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Small-Molecule Spectroscopy and Dynamics

Chemistry MIT CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 38 lectures

The goal of this course is to illustrate the spectroscopy of small molecules in the gas phase: quantum mechanical effective Hamiltonian models for rotational, vibrational, and electronic structure; transition selection rules and relative intensities; diagnostic patterns and experimental methods for the assignment of non-textbook spectra; breakdown of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation (spectroscopic perturbations); the stationary phase approximation; nondegenerate and quasidegenerate perturbation theory (van Vleck transformation); qualitative molecular orbital theory (Walsh diagrams); the notation of atomic and molecular spectroscopy.

Syllabus

  1. 1 Course Introduction
  2. 2 Lecture 1
  3. 3 Lecture 2
  4. 4 Lecture 3
  5. 5 Lecture 4
  6. 6 Lecture 5
  7. 7 Lecture 6
  8. 8 Lecture 7
  9. 9 Lecture 8
  10. 10 Lecture 9
  11. 11 Lecture 10
  12. 12 Lecture 11
  13. 13 Lecture 12
  14. 14 Lecture 13
  15. 15 Lecture 14
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  20. 20 Lecture 19
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  27. 27 Lecture 26
  28. 28 Lecture 27
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  30. 30 Lecture 29
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  37. 37 Lecture 37
  38. 38 Lecture 38

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