Transition-state dynamics

Zewail A H 1991 Femtosecond transition-state dynamics Faraday Discuss. Chem. Soc. 91 207-37... 

Voth G A and Hochstrasser R M 1996 Transition state dynamics and relaxation processes in solutions a frontier of physical chemistry 100 13034M9... 

Spectroscopic properties of [Ru(bpy)3] " ", and the effects of varying the diimine ligands in [Ru(bpy)3 L ] + (L = diimine) on the electronic spectra and redox properties of these complexes have been reviewed. The properties of the optical emission and excitation spectra of [Ru(bpy)3] +, [Ru(bpy)2(bpy-d )] + and [Ru(bpy-d )3] " " and of related Os, Rh , and Pt and Os species have been analyzed and trends arising from changes in the metal d or MLCT character in the lowest triplet states have been discussed. A study of the interligand electron transfer and transition state dynamics in [Ru(bpy)3] " " has been carried out. The results of X-ray excited optical luminescence and XANES studies on a fine powder film of [Ru(bpy)3][C104]2 show that C and Ru localized excitation enhances the photoluminescence yield, but that of N does not. 

Fig. 5 (Top) Step-wise ionic solvation and dependence of rates on the cluster size, n. (Bottom) Transition-state dynamics on the ground state surface of cyclooctatetraene...

An approach that makes it possible to study directly the transition-state dynamics of charge transfer (CT) reactions was recently reported by our group. The entire system is prepared on a reactive potential energy sur-... 

Zewail, A. H. Femtosecond transition-state dynamics, Faraday Disc.Chem.Soc., 91 (1991) 207-237. 

R.T. Skodje, R. Sadeghi, H. Koppel, J.L. Krause, Spectral quantization of transition state dynamics for the three-dimensional H+H2 reaction, J. Chem. Phys. 101 (1994) 1725. 

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