Electro-Optical Resonance Raman Spectroscopy

这项职业发展奖将使珍妮·麦克海尔博士能够进行一项为期一年的试点研究，开发针对斯塔克效应的共振拉曼方法。过去的方法使用的是信息量较小的电子光谱方法。这类拉曼研究的结果将提供迄今为止无法获得的结构信息。麦克黑尔博士开发了一个卓有成效的拉曼光谱学项目，并建造了进行这类工作所需的大部分设备。对这个项目的资助是及时的，因为它将使她能够在她的研究中确立自己在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计划。这些信息对于理解生化现象和具有工业意义的催化过程的许多方面都很重要。

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.