MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Chemistry 5.76
Spring 1978
Take Home Examination
due May 19, 1978
(Late papers will not be accepted)
This is an open book, open note, unlimited time examination. I expect that you will discuss the listed
articles with each other and with me.
Select one of the following research articles:
1. M. Bixon and J. Jortner, “Intramolecular Radiationless Transitions”, J. Chem. Phys. 48, 715 (1968).
2. D. L. Rousseau and P. F. Williams, “Resonance Raman Scattering of Light from a Diatomic Molecule”,
J. Chem. Phys. 64, 3519 (1976).
3. J. N. Murrell and J. M. Taylor, “Predissociation in Diatomic Spectra with Special Reference to the
Schumann-Runge Bands of O2”, Mol. Phys. 16, 609 (1969).
4. R. N. Zare, “Molecular Level Crossing Spectroscopy”, J. Chem. Phys. 45, 4510 (1966) and Accts.
Chem. Res. 4, 361 (1976).
5. W. M. Gelbart and K. F. Freed, “Intramolecular Perturbations and the Quenching of Luminescence
in Small Molecules,” Chem. Phys. Lett. 18, 470 (1973).
6. R. W. Field, “Assignment of the Lowest 3Π and 1Π States of CaO, SrO, and BaO”, J. Chem. Phys.
60, 2400 (1974).
7. H. E. Radford and H. P. Broida, “Rotational Perturbations in CN. Zero Field Theory, Optical Zeeman
Effect, and Microwave Transition Probabilities”, Phys. Rev. 128, 231 (1962) and “Chemical and
Magnetic Enhancement of Perturbed Lines in the Violet Spectrum of CN”, J. Chem. Phys. 38, 644
(1963).
8. R. E. Drullinger and R. N. Zare, “Optical Pumping of Molecules”, J. Chem. Phys. 51, 5532 (1969).
9. S. R. Hartmann and E. L. Hahn, “Nuclear Double Resonance in the Rotating Frame”, Phys. Rev.
128, 2042 (1962).
10. A. M. Portis, “Electronic Structure of F Centers: Saturation of the Electron Spin Resonance”, Phys.
Rev. 91, 1071 (1953).
Your discussion of one of these papers should consist of two parts:
I. A brief (500–1000 words) summary. DO NOT simply rephrase the abstract. Focus on the aspect
that seems to you to be most unexpected, elegant, or interesting.
