Electro-Optical Resonance Raman Spectroscopy

这项职业发展奖将使Jeanne McHale博士能够进行为期一年的试点研究，开发斯塔克效应的共振拉曼方法。过去的方法使用信息较少的电子光谱方法。这类拉曼研究的结果将提供迄今为止没有的结构资料。麦克海尔博士在拉曼光谱方面开发了一个富有成效的项目，并建造了大部分必要的设备来完成这类工作。这个项目的资助是及时的，因为它将使她在她的研究中建立一个潜在的极其重要的新方向的领导地位。这个提议建立了一个研究电场如何扭曲分子结构的研究项目。这些信息对于理解生物化学现象的许多方面和具有工业意义的催化过程是重要的。

This Career Advancement Award will enable Dr. Jeanne McHale to pursue a one year pilot study developing resonance raman approaches to the Stark effect. Past approaches have used less informative electronic spectroscopic approaches. Results of Raman studies of this kind will provide structural information which has been hitherto unavailable. Dr. McHale has developed a productive program in Raman Spectroscopy and has constructed most of the necessary equipment to do this kind of work. Funding of this project is timely because it will enable her to establish herself at the lead of a potentially extremely important new direction in her research. %%%This proposal builds a research program in the study of how electric fields distort the structures of molecules. Such information is important to the understanding of many aspects of biochemical phenomena and of catalytic processes of industrial significance.