Purchase of Instrumentation for Nanosecond Time-Resolved Infrared Measurements

这份来自化学研究仪器和设施（CRIF）计划和主要研究仪器（MRI）计划的合同将使俄亥俄州立大学化学系能够获得纳秒时间分辨率红外测量仪器。该仪器将用于研究各种化学系统，包括(a)有机金属化合物、亚烯和补骨脂素的光物理和光化学中的重要中间体；(b)电致发光导电聚合物中的载流子弛豫；(c)人工光合系统中电子传递过程的结构和动力学；(d)电荷转移态对DNA的光裂解。激光系统是一个非常多功能的光谱仪，可用于完成许多光物理和光化学研究。教师将能够在以前无法达到的细节水平上探索基本过程。

This award from the Chemistry Research Instrumentation and Facilities (CRIF) Program and the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program will enable the Department of Chemistry at Ohio State University to acquire instrumentation for nanosecond time-resolved infrared measurements. The instrumentation will be used to study a variety of chemical systems, including (a) important intermediates in the photophysics and photochemistry of organometallic compounds, nitrenes, and psoralens; (b) charge carrier relaxation in electroluminescent conducting polymers; (c) the structure and dynamics of electron transfer processes in artificial photosynthetic systems; and (d) the photocleavage of DNA by charge transfer states. The laser system is an extremely versatile spectrometer that can be used to accomplish numerous photophysical and photochemical studies. The faculty will be able to probe fundamental processes at a level of detail not previously attainable.