Time-resolved infrared spectroscopy has been proven to be a powerful tool for investigating the structure, dynamics and reactivity of electronically-excited states of inorganic molecules. As applications drive the production of ever more complex molecules however, experimental tools that can deliver more detailed spectroscopic information, or separate multiple contributions to complex signals w...

The ultrafast photolysis of the cation complex [(cyclam-ac)FeN3] is studied by femtosecond spectroscopy with ultraviolet excitation and mid-infrared probing. Immediately after UV absorption, the excited complex undergoes internal conversion and azide dissociation within 2 ps. The subsequent vibrational relaxation in the electronic ground state and geminate recombination of the fragments take pl...

self-association of alcohols; including ethanol, methanol, cyclopentanol and octanol in separate mixtures with inert solvents have been studied using ft-ir spectroscopy. except for the band at 3640 cm–1 in the ir spectrum of the alcohols which is due to the monomer species, the presence of other bands in the region of stretching vibrational frequencies of oh (3100-3700 cm–1) are attributed to t...

Nuclear vibrations play a prominent role in the spectroscopy and dynamics of electronic systems. As recent experimental and theoretical studies suggest, this may be even more so when vibrational frequencies are resonant with transitions between the electronic states. Herein, a vibronic multilevel Redfield model is reported for excitonically coupled electronic two-level systems with a few explic...

The one-to-one clusters of the 2,5-lutidyl radical [2-CH3,5-(ĊH2)C5H3N] with Ar, N2, CH4, CF4, C2H6, C3H8, C4H10, and C2H4 are studied by fluorescence excitation spectroscopy, mass resolved excitation spectroscopy, and ab initio and semiempirical calculational techniques. Cluster binding energies for the ground (D0) and excited (D1) states, cluster spectroscopic shifts, and van der Waals cluste...

We have combined scanning tunneling microscopy with inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy (IETS) and density functional theory (DFT) to study a tetracyanoethylene monolayer on Ag(100). Images show that the molecules arrange in locally ordered patterns with three nonequivalent, but undeterminable, adsorption sites. While scanning tunneling spectroscopy only shows subtle variations of the loc...