F~mtochemistryand FemtobiologyUltrafast Dynamics in Molecular Science

Abderrazzak Douha l

Jesus Santamaria

1. Gas Phase and Clusters

Orientation Dynamics and Molecular Structures : From Gas Phaseto Condensed Media

3J. S. Baskin and A . H. Zewai l

Dynamics of Gas Phase Clusters : Insights into Size and Solvatio nEffects on Electronic Relaxation and Hydrogen Transfer

2 1E. S. Wisniewski, B . D. Leskiw, S. M Hurley,T. E. Dermota, D. P. Hydutsky, K L. Knappenberger,Jr. M A. Hershberger and A. W. Castleman, Jr.

Predissociation Dynamics of Acetylene Rydberg States

42S. Zamith, V. Blanchet, B. Girard, J Norin, J. Mauritsson,A. L 'Huillier, J. Andersson, S. Sorensen, I. Hjelte,O. Bjorneholm and D. Gauyacq

IR Multiphoton Dissociation of Gas-Phase Metal Carbonyls byFemtosecond Pulses at 5µm

53L. Windhorn, T Witte, D. Proch, M Motzkus, K L . Kompaand W. Fuss

Observation of Scattering Resonances in the H+D 2 Reaction :Direct Probe of the HD2 Transition-State Geometry

6 1F. J. Aoiz, L. Banares, J. F. Castillo, D. Sokolovski,F. Fernandez Alonso, B. D. Bean, J. D. Ayers,A. E. Pomerantz and R N. Zare

Femtosecond Interferometry with Molecular Wavefunctions -Experiments on the Quantum Dynamics of Rovibronic Motion

73F. Milota, A. Tortschanoff, Ch. Warmuth, W. Jakubetz andH. F. Kauffmann

Excitonic Coupling in Bichromophoric Molecules :Conformational Information from 2D Optical Photo nEcho - A Theoretical Study

8 1V. Szöcs, T. Peilszegi, V. Luke§, A. Tortschanoff andH. F. Kauffinann

Femtosecond Coincidence Imaging of Dissociative Ionizatio nDynamics in CF 3I

90A. M Res, C. C. Hayden and M. H M Janssen

High Resolution Femtosecond CARS Spectroscopy

99H. M. Frey, P. Beaud, T Lang and M. Motzkus

Tunneling in 5-Methyltropolone : Coupling Between Interna lRotation of Methyl Group and Proton Transfer

105O. Vendrell, M Moreno and J. M Lluch

Femtosecond Photodissociation of the Ethyl Radical C 2H5

116G. Knopp, P. Beaud, P. Radi, M Tulej and T Gerbe r

Femtosecond Time - Resolved Analysis of the Laser-InitiatedIntracluster Reaction in Ba . . .FCH3

12 1V. Stert, H-H Ritze, W. Radloff, K Gasmi andA. Gonzalez- Urena

First Experimental Observations of Rydberg Series in C60

126M Boyle, K Hoffmann, C. P. Schulz, I. V. Herteland E. E. B. Campbell

Testing the Applicability of Classical Mechanics to Describe th eUltraviolet Photolisys of Hydrogen Bonded - Clusters

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J. C. Juanes-Marcos, R Prosmiti and A . Garcia-Vela

The Dynamics of the Energized SC 3 H Radical : A TheoreticalStudy of the S+1-C3 H Reaction

14 1E. Martinez-Nünez, J. R Flores and F. J. Gomez

2. Liquids

New Theoretical Ideas for an Old Problem : Excited State Proto nTransfer in Solution

15 7G. Granucci, T. -H Tran-Thi, Th. Gustavsson, P . Millie

and J. T Hynes

Ultrafast Dynamics of Hydrogen Bonds in the Liquid Phase :Vibrational Quantum Beats and Dephasing

169J. Stenger, D. Madsen, J. Dreyer, E. T. J. Nibbering,P . Hamm and T. Elsaesser

Femtosecond Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy of Aqueous Solutions

186H J. Bakker and M. F. Kropman

Ultrafast Excited State Proton Transfer : Reactive Dynamics byMultidimensional Wavepacket Motion

