The last fifteen years have seen a veritable explosion of clusters research brought about by two relatively new experimental advances - supersonic jet expansions creating cold high density atomic and molecular beams, and laser (mass and optical) spectroscopy. The success and power of these two techniques, taken together and applied to the study of atomic and molecular clusters, are described in this volume. The field of cluster study is a very broad one, propelled by both the potential application of cluster results to many bulk systems and interest in clusters as systems in their own right. The eclectic nature of the collection of chapters in this book reflects well the diverse nature of this area of chemical physics.
The book begins with one of the most suprising and controversial of recent cluster studies - those for the carbon system. As with bulk and molecular carbon chemistry, the chemistry of carbon clusters seems to be unique. Nonmetallic main group clusters also form a very interesting set of systems and their structure and chemistry are as fascinating as they are varied. Diatomic/atomic clusters and small polyatomic clusters demonstrate an incredible amount of spectroscopic detail and thus structure, dynamics and, in some instances, chemistry can be characterized for them. Clusters of larger molecules also yield information on structure, dynamics and chemistry but can in addition give information on changes in molecular structure with degree of solvation. As clusters become larger they begin to assume the properties of bulk systems. Finally, some chapters discuss the nucleation and growth of clusters, each from its own unique perspective and point of view. Current efforts involve following these processes from the formation of a two-molecule cluster to liquid drop.
Atomic and Molecular Clusters provides the researcher with a survey of the current status of the field and will also be of interest to the student who may discover a new and exciting area of investigation.
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This volume essentially provides an extensive survey of the current position in a new and fascinating research field.
Journal of Molecular Structure
...a valuable and up-to-date survey of the interesting areas of cluster chemistry. It is hereby highly recommended to all kinds of chemists, both specialists and nonspecialists in this area.
Structural Chemistry
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1. Supersonic Carbon Cluster Beams. Laser vaporization cluster beams and abundance distributions. Reactivity studies. Photophysics of the positive cluster ions. FT-ICR experiments. UPS of carbon clusters. Optical spectroscopy of C60. One parting question. 2. Main Group Clusters: A Review. Cluster sources and detection. Cluster distributions. Ionization, fragmentation, and thermodynamics. Chemistry. Theoretical calculations of cluster structures and energies. Structure and spectroscopy of cluster species. Concluding remarks. 3. The Structures of Weakly Bound Complexes as Elucidated by Microwave and Infrared Spectroscopy. 4. Infrared Predissociation Spectroscopy of van der Waals Clusters. Experimental techniques. High resolution spectroscopy. Theory of vibrations in small clusters. Ab-initio calculations and normal modes. Frozen field local mode methods. Quantum simulation of the clusters. Theory of water clusters. Vibrational relaxation and predissociation. Theory of vibrational predissociation. Infrared spectroscopy of large clusters. Simulation of large clusters. Conclusions. 5. Rotational Rainbows, Quantum Interference, Intramolecular Vibrational Relaxation and Chemical Reactions: All in Rare Gas-Halogen Molecules. Brief overview of halogen spectroscopy. Brief review of experimental methods. Structures and bond energies. Vibrational predissociation dynamics: experimental results. Quantum mechanical calculations of vibrational dynamics. Classical and semiclassical models for vibrational predissociation. Reactive half-collisions. Larger clusters. Condensed phases. Epilog. 6. Photoabsorption and Photoionization of Clusters. Experimental methods. Spectroscopy. Photoionization. 7. Organic Solute/Solvent Clusters and Solute Dimers. Experimental methods. Computer simulation, modeling and calculations. Static properties of solute solvent clusters. Spectroscopy and calculations. Solute dimers. Dynamical properties of solute/solvent clusters and dimers - intramolecular vibrational redistribution (IVR) and vibrational predissociation (VP). Chemical reactions in van der Waals clusters. Nucleation and growth of clusters. Conclusions and perspectives. 8. Spectroscopy and Excitation Dynamics of Large Molecular Clusters. Theoretical perspectives on neat molecular clusters. Experimental methodology. Neat molecular clusters. Doped molecular clusters. Spectroscopy of cluster ions. Outlook for advances in molecular cluster spectroscopy. (Chapters also include an introduction and references). Index.
