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A number of other spectroscopies provide information that is related to molecular structure, such as coordination symmetry, electronic splitting, and/or the nature and number of chemical functional groups in the species. This information can be used to develop models for the molecular structure of the system under study, and ultimately to determine the forces acting on the atoms in a molecule for any arbitrary displacement of the nuclei. According to the energy of the particles used for excitation (photons, electrons, neutrons, etc.), different parts of a molecule will interact, and different structural information will be obtained. Depending on the relaxation process, each method has a characteristic time scale over which the structural information is averaged. Especially for NMR, the relaxation rate may often be slower than the rate constant of a reaction under study. 

The details of the scintillation process are complicated and depend very much on the molecular structure of the scintillator. In organic crystals, the molecules of the organic solid are excited from their ground states to their electronic excited states (see Fig. 18.18). The decay of these states by the emission of photons occurs in about 10-8 s (fluorescence). Some of the initial energy absorbed by the molecule is dissipated as lattice vibrations before or after the decay by photon emission. As a result, the crystal will generally transmit its own fluorescent radiation without absorption. 

Changes in the electronic and molecular structures of a molecule A due to a transition from its ground to an excited state can result in creation of conditions for chemical bonding between the excited molecule A (in the whole review the symbol A will denote an excited particle A in general the number X in the symbol XA denotes the multiplicity of the excited particle A), and another molecule Q of the system, giving rise to an excited adduct (A — Q) [1], Such an adduct formed in a bimolecular dynamic adiabatic process... 

Photochemistry of conjugated hydrocarbons can be rationalized by the common electronic and molecular structure of the surface crossing between a covalent excited state and the ground state. 

The excitation levels (there may be several) of an insulator do not extend to the vacuum level of zero energy. Any photon absorbed by an insulator will result in an electron from one of the unexcited energy levels corresponding to the valence band transferring to one of the excitation levels. The absorption spectra related to these photons can be considered a band pass function only photons with an energy bounded by specific values will excite the material. The excited electrons cannot move about within the molecular structure of the insulator. They are normally de-excited by fluorescence or phosphorescence. 

Figure 6 Molecular structures of two pyrenyl-substituted uridine nucleosides, pyrenyl-dU and pyrenoyl-dU. In polar protic solvents, the lowest-energy electronic excited state of pyrenyl-dU is a pyrene-to-uridine charge-transfer state, pyrene +/dU .

Among a variety of spectroscopic methods, vibrational spectroscopy is most commonly used in structural chemistry. IR/Raman spectroscopy provides information about molecular symmetry of relatively small molecules and functional groups in large and complex molecules. Furthermore, Raman spectroscopy enables us to study the structures of electronically excited molecules and unstable species produced by laser photolysis at low temperatures. Several other applications that are important in structural chemistry are also discussed in this section. 

The effect of electron excitations of the / source is comparable in magnitude with the expected value of the neutrino rest mass and is manifested in the region most sensitive to the nonzero mv. The allowance for the molecular structure of the / source in reduction of the experimental data of the ITEP group has led to the most probable value of the neutrino rest mass mv = 33 eV (Boris et al., 1983). 

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