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This volume contains lectures and seminars presented at the Nato Advanced Study Institute on "Laser Applications to Chemistry" held at San Miniato (Pisa) Italy, June 27 - July 11, 1982. We would like to give our recognition to all who contributed to the superb scientific quality and to the stimulating atmosphere of this summer school. In particular, we thank all speakers and participants in the discussions. We acknowledge the great efforts of Tito Arecchi as the director of the school, and the assistance of Mrs. Maria Bonaria Petrone and Mrs. Giovanna Ravini in the or ganization of the conference. On behalf of all participants we thank Miss Iva Arecchi for the friendly care she has taken and for her profound guidance through its history and the arts of the Toscana during the excursions. We are in particular indebted to Giacinto Scoles who organ ized this meeting together with Karl L. Kompa. Unfortunately, due to health reasons, Giacinto Scoles had to give up the idea of edit ing the proceedings of this meeting. Naturally, the change in the editorial staff caused a delay in the preparation of this volume. The subject of laser application to chemistry has not been review ed comprehensively in recent years. Many of the lectures andsem inars presented in San Miniato had the character of review arti cles. Therefore we feel that the material contained in this vol ume has not lost any of its actuality.
List of contents
Laser and Related Light Sources.- Laser Sources for Chemical Experiments.- High Power Optically Pumped Mid-Infrared Molecular Gas Lasers.- Synchrotron Radiation and Laser Excitation Sources for Studies of Intramolecular Dynamics.- Enhancing Synchrotron Radiation: Wigglers, Undulators and the Free Electron Laser.- Laser Applications to Analytical Chemistry.- Analytical Chemistry Methods Based on Absorption of Laser Light.- Laser Excited, Fluorescence Methods in Analytical Chemistry.- Multiphoton Ionization in Analytical Chemistry.- Nonlinear Spectroscopic Techniques and their Applications to Analytical Chemistry.- Laser Measurements of Trace Gases in the Atmosphere and in the Laboratory.- Spectroscopic and Dynamical Studies.- VUV Laser Spectroscopy of Atomic and Molecular Hydrogen.- Laser Spectroscopy of Molecular Ions.- Photodissociation Dynamics Experiments with NO2.- Collision Induced Mode Selective Energy Transfer in Methylfluoride.- Infra-Red Laser Induced Energy Distributions in Polyatomic Molecules.- Dynamics of Multiphoton Excitation of Polyatomic Molecules by Means of One or Two IR Laser Frequencies.- Multiphoton Ionization and Fragmentation of Polyatomic Molecules.- Multiphoton Selective Excitation: on the Role of Chaotic Dynamics with many Basins of Attraction.- Two Applications of Lasers: I. Multiphoton Excitation of Chemical Reactions II. Mode Specific Excitation of Bimolecular Reactions.- State-to-State Chemical Kinetics Studied with Laser-Induced Fluorescence.- The Effect of Vibrational and Translational Excitation in Atom-Molecule Reactions.- IR Laser-Induced Desorption, Reaction, and Ionization Processes at Surfaces.- Study of Molecule-Surface Interaction by Lasers.- Laser Photolysis Studies of Quinone Reduction by Chlorophyll in Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Systems.- Approaches to Laser Synthesis.- Laser Initiated Free Radical Chemistry.- Laser Induced Selective Decomposition Reactions.- Photoinitiated Catalysis by Transition Metal Carbonyls.- Formation of C2H3Cl by Laser-Induced Radical Chain Reactions.- List of Participants.
