High Resolution Electronic Spectroscopy of Small Molecules

Over recent years electronic spectroscopy has developed significantly, with key applications in atmospheric chemistry, astrophysics and astrochemistry. High Resolution Electronic Spectroscopy of Small Molecules explores both theoretical and experimental approaches to understanding the electronic spectra of small molecules, and explains how this information translates to practice.

Professors Geoffrey Duxbury and Alexander Alijah present the links between spectroscopy and photochemistry, and discuss theoretical treatments of the interaction between different electronic states. They provide a thorough discussion of experimental techniques, and explore practical applications.

This book will be an indispensable reference for graduate students and researchers in physics and chemistry working on theoretical and practical aspects of electronic spectra, as well as atmospheric scientists, photochemists, kineticists and professional spectroscopists.

Introduction

Linear and bent molecule vibration-rotation Hamiltonians for open-shell molecules

The Renner-Teller effect

First Row dihydrides

Second Row Dihydrides

Third Row Dihydrides

Astrophysics: The electronic spectrum of H2O+ and its relationships to the observations made from Herschel, an ESA space observatory

Appendix

Geoffrey Duxbury, Alexander Alijah