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Since the reports of AMBARTSUMIAN and LETOKHOV in 1974 which demonstrated that the laser-induced dissociation reaction is isotope selective [1], the laser photochemists have started to dream about the possibilities of using this technique in at least two research disciplines. First is the selective laser-heating of a specific chemical bond (or functional group) in a molecule. This would permit one to carry out the selective bond breakage in an unimolecular reaction as well as a positionselective chemical reaction in the bimolecular processes. The second discipline is super-excitation chemical reaction. One hopes that the chemical reaction through a high-energy reaction channel would have different reaction mechanism, and perhaps would be more effective than that which occurs via normal low-energy reaction path.
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Lin, C.T., Valim, J.B., Bertran, C.A. (1981). Chemist’s Dream About IR Laser Photochemistry. In: Guimaraes, W.O.N., Lin, CT., Mooradian, A. (eds) Lasers and Applications. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 26. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-38609-4_19
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