the present author and coworkers started high-resolution spectroscopic stud- ies of transient molecules at a new research institute, the Institute for Molecu- lar Science in Okazaki in 1975, the time was right to exploit this new light source and its microwave precursor in order to shed light on the black box.

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