Department of Chemistry, University of California at Irvine, CA 92697‐2025 (USA), Fax: (+1)?949‐824‐4759
Abstract:
Good vibrations : The vibrational response of complex molecules to sequences of infrared pulses provides novel femtosecond snapshots of their structure and dynamics. This technique, which is the optical analogue of multidimensional NMR spectroscopy, gives correlation plots of motions during controlled time intervals between pulses that are applied to study protein folding, chirality, hydrogen‐bonding, phospholipid membranes, and chemical exchange.
