Optical, Electric and Magnetic Properties of Molecules

A Review of the Work of A.D. Buckingham

D.C. Clary, B.J. Orr

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1997
• Print ISBN:
  9780444825964
• eBook ISBN:
  9780080538068
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Atomic & Molecular Physics

This book celebrates the career and scientific accomplishments of Professor David Buckingham, who is due to retire from his Chair at Cambridge University in 1997. The adopted format comprises reprints of a number of David Buckingham's key scientific papers, each one or two of these preceded by a review of the corresponding area of David's wide-ranging research interest. Each reviewer is recognised as an expert in that field of interest and has some close association with David Buckingham, as a scientific colleague and/or a former research student. The book should serve as a distinctive reference source, both retrospective and prospective, for the field of chemical physics with which the name A.D. Buckingham is associated.The editors opted to reprint a majority of early classic Buckingham papers, balanced by some of David Buckingham's more recent publications. Reprinted papers have been placed into a general scientific context that covers prior influences on, and later impacts by, the work nominated for review.

Table of contents

• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• List of contributors
• Foreword
• The career of A.D. Buckingham
• The scientific publications of A.D. Buckingham
• Chapter 1: The electro-optic Kerr effect
• Theoretical Studies of the Kerr Effect I: Deviations from a Linear Polarization Law
• Theoretical Studies of the Kerr Effect II : The Influence of Pressure
• Chapter 2: Field-gradient induced birefringence: a direct route to molecular quadrupole moments
• Addendum: recollections by R.L. Disch
• The quadrupole moment of the carbon dioxide molecule
• Chapter 3: Rayleigh and Raman scattering
• The polarization of laser light scattered by gases
• Determination of derivatives of the polarizability anisotropy in diatomic molecules I. Theoretical considerations on vibration-rotation Raman intensities
• Chapter 4: Forces on nuclei
• RELATION OF THE ELECTRIC FIELD AT A NUCLEUS TO OTHER MOLECULAR PROPERTIES
• Chapter 5: Intermolecular forces and molecular moments
• Chapter 2: Permanent and Induced Molecular Moments and Long-Range Intermolecular Forces
• Chapter 6: Van der Waals molecules
• A model for the geometries of Van der Waals complexes
• Chapter 7: Solvent effects in vibrational spectra
• SOLVENT EFFECTS IN VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY
• Chapter 8: Towards rotationally resolved photoelectron spectroscopy
• Angular distribution and intensity in molecular photoelectron spectroscopy I. General theory for diatomic molecules
• Chapter 9: Nonlinear optics
• Birefringence Resulting from the Application of an Intense Beam of Light to an Isotropic Medium
• Optical second-harmonic generation in gases with a low-power laser
• Chapter 10: Vibrational optical activity
• Introductory Lecture The Theoretical Background to Vibrational Optical Activity
• Chapter 11: NMR chemical shifts: theory and experiment
• Medium Effects in Proton Magnetic Resonance. I. Gases
• Chapter 12: Anisotropic NMR
• Effects of a Strong Electric Field on N.M.R. Spectra The Absolute Sign of the Spin Coupling Constant
• Inside Back Matter