The Structure of Small Molecules and Ions

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Small Molecules and Ions: A Thing or Two We Still don’t Understand....Pages 1-8
Approximate Separability and Choice of Coordinates for Excited Vibrations of Polyatomic Molecules and Clusters....Pages 9-27
The Application of Spectral Measures to the Stimulated Emission Pumping of Acetylene....Pages 29-37
Dynamical Effects in the “Phase Change” Behavior of Small Clusters....Pages 39-47
Spectroscopic Signatures of Floppiness in Molecular Complexes....Pages 49-58
Nonstatistical Behavior in the Vibrational Predissociation Dynamics of Binary and Tertiary Complexes....Pages 59-67
Rovibrational Spectroscopy of ArCo Van Der Waals Complex....Pages 69-75
Infrared Spectroscopy of Molecular Ions....Pages 77-86
Estimation of Microwave and Infrared Spectral Parameters of Some Molecular Ions from Ab-Initio Electronic Structure Calculations....Pages 87-92
Structure of Small Molecules Via the Coulomb Explosion Method....Pages 93-103
Preparation of Molecules in a Single State for Coulomb Explosion Measurements....Pages 105-111
What can Coulomb Explosions Teach Us about Clusters?....Pages 113-117
Probing of Nuclear Waves in Triplet H 2 (n=3)....Pages 119-124
Multiphoton Ionization of Clusters: Reactions and Spectroscopy....Pages 125-131
Photodetachment Spectroscopy of Negative Cluster Ions....Pages 133-145
The Structure of Small Molecules and Ions as Determined by Photoionization Mass Spectrometry....Pages 147-169
Dynamic Aspect of Excited-State Photoelectron Spectroscopy: Some Small Molecules....Pages 171-172
Probing Molecular Dynamics with Laser Photoelectron Spectroscopy....Pages 173-180
A Photoion-Photoelectron Coincidence Study of (CO) 2 ....Pages 181-187
Direct Calculation of Molecular Transition Energies by the Open-Shell Coupled-Cluster Method....Pages 189-195
Topology of the Ground-State Surface of CH 4 + ....Pages 197-208
Fragmentation Mechanisms for Multiply-Charged Cations....Pages 209-218
The Natural Bond Orbital Lewis Structure Concept for Molecules, Radicals, and Radical Ions....Pages 219-225
Studies in the Paired Orbital Method III: The Structure of the Po Wavefunction....Pages 227-236
Participation of a Hydrogen-Bridged Intermediate Ion [O=C(H)-H..Co] + in the Loss of Co from Ionized Glyoxal?....Pages 237-242
Studies of Ion Cluster Structures by MS/MS Methods....Pages 243-249
Nonadiabatic Effects in Unimolecular Reactions of Ionized Molecules....Pages 251-260
Potential Energy Surfaces and Dissociation Mechanisms of the C 2 H 4 + Ion....Pages 261-263
The Unimolecular Chemistry of [1, 2-Propanediol] +. : A Rationale in Terms of Hydrogen Bridged Radical Cations....Pages 265-267
The Energetic and Structural Interpretation of Ion Photodissociation Spectra....Pages 269-271
The Search for Novel Small Molecules and Radicals....Pages 273-283
New Information on the Structure and Dynamics of Molecular Cations from Experiments on The Spectroscopy of Polyatomic Rydberg States....Pages 285-291
Production and Relaxation of Negative Cluster Ions by Use of High-Rydberg Rare Gas Atoms....Pages 293-307
Excitation and Ionization of High N H-Atoms by Monochromatic and Bichromatic Microwave Fields....Pages 309-318
A Zero-Order Electronic Structure Model for Ionic Diatomic Molecules....Pages 319-331
Recent Developments in Studies of Open-Shell Cations Via Their Electronic Transitions....Pages 333-334
Back Matter....Pages 335-342
....Pages 343-351