Experimental Advances

Historically, the first experiments that helped stimulate the theory were essentially multipulse OKE echo experiments without specific phase matching [15]. The first experiments deliberately exploiting phase matching to isolate the fifth-order signal were performed by Tominaga and Yoshihara [58]. These initial experiments were performed on liquid CS2 at room temperature. This was 

One of our major contributions to the experimental techniques used in nonlinear spectroscopy has been the wide-ranging use of diffractive optics. Simple period gratings have been used in third-order resonant [22,72,73] and nonresonant 

The ability to heterodyne detect the signal is extremely important in nonlinear spectroscopy where the phase of the signal field often contains information about what physical process generated it. In third-order spectroscopy heterodyne detection allows the separation of the resonant from the noiuesonant 

The results of this calculation are shown in Tables 1.2 and 1.3 for liquid CS2 and liquid benzene, respectively, for the two-color experiment. 

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In tliis section we have not discussed experimental advances tliat are offering extraordinary insights into tlie way tlie denatured molecules reach tlie native state. Two remarkable experimental approaches hold tlie promise tliat in short order we will be able to watch tlie folding process from submicrosecond time scale until tlie native state is reached. A brief summary of tliese follow. 

S. Wolfe, in Organic Sulfur Chemistry, Theoretical and Experimental Advances (Eds. F. Bernardi, I. G. Csizmadia and A. Mangini), Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1985, pp. 133-190. 

A significant recent experimental advance is the introduction of tandem mass spectrometers for studying ion-molecule reactions. Examining various isotope effects as a function of translational energy can provide detailed information about reaction mechanisms. Tandem experiments can also observe many of the possible reaction channels for a given collision complex. Such information provides valuable clues to the chemical and physical nature of the intermediates in ion-neutral interactions. 

The theoretical aspects highlighted in this section show that describing heterogeneous ET dynamics by the continuum model can be regarded as reasonable. In the next section, we shall discuss in detail the experimental advances and how some results cast doubts in the picture outlined so far. 

Hu and Truhlar have recently reported a modeling transition state solvation at a single-water representation [295]. Recent experimental advances leading to the study of SN2 reactions of gas-phase microsolvated clusters which can advantageously been studied with ab initio electronic theory. These experiments and theoretical studies are quite relevant to chemical reactions in supercritical water. 

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Experimental advances during the last decade have clarified the molecular bases of circadian rhythms, first in Drosophila and Neurospora, and more recently in cyanobacteria, plants, and mammals [95-99]. In nearly all cases investigated so far, it appears that circadian rhythms originate from the negative... 

Molecular models for circadian rhythms were initially proposed [107] for circadian oscillations of the PER protein and its mRNA in Drosophila, the first organism for which detailed information on the oscillatory mechanism became available [100]. The case of circadian rhythms in Drosophila illustrates how the need to incorporate experimental advances leads to a progressive increase in the complexity of theoretical models. A first model governed by a set of five kinetic equations is shown in Fig. 3A it is based on the negative control exerted by the PER protein on the expression of the per gene [107]. Numerical simulations show that for appropriate parameter values, the steady state becomes unstable and limit cycle oscillations appear (Fig. 1). 

Chemistry, Theoretical and Experimental Advances. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1985. 

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (NMR) is now widely regarded as having evolved into a discipline in its own right. The field has become immensely diverse, ranging from medical use through solid state NMR to liquid state applications, with countless books and scientific journals devoted to these topics. The theoretical as well as experimental advances continue to be rapid, and have in fact been accelerated by many novel innovations. 

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