202S. Lochbrunner, K Stock, V. De Waele and E. Riedle

Ultrafast Dynamics of Photoacid-Base Reaction

21 3B. Cohen and D. Huppert

Breaking, Making and Rotating Chemical Bonds o fI'-Hydroxy-2'-Acetonaphthone in Solutions and in Nanocavities

225J. A. Organero, L . Santos and A . Douhal

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Vibrational Relaxation and Energy Equilibration in Liquid Water

234A. J. Lock, S. Woutersen and H. J. Bakker

First Observation of the Whole Bell-Shaped Energy Gap Law fo rPhotoinduced Intramolecular Charge Separation Reactions

240H. Chosrowjan, N. Mataga, Y. Shibata, N Yoshida

and A. Osuka

Liquid Phase Photochemistry of the Di- and PolyhalogenatedAlkanes Containing Iodine : Femtosecond Transient AbsorptionStudy of the Photodissociation and In-Cage Isomerization

247A. N. Tarnovsky, M Wall, M. Rasmusson, V. Sundström

and E. rAkesson

Ultrafast Dynamics of Solvated Electrons in Liquid Ammoni aSolutions

26 1A.-N Unterreiner, J. Lindner and P. Vöhringer

Vibrational Coherence and Solvent-Induced Non-Adiabati cCouplings

270C. R Gonzalez, S. Fernandez Alberti, J. Echave, J. Helbingand M. Chergui

A New Analysis of the Solvent-Induced Charge Transfer in ADM Aby Subpicosecond Spectroscopy

280M. M. Martin, P . Plaza, P. Changenet-Barret andA . Siemiarczuk

Breakdown of Hydrodynamic Behavior : Solute RotationalDynamics from the Small-Molecule to the Polymer Limit

289M. M. Somoza, M I. Sluch and M. A. Berg

Femto- and Picosecond Fluorescence Dynamics of Merocyanin e540: Experiments and Modeling

298I. Bugar, D. Chorvät Jr., T. Pälszegi, P. Mach, J. Urbanand V. Szöcs

Photodissociation of Halobenzenes in Solution

307fir

N Lascoux, M Rasmusson, R. Lindh, A. N. Tarnovsky,M Kadi, O. Kühn, V. Sundström and E. Akesson

Dynamics of S 2 Fluorescence Quenching and of ChargeRecombination in the Resulting Ion Pair

31 4L. Engeli, A . Morandeira, P. A . Muller and E. Vauthey

Analysis and Control of Condensed-Phase Photochemica lReactions : C1F in Ar

32 1M Bargheer, J. Pietzner, P . Dietrich and N Schwentner

Ultrafast Femtosecond Charge Transfer : Switching from Adiabaticto Nonadiabatic Dynamics by Small Structural Changes

328S. Lochbrunner, K Stock, T. Fiebig, E. Pandurski andE. Riedle

3. Coherent Control and New Techniques

From an Oriented Racemate via Torsionally or Electronically Excite dStates to Pure Enantiomers : Design of Pump-Dump Laser Pulses

33 7K Hoki, D. Kröner and J Manz

Adaptive Quantum Control of Femtochemistry in the Gas an dLiquid Phase

354T. Brixner and G. Gerber

Phonon-Polaritons : Controlled Propagation and Amplification

377T. Feurer, N. S. Stoyanov, J C. Vaughan, D . W. Wardand K. A. Nelson

Analysis and Feedback-Control of Ultrafast Fragmentatio nProcesses in CPM„ (CO) 3

390C. Lupulescu, P. Rosendo-Francisco, S. Vajda and L. Wöste

Strong Field Coherent Control in Molecules

399B. J. Pearson, D. S. Morris, P. H. Bucksbaum and

T C. Weinacht

Vibrational Population Control in Liquid-Phase Metal Carbonyls

409V. D. Kleiman, J. S. Melinger and E. J. Heilweil

Adiabatic Regimes of Population Transfer in Molecular Systerits

422I. R. Sold, B. Y. Chang, J. Santamaria and V S. Malinovsky

Ultrafast Laser-Driven Hydrogen Bond Dynamics

43 8H Naundorf and O. Kühn

Towards Structural Dynamics Research with Ultrashort Puls eLasers and Synchrotron Radiation

