This work details the proceedings of the JSPS/NSF Symposium, on Time-Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy, held in Honolulu, Hawaii 18-22 November 1985. Involving primarily Japanese and American scientists, topics were divided into Biochemical Systems, Nonlinear and Coherent Spectroscopy, Chemistry, and Theory.
Preface, Contributors, Participants, BIOCHEMICAL SYSTEMS: ISOMERIZATION
and DEPROTONATION during the PHOTOCYCLE of DEIONIZED and ACID
BACTERIORHODOPSIN by TIME RESOLVED RAMAN; CONFIGURATIONS of RETINAL and
0-CAROTENE in the LOWEST-EXCITED TRIPLET-STATE PRODUCED from DIFFERENT
cis-trans ISOMERS; FEMTOSECOND EXCITED STATE DYNAMICS from RESONANCE RAMAN
INTENSITIES; PICOSECOND TIME-RESOLVED RESONANCE RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY of
BACTERIORHODOPOSIN INTERMEDIATES; RESONANCE RAMAN STUDY on CATALYTIC
INTERMEDIATES of CYTOCHROME c OXIDASE; TIME-RESOLVED and ULTRAVIOLET
RESONANCE RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY OF BIOLOGICAL MOLECULES; ACTIVE SITE
CONFORMATIONS of HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE as REVEALED by TIME RESOLVED
RESONANCE RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; RATE of NUCLEATION of a Z-FORM in a B-FORM DNA;
NEW TECHNIQUES for the RESONANCE RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY of ENZYME-SUBSTRATE
INTERMEDIATES; ENERGY TRANSFER between CHLOROPHYLL a and all TRANS
/3-CAROTENE IN VITRO as RESOLVED by FLUORESCENCE PHOTOQUENCHING; NONLINEAR
AND COHERENT SPECTROSCOPY TRANSIENT INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY in GASES and
LIQUIDS on the PICOSECOND and SUB-PICOSECOND TIME SCALE; TIME-RESOLVED
SPONTANEOUS RAMAN SCATTERING by CHRYSENE in S, and T, and TIME-RESOLVED CSRS
with the USE of INCOHERENT LIGHT; DYNAMICAL ASPECTS of RAMAN SCATTERING;
PICOSECOND TIME-RESOLVED RAMAN STUDIES with CW MODE-LOCKED LASERS. CHEMISTRY:
VIBRATIONAL ANALYSES of TRANS-STILBENE in the GROUND (So) and FIRST EXCITED
SINGLET (Si) STATES; The STRUCTURE of ELECTRONIC EXCITED STATES: ULTRAVIOLET
EXCITED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY and PICOSECOND TRANSIENT RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;
APPLICATION of TIME-RESOLVED RESONANCE RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY to the STUDY of
PHOTOCHROMISM; RESONANCE CARS of DIPHENYLPOLYENES in the EXCITED STATES:
VIBRONIC SHIFT of a 2'Ag STATE VIBRATION; OPTICAL DEPLETION TIMING: a METHOD
to ENHANCE the SELECTIVITY of TRANSIENT RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; INTERNAL ROTATION
of METHYL GROUP in ELECTRONICALLY EXCITED STATE. THEORY: DETUNING from
VIBRATIONAL ABSORPTION FEATURES: A PROBE of INTRAMOLECULAR DYNAMICAL
PATHWAYS; MOLECULAR COHERENCE EFFECTS in TIME-RESOLVED RESONANT MULTIPHOTON
IONIZATION; On TWO RECENT THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENTS in RESONANCE RAMAN
SCATTERING: 1) LIGHT INDUCED SPECTRAL REDISTRIBUTION of EMISSION from a
THREE-LEVEL SYSTEM and 2) A DIRECT INVERSE TRANSFORM METHOD in the
MULTIMODE PROBLEM; COHERENT OPTICAL TRANSIENTS of a SYSTEM with FINITE
SPATIAL and TEMPORAL CORRELATION; DYNAMICS Of RADIATIONLESS TRANSITIONS in
CONDENSE PHASE: SIMULATING ELECTRON TRANSFER REACTIONS; Author Index.
George H. Atkinson, Department of Chemistry and Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona.