Welcome to the new version of CaltechAUTHORS. Login is currently restricted to library staff. If you notice any issues, please email coda@library.caltech.edu
Published March 12, 1993 | public
Journal Article

Molecular Interactions and Hydrogen Bond Tunneling Dynamics: Some New Perspectives

Abstract

The recent development of tunable far-infrared lasers and other high-resolution spectroscopic probes of weakly bound clusters is having a significant impact on our understanding of intermolecular forces and on the complex quantum tunneling dynamics that occur in hydrogen-bonded systems. Far-infrared studies of a variety of interactions are discussed, including several prototypical water-hydrophobe complexes, the water trimer, and the ammonia dimer. Particular attention is paid to the inversion of spectroscopic data to yield detailed intermolecular potential energy surfaces. Investigations of nonpairwise additivity are also described.

Additional Information

© 1993 American Association for the Advancement of Science. We thank the many graduate students and postdoctoral fellows at Berkeley and Caltech whose efforts made this research possible. The FIRVRTS program at Berkeley is supported by NSF grant CHE-9123335, and at Caltech by NSF grant CHE-8957228. G.A.B. also acknowledges support from the David and Lucille Packard and Alfred P. Sloan Foundations.

Additional details

Created:
August 22, 2023
Modified:
October 19, 2023