449C. Bressler, M. Saes, M Chergui, D. Grolimund and R . Abela

Some Prospects of EUV-X-Ray Femtosecond Pulses inChemical Physics

459V. S. Letokhov

Controlling the Vibration and Dissociation Dynamics in Triatomi cAlkaline Clusters

472S. Vajda, C. Lupulescu, A . Bartelt, F. Budzyn,P. Rosendo-Francisco and L. Wöste

Feedback Control of Alkali Dimers With Sinusoidal Phas eModulated Fs-Pulses : Can We Learn From the AcquiredPulse Shapes?

48 1A. Bartelt, C. Lupulescu, S. Vajda and L. Wöste

Experimental and Theoretical Study of Quantum Control byChirped Pulse Excitation

494D. Huppert, J. Segal and B . D. Fainberg

Adapting Optimal Control Theory to a Variety of Molecula rApplications

505R. De Vivie-Riedle, T Hornung, A . Hofmann and C. Tesch

Preparing Arbitrary Superposition States With Minimun Numbe rof Laser Pulses : The Carp Method

51 4B. Y. Chang, I. R. Solci, J. Santamaria and V S. Malinovsky

Performance of Evolutionary Strategies in Coherent Control Studies

523D. Zeidler, S. Frey, K-L. Kompa and M. Motzkus

Mode-Selective Excitation of Polydiacetylene by Feedback-Controlle dPulse Shaping

53 1D. Zeidler, S. Frey, W. Wohlleben, M Motzkus, F. Busch,T Chen, W Kiefer and A . Materny

A Method for Robust Solutions in the Weak-Intensity Laser Contro lof Multilevel Systems

53 9A. Lami and F. Santoro

Effects of Electronic Coherence on Intense Ultrashort Chirped Puls eExcitation of Molecules Coupled with a Dissipative Environment

550B. D. Fainberg and V. A. Gorbunov

Effect of Coherent Transients on a Pump-Probe Time-ResolvedSignal

559S. Zamith, J. Degert, S. Stock, B. De Beauvoir, V. Blanchet,M A. Bouchene and B. Girard

Femtosecond Pump Probe Photoelectron-Spectroscopy o nElectronic States of Nat : A Tool to Study Ultrafast Contro lof Chemical Reactions

56 8M Wollenhaupt, A. Assion, O. Bazhan, D. Liese,C. Sarpe-Tudoran and T. Baumert

Amplification of Shaped Ultrashort Pulses in the Visible Spectra lRegime by a Two-Stage Noncollinear Optical Parametric Process

575E. Schreiber, H-S. Tan and W. S. Warren

Simulation of Best Fit Parameters for Femtosecond Pulse Generationin Figure of Eight Laser

583R. J. Rajesh, R. Radhan and P. B. Bisht

Femtosecond Pump-Probe Photo-Ion Velocity Map Imaging

59 1W. G. Roeterdink and M. H M Janssen

Low-Frequency Molecular Vibrations in Organic Molecule sStudied By THZ-TDS

597P. Plochocka, M Walther, B. Fischer and P. Jepsen

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Optimal Control Theory of Molecular Dynamics : A ComparativeApproach to Characterize the Complexity of the Control Task

604T.Mancal and V. May

4. Nanostructures, Polymers, Surfaces and Interfaces

Coherent Excitation of Acoustic Phonon Modes in Meta lNanoparticles and Nanorods

61 1G. V. Hartland

Sub -5-fs Spectroscopy of Several Molecular Systems

624_T Kobayashi

The Complex Puzzle of Optical Femto-Dynamics inPoly(P-Phenylenevinylene)- Hidden Coherences an dEnergy-Dispersive Population Transfer

645

J. Sperling F. Milota, A. Tortschanoff, Ch. Warmuth and

H. F. Kauffmann

Surface Femtochemistry : Ultrafast Reaction Dynamics Drivenby Hot Electron Mediated Reaction Pathways

