Course Description
General features of molecular spectroscopy. Experimental techniques, selection rules and transition moments , Pure rotation spectra, moments of inertia, the rotational energy levels, rotational transitions, rotational Raman spectra, nuclear statistics and rotational states , The vibrations of diatomic molecules, molecular vibrations, selection rules, anharmonicity, vibration – rotation spectra, vibrational Raman spectra of diatomic molecules. The vibrations of polyatomic molecules, normal modes, Infrared absorption spectra of polyatomic molecules, vibrational Raman spectra of polyatomic molecules, resonance Raman spectra.
The characteristics of electronic transitions, measurements of intensity, the electronic spectra of diatomic molecules, selection rules, Frank-Condon approximation, rotational structure, the electronic spectra of polyatomic molecules, d-d transitions, charge-transfer transitions, circular dichroism , The fates of electronically excited states, fluorescence and phosphorescence, stimulated and spontaneous radiative processes, dissociation and predissociation , Laser action, population inversion, cavity and mode characteristics, pulsed laser, gas laser, exciplex lasers, laser Raman spectroscopy, Doppler broadening, life time broadening, Electron spin resonance spectroscopy, Mossbauer spectroscopy, Photoacoustic spectroscopy.
Course ID: Chem 621
| Credit hours | Theory | Practical | Laboratory | Lecture | Studio | Contact hours | Pre-requisite | 3 | - | - |
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