Resonance Raman Intensities: The Roundabout Way to Franck-Condon Analysis

The following sections are included:

• Introduction

• Symmetric triatomic molecules and ions

  • Carbon disulfide

    • Emission polarization and rotational lineshapes in vapor

    • Electronic dephasing in solution

  • Sulfur dioxide

  • Triiodide ion

• Other small photodissociative molecules

  • Alkyl iodides

  • Nitromethane

• Small linear polyenes

  • Trans-hexatriene

  • Cis-hexatriene

  • Butadiene

• Stilbene

  • Trans-stilbene

  • Cis-stilbene

• Charge transfer systems

  • Hexamethylbenzene/tetracyanoethylene complex

  • Covalent charge-transfer molecules

• Azulene

• Conclusions

• Acknowledgments

• References