Molecular spectroscopy

Plan of the lecture:

1. The chemical molecule and macroscopic molecular set
   1. Symmetry, conformation, and molecular dynamics
   2. Quantum energy and its partition
   3. Statistical mechanics of the molecular set
2. Basic concepts of interaction between the molecules and electromagnetic radiation
   1. Absorption, emission, and scattering
   2. Electric dipol moment of a spectroscopic transition; selection rules
3. Molecular spectrum and its detection; Lasers and Fourier spectroscopy
4. Microvawe absorption, infrared absorption and Raman spectra of diatomic molecules
5. Microvawe absorption, infrared absorption and Raman spectra of polyatomic molecules;
   1. Normal modes
   2. Characteristic (group) frequencies
   3. Coriolis interaction
6. Resonance Raman effect; Franck-Condon rule
7. Electronic spectra of di- and polyatomic molecules
   1. UV-VIS absorption; chromofore; vibronic coupling
   2. Fluorescence and fosforescence
   3. Circular (CD) and linear (LD) dichroism
8. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)
   1. Classic and quantum description of the nucleus and nuclear set in magnetic field
   2. Chemical shift and scalar coupling
   3. Nuclear relaxation
   4. Overhauser effect
   5. Multidimensional NMR and product operator formalism
   6. Applications of NMR
9. Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR)

Bibliography:

1. P.W. Atkins, Molecular Quantum Mechanics, 1970 Oxford University Press
2. W. Demtroder, Laser Spectroscopy, 1988 Springer-Verlag
3. T. Evans, Biomolecular NMR Spectroscopy, 1995 Oxford University Press