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Faraday Discussion 153: Coherence and Control in Chemistry has now been published online.

Take a look at this exciting volume, which covers the following themes:

• Electronic coherence in biological supramolecular assemblies.
• Non-adiabatic interactions and molecular coherent control.
• Strategies for coherent control.
• Applications of coherent control.
• Strong-field high harmonic generation and alignment control

In the volume you can find all of the papers and fascinating discussion from the conference, which was held in Leeds, UK, in July.

A recommendation from the Chair:

Professor Ben Whitaker (University of Leeds, UK), Chair of Faraday Discussion 153, particularly recommends General Discussion section C because:

“A longstanding result is that coherent control over relative product cross-sections using one-photon excitation should not be possible… However, recent experiments (some of which are presented in this Discussion volume) using phase modulation of weak-field (single photon) excitation demonstrably result in control.  The contradiction with previously held belief and its resolution is debated by experts in the field in the General Discussion of this volume.”

To read the discussion about weak/one photon control, click here.

Highlights from the volume include:

Extracting dynamics of excitonic coherences in congested spectra of photosynthetic light harvesting antenna complexes
Justin R. Caram and Gregory S. Engel
Faraday Discuss., 2011, 153, 93-104

Coherent control of vibrational transitions: Discriminating molecules in mixtures
A. C. W. van Rhijn, A. Jafarpour, M. Jurna, H. L. Offerhaus and J. L. Herek
Faraday Discuss., 2011, 153, 227-235

Coherently-controlled two-dimensional spectroscopy: Evidence for phase induced long-lived memory effects
Valentyn I. Prokhorenko, Alexei Halpin and R. J. Dwayne Miller
Faraday Discuss., 2011, 153, 27-39

Coherent control of single molecules at room temperature
Daan Brinks, Richard Hildner, Fernando D. Stefani and Niek F. van Hulst
Faraday Discuss., 2011, 153, 51-60

You can purchase this volume as an individual book through our website.

HOT article from FD154!

The recent Faraday Discussion 154 on Ionic Liquids took place at Queen’s University, Belfast.

Margarida Costa Gomes presented her group’s work on the solubility and thermodynamics of solvation of ethane and n-butane in various ionic liquids. The authors found that the alkanes were more soluble in ILs with longer alkyl chains and observed preferential solvation in the non-polar part of the ILs.

Read the full HOT Faraday Discussion article today:

Using ethane and butane as probes to the molecular structure of 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium bis[(trifluoromethyl)sulfonyl]imide ionic liquids
Margarida F. Costa Gomes, Laure Pison, Alfonso S. Pensado and Agilio A. H. Pádua
DOI: 10.1039/C1FD00074H

Faraday Discussions 150: Frontiers in Spectroscopy has now been published online

Take a look at this exciting volume today which covers the following themes:

Highlights from the volume include:

Spectroscopy and astronomy: H_3⁺ from the laboratory to the Galactic center
Takeshi Oka, Faraday Discuss., 2011, 150, 9. (Introductory lecture)

Non-Born–Oppenheimer wavepacket dynamics in polyatomic molecules: vibrations at conical intersections in DABCO
Andrey E. Boguslavskiy, Michael S. Schuurman, Dave Townsend and Albert Stolow, Faraday Discuss., 2011, 150, 419

Single-conformation spectroscopy and population analysis of model gamma-peptides: New tests of amide stacking
Evan G. Buchanan, William H. James III, Anna Gutberlet, Jacob C. Dean, Li Guo, Samuel H. Gellman and Timothy S. Zwier, Faraday Discuss., 2011, 150, 209

Read about the conference highlights and see photos from the meeting.

You can purchase this volume as an individual book through our website.