653

D. N. Denzler, Ch . Hess, S. Funk, G. Ertl, M Bonn,

Ch . Frischkorn and M. Wolf

Pump-Probe Spectroscopy of a Trinuclear Transition Meta l

Mixed-Valence Complex : Solvent Dependence of BackElectron Transfer Rate

664

D. F. Watson, A . B. Bocarsly and E. Schreiber

Probing Solvation Dynamics at Aqueous Lipid-Membran eInterfaces With 3-Pulse Photon-Echo Peak-Shifts

674

H Bürsing, S. Kundu and P. Vöhringer

Ultrafast Transient Second Harmonic Generation From Oxazin eDyes at the Air/Water Interface

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D. A. Steinhurst, A. P. Baronavski andJ. C. Owrutsky

Light Driven Multistep Electron Transfer in a Tyrosine-Ruthenium -

Complex Anchored to TiO 2 Nanoparticles

686

R. Ghanem, J. Pan, Y. Xu, J. Andersson, T. Polivka, L. Sunand V. Sundström

Photoinduced Heterogeneous Electron Transfer Modulated by aVibrational Wavepacket

696

C. Zimmermann, R . Eichberger, S. Ramakrishna, W. Storckand F. Willig

Phonon Confinement in Ultrathin Metallic Films : Interpretation o fRecent Femtosecond Pump Probe Experimental Data

702

A. Melikyan and H. Minassian

5. Biological Systems

The Carotenoid S, State in LH2 Complexes of Purple Bacteria

71 1T. Polivka, D. Zigmantas, J. L . Herek, R . J. Cogdell,and V. Sundström

Investigation of the Carbonmoxide and Oxy Hemoglobin I Complexe sFrom Lucina Pectinata by Femtosecond Transient Absorption

720C. Ramos, E. Ramirez, C. Ruiz, R. Pietri, J. Lopez Garriga,J. Helbing and M. Chergu i

Femtosecond Studies of Protein-Ligand Hydrophobic Binding an dDynamics : Human Serum Albumin

73 1A. Douhal, D. P. Zhong and A . H. Zewail

Two Dimensional Vibrational Spectroscopy of Antanamide ;a Simulation Study

742S. M Park, C. Scheurer and S. Mukamel

Ultra Fast Lasers to Identify Molecular Biological Structures

755L. El-Nadi, L . El-Houty and Y. E. Gamal

Primary Processes in the Photoisomerization of Bacteriorhodopsi nStudied by Femtosecond Infrared Spectroscopy

764J. Herbst, K Heyne and R. Diller

Mutation-photophysics Relationship in Intrinsicall yFluorescent Proteins

774A. A. Heikal, S. T Hess, E. D. Sheets and W. W. Web b

Energy Transfer from Supramolecular Assemblies of Syntheti cZinc Chlorins to Attached Energy Traps

782V. I. Prokhorenko, M Katterle, A . R. Holzwarth,K Schaffner, T. Miyatake and H Tamiaki

Ultrafast Excited State Dynamics of Multimorphyrin Arrays

789A. Morandeira, E. Vauthey, O. Mongin and A . Gossauer

The 7-Azaindole Base Pair Phototautomerization Revisited : An abInitio Study of the Potential Energy Surface

796M Moreno, J. M Lluch and A . Douhal

Coherent Deactivation Process of Pseudoazurin

808Y. Nagasawa, S. Nakashima, C. Egami, T. Okada,T. Kohzuma, R. Matukura .and S. Yanagisawa

Three-Pulse Two-Colour Photon Echo and Transient Gratin gStudies of Myoglobin

81 5C. N. Lincoln, L. V. Dao, R . M Lowe, W. J Rowlandsand P. Hannaford

Microscopic Theory of Exciton Annihilation : Application tothe LH2 Antenna System

820V. May and B. Brüggemann

Solvent Effect on the Dynamics of an Anesthetic Analogous

824L. Tormo, J. A. Organero and A. Douhal

Author Index

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