Preface ....................................................... vii
Editor ......................................................... ix
Contributors ................................................... xi
Chapter 1 Vibrational Echo Chemical Exchange Spectroscopy ...... 1
Michael D. Fayer
Chapter 2 Ultrafast Vibrational Dynamics of Hydrogen-Bonded
Dimers and Base Pairs ............................... 35
Thomas Elsaesser
Chapter 3 Water Reorientation and Ultrafast Infrared
Spectroscopy ........................................ 73
Damien Laage and James T. Hynes
Chapter 4 Femtosecond Vibrational Spectroscopy of Aqueous
Systems ............................................. 99
H.J. Bakker and M. Bonn
Chapter 5 Solvation Dynamics of Vibrational States in
Hydrogen-Bonding Solvents: Vibrational Frequency
Photon Echo Method ................................. 149
Kaoru Ohta, Jumpei Tayama, Shinji Saito, and
Keisuke Tominaga
Chapter 6 Polarization Anisotropy Effects for Degenerate
Vibrational Levels ................................. 169
Daniel G. Kuroda and Robin M. Hochstrasser
Chapter 7 Polarization-Controlled Chiroptical and 2D
Optical Spectroscopy ............................... 203
Kyung-Won Kwak, Kwang-Hee Park, and Minhaeng Cho
Chapter 8 Ultrafast Infrared Probes of Electronic Processes
in Materials ....................................... 239
John B. Asbury
Chapter 9 Vibrational Energy and Molecular Thermometers in
Liquids: Ultrafast IR-Raman Spectroscopy ........... 269
Brandt C. Pein and Dana D. Dlott
Chapter 10 Ultrafast Processes at Liquid Interfaces
Investigated with Time-Resolved Sum Frequency
Generation ......................................... 305
Yi Rao, Benjamin Doughty, Nicholas J. Turro, and
Kenneth B. Eisenthal
Chapter 11 Energy Transport in Molecules Studied by
Relaxation-Assisted 2D IR Spectroscopy ............. 333
Igor V. Rubtsov
Chapter 12 An Introduction to Protein 2D IR Spectroscopy ...... 361
Carlos R. Baiz, Mike Reppert, and Andrei Tokmakoff
Chapter 13 Quasi-Particle Approach to 2D IR Spectra of
Vibrational Excitons in Biomolecules: Molecular
Dynamics versus Stochastic Simulation Protocols .... 405
Cyril Falvo, František Šanda, and Shaul Mukamel
Chapter 14 Ultrafast Infrared Spectroscopy of Amylin Solution
and Fibrils ........................................ 437
L. Wang, L.E. Buchanan, E.B. Dunkelberger, J.J. de
Pablo, M. T. Zanni, and J. L. Skinner
Index ......................................................... 461
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