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Multiphoton Infrared Excitation and Reaction of Organic Compounds

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The field of infrared laser photochemistry has burgeoned in the past several years. Excitation with intense, pulsed, infrared laser radiation has been shown to promote molecules to high vibrational levels of the ground electronic state as the result of the absorption of many infrared photons, frequently in the absence of any collisions. As a consequence, the phenomenon is sometimes referred to as megawatt infrared photochemistry or photochemistry in the electronic ground state. Much interest has centered on laser isotope separation, probing the multiphoton absorption process, and observation of reactions that occur when a molecule finds itself suddenly immersed in a sea of infrared photons.

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