Atomic and Molecular Clusters

Abstract

1. Supersonic Carbon Cluster Beams. Laser vaporization cluster beams and abundance distributions. Reactivity studies. Photophysics of the positive cluster ions. FT-ICR experiments. UPS of carbon clusters. Optical spectroscopy of C 60 . One parting question. 2. Main Group Clusters: A Review. Cluster sources and detection. Cluster distributions. Ionization, fragmentation, and thermodynamics. Chemistry. Theoretical calculations of cluster structures and energies. Structure and spectroscopy of cluster species. Concluding remarks. 3. The Structures of Weakly Bound Complexes as Elucidated by Microwave and Infrared Spectroscopy. 4. Infrared Predissociation Spectroscopy of van der Waals Clusters. Experimental techniques. High resolution spectroscopy. Theory of vibrations in small clusters. Ab-initio calculations and normal modes. Frozen field local mode methods. Quantum simulation of the clusters. Theory of water clusters. Vibrational relaxation and predissociation. Theory of vibrational predissociation. Infrared spectroscopy of large clusters. Simulation of large clusters. Conclusions. 5. Rotational Rainbows, Quantum Interference, Intramolecular Vibrational Relaxation and Chemical Reactions: All in Rare Gas-Halogen Molecules. Brief overview of halogen spectroscopy. Brief review of experimental methods. Structures and bond energies. Vibrational predissociation dynamics: experimental results. Quantum mechanical calculations of vibrational dynamics. Classical and semiclassical models for vibrational predissociation. Reactive half-collisions. Larger clusters. Condensed phases. Epilog. 6. Photoabsorption and Photoionization of Clusters. Experimental methods. Spectroscopy. Photoionization. 7. Organic Solute/Solvent Clusters and Solute Dimers. Experimental methods. Computer simulation, modeling and calculations. Static properties of solute solvent clusters. Spectroscopy and calculations. Solute dimers. Dynamical properties of solute/solvent clusters and dimers - intramolecular vibrational redistribution (IVR) and vibrational predissociation (VP). Chemical reactions in van der Waals clusters. Nucleation and growth of clusters. Conclusions and perspectives. 8. Spectroscopy and Excitation Dynamics of Large Molecular Clusters. Theoretical perspectives on neat molecular clusters. Experimental methodology. Neat molecular clusters. Doped molecular clusters. Spectroscopy of cluster ions. Outlook for advances in molecular cluster spectroscopy. (Chapters also include an introduction and references). Index.