Condition monitoring reactive strategies

The second photochemical strategy for the study of reactive intermediates is flash photolysis (see Section 7.6.2). A very brief pulse of light generates the reactive intermediate under more conventional conditions, typically fluid media at ambient temperatures. Then a fast spectroscopic technique is used to directly monitor the ensuing reactions of the photochemically generated reactive intermediate. As laser pulses have gotten progressively shorter in duration, ever faster processes have been probed. 

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