Molecular Conformation and Organic Photochemistry Time-resolved Photoionization Studies /

• Main Author: Brogaard, Rasmus Y. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,
• Subjects: Chemistry.; Spectroscopy.; Physical chemistry.; Atomic structure.; Molecular structure.; Spectra.; Spectroscopy/Spectrometry.; Atomic/Molecular Structure and Spectra.; Physical Chemistry.

Rasmus Brogaard's thesis digs into the fundamental issue of how the shape of a molecules relates to its photochemical reactivity. This relation is drastically different from that of ground-state chemistry, since lifetimes of excited states are often comparable to or even shorter than the time s...

Table of Contents:

• Aspects and investigation of photochemical dynamics
• A time-resolved probing method: photoionization
• Simulation of time-resolved photoionization signals
• Simulation: the Norrish type-I reaction in acetone
• Experimental setups
• Paracyclophanes I: [2+2]cycloaddition of ethylenes
• Paracyclophanes II: The Paternò-Büchi reaction
• Probing structural dynamics by interaction between chromophores.