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This is a book about the spectra and dynamics of small molecules in the gas phase. It is emphatically not a textbook. Despite their size, small molecules at high excitation are capable of behaving badly. They do not follow the simple energy level and transition intensity patterns codified in textbooks. Sometimes the transgressions are subtle and sometimes they are catastrophic. For me, the deviations from standard patterns are much more beautiful and instructive than the patterns themselves.
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Field, R.W. (2015). Introduction. In: Spectra and Dynamics of Small Molecules. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 900. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15958-4_1
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