Hydrogen Bonding and Transfer in the Excited State

This book gives an extensive description of the state-of-the-art in
research on excited-state hydrogen bonding and hydrogen transfer in
recent years.

Initial chapters present both the experimental and theoretical
investigations on the excited-state hydrogen bonding structures and
dynamics of many organic and biological chromophores. Following
this, several chapters describe the influences of the excited-state
hydrogen bonding on various photophysical processes and
photochemical reactions, for example: hydrogen bonding effects on
fluorescence emission behaviors and photoisomerization; the role of
hydrogen bonding in photosynthetic water splitting; photoinduced
electron transfer and solvation dynamics in room temperature ionic
liquids; and hydrogen bonding barrier crossing dynamics at
bio-mimicking surfaces. Finally, the book examines experimental and
theoretical studies on the nature and control of excited-state
hydrogen transfer in various systems.

Hydrogen Bonding and Transfer in the Excited State is an
essential overview of this increasingly important field of study,
surveying the entire field over 2 volumes, 40 chapters and 1200
pages. It will find a place on the bookshelves of researchers in
photochemistry, photobiology, photophysics, physical chemistry and
chemical physics.

Auteur
Ke-Li Han, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, China. Guang-Jiu Zhao, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, China.

Texte du rabat

This book gives an extensive description of the state-of-the-art in research on excited-state hydrogen bonding and hydrogen transfer in recent years.

Initial chapters present both the experimental and theoretical investigations on the excited-state hydrogen bonding structures and dynamics of many organic and biological chromophores. Following this, several chapters describe the influences of the excited-state hydrogen bonding on various photophysical processes and photochemical reactions, for example: hydrogen bonding effects on fluorescence emission behavior and photoisomerization; the role of hydrogen bonding in photosynthetic water splitting; photoinduced electron transfer and solvation dynamics in room temperature ionic liquids; and hydrogen bonding barrier crossing dynamics at bio-mimicking surfaces. Finally, the book examines experimental and theoretical studies on the nature and control of excited-state hydrogen transfer in various systems.

Hydrogen Bonding and Transfer in the Excited State is an essential overview of this increasingly important field of study, surveying the entire field over 2 volumes, 39 chapters and 1000 pages. It will find a place on the bookshelves of researchers in photochemistry, photobiology, photophysics, physical chemistry and chemical physics.

"...I commend the reading of this monograph to all chemists."
Professor Richard N. Zare
Chair of the Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, USA

"...The book is sure to become a classic in the field."
Professor Donald G. Truhlar
Regents Professor of Chemistry, Chemical Physics, Nanoparticle Science and Engineering, and Scientific Computation, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, USA

"...Overall, the book represents a good balance of experimental and computational research. The book provides an excellent introduction to an important contemporary research topic for graduate students as well as for experienced researchers."
Professor Wolfgang Domcke
Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany

"...This will be an excellent text book and reference material for graduate students and research scientists."
Professor Kankan Bhattacharyya
Senior Editor of The Journal of Physical Chemistry, Director Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India

"...This is the first book to review the excited-state hydrogen bonding, detailing the great variety of consequences found. It provides new insights into the very nature of the forces that create secondary structure in chemistry and biology."
Professor Jeffrey R. Reimers
ARC Professorial Research Fellow, School of Chemistry F11, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Contenu
Preface. List of Contributors.

Volume I.

1. Vibrational Dynamics of the Hydrogen Bonds in Nucleic Acid Base Pairs (Yun-An Yan and Oliver Kühn).

1.1 Introduction.

1.2 Hydrogen Bonding and Nonlinear Infrared Spectroscopy.

1.3 Correlated Vibrational Dynamics of an Adenine-Uracil Derivative in Solution.

1.4 Conclusion.

References.

2. Vibrational Energy Relaxation Dynamics of XH Stretching Vibrations of Aromatic Molecules in the Electronic Excited State (Takayuki Ebata).

2.1 Introduction.

2.2 IR Spectra of 2-Naphthol and Its H-Bonded Clusters in S1 State.

2.3 VER Dynamics of Bare 2-Naphthol.

2.4 VER Dynamics of H-Bonded Clusters of 2-Naphthol.

2.5 Comparison of the Cis®Trans Barrier Height between S0 and S1.

2.6 Conclusion.

References.

3. The Hydrogen-Bond Basicity in the Excited State. Concept and Applications (Attila Demeter).

3.1 Introduction.

3.2 Experiment.

3.3 Result and Discussion.

3.3.1 Absorption and Fluorescence Spectra of the Complexed Species.

3.3.2 Hydrogen-Bond Basicity of the Ground and Singlet Excited State.

3.3.3 Reaction Rate of Hydrogen-Bonded Complex Formation In Excited State.

3.3.4 Solvatochromism of DMAP and Its Singly Complexed Derivative: Estimation of the Dipole Moment of A Singlet Excited Complexes.

3.3.5 Triplet State Properties of the Complexed Species.

3.4 Summary.

Acknowledgement.

References.

4. SoluteSolvent Hydrogen Bond Formation in the Excited State. Experimental and theoretical Evidences (Iulia Matei, Sorana Ionescu, Mihaela Hillebrand).

4.1 Introduction.

4.2 The Prerequisite Conditions for Hydrogen Bond Formation.

4.3 Diagnosis Criteria and Quantitative Treatment of the Hydrogen Bonds.

4.4 Design of the Experiments.

4.5 Theoretical Modelling of the H Bonds.

4.6 Conclusions.

References.

5. Electronic Excited State Structures and Properties of Hydrated Dna Bases and Base Pairs (Manoj K. Shukla and Jerzy Leszczynski).

5.1 Introduction.

5.2 Ground State Structures of Nucleic Acid Bases and Base Pairs.

5.3 Excited State Structures of Nucleic Acid Bases.

5.4 Excited States of Base Pairs.

5.5 Excited State Dynamics and Nonradiative Decays.

5.6 Conclusion.

Acknowledgement.

References.

6. Insight from Singlet into Triplet Excited-State Hydrogen Bonding Dynamics in Solution (Guang-Jiu Zhao and Ke-Li Han).

6.1 Introduction.

6.2 Theoretical Methods.

6.3 Results and Discussions.

6.4 Conclusion.

Acknowledgement.

References.

7. Probing Dynamic Heterogeneity in Nano-Confined Systems: Femtosecond Excitation Wavelength Dependence and FCS (Shantanu Dey, Ujjwal Mandal, Aniruddha Adhikari, Subhadip Ghosh, and Kankan Bhattacharyya).

7.1 Introduction.

7.2 Solvation Dynamics in Nano-Confined Systems.

7.3 Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET): lex Dependence.

7.4 Excited State Proton Transfer (ESPT).

7.5 Diffusion of Organic Dyes by Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (FCS).

7.6 Conclusions.

Acknowledgement.

References.

8. Fluorescence Studies of the Hydrogen Bonding of Excited State Molecules within Supramolecular Host-Guest Inclusion Complexes (Brian D. Wagner).

8.1 Introduction.

8.2 Hydrogen Bonding Involving Excited States of Fluorescent Probes in Solution.

8.3 Hydrogen Bonding of Excited States of Included Guests.

8.4 Conclusions.

References.

**9. Hydro…