| EXPERIMENT # | TOPICS | READINGS |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | IR spectroscopy | Herzberg. Infrared and Raman Spectra of Polyatomic Molecules. New York, NY: D. van Nostrand Company, 1945, pp. 14-19, 280-293, and 378-399. |
 Shoemaker, David P., Carl W. Garland, and Joseph W. Nibler. Experiments in Physical Chemistry. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1995, pp. 404-416. ISBN: 9780070570740. | ||
| 3 | Time-resolved spectroscopy | Berlman, I. B. Energy Transfer Parameters of Aromatic Compounds. New York, NY: Academic Press, 1973. ISBN: 9780120926404. |
| Fleming, G. R. Chemical Applications of Ultrafast Spectroscopy. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1986. ISBN: 9780195036442. | ||
| Forster, Th. "Transfer Mechanisms of Electronic Excitation." Discussions of the Faraday Society 27 (1959). | ||
| Cross, A. J., and G. R. Fleming. "Influence of Inhibitor Binding on the Internal Motions of Lysozyme." Biophysical Journal 50 (1986): 507. (PDF - 1.1 MB)# | ||
| Jordanides, et al. "Solvation Dynamics in Protein Environments Studied by Photon Echo Spectroscopy." Journal of Physical Chemistry B 103 (1999): 7995. | ||
| 4 | Nitrogen scission | Laplaza, C. E., et al. "Dinitrogen Cleavage by Three-Coordinate Molybdenum (III) Complexes: Mechanistic and Structural Data." Journal of the American Chemical Society 118 (1996): 8623-8638. |
| Cummins, C. C. "Reductive Cleavage and Related Reactions Leading to Molybdenum-element Multiple Bonds: New Pathways Offered by Three-coordinate Molybdenum (III)." Chemical Communications (1998): 1777-1786. (PDF)# | ||
| Laplaza, C. E., and C. C. Cummins. "Dinitrogen Cleavage by a Three-Coordinate Molybdenum (III) Complex." Science 268 (1995): 861-863. | ||
| MacKay, B. A., and M. D. Fryzuk. "Dinitrogen Coordination Chemistry: On the Biomimetic Borderlands." Chemical Review 104 (2004): 385-401. |
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Suggested Readings
Below is a list of suggested readings for each experiment. Please note, there are no specified additional readings for Experiment #2.