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Foreword	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Committees and Sponsors	p. xv
Group Photograph	p. xvii
Plenary Presentations
Remote Raman Spectroscopic Detection of Inorganic, Organic and Biological Materials to 100 m and More	p. 3
Potential of Raman and Infrared Spectroscopy for Plant Analysis	p. 8
Hydrogen Bonding in Proteins and Water Studied by Far-IR and Low-Wavenumber Raman Spectroscopy	p. 13
Peptides as Model Systems for the Unfolded State of Proteins Explored by Vibrational Spectroscopy	p. 18
Raman Optical Activity of Biomolecules: From Simple Models to Complex Systems	p. 23
Synthesis and Intrinsic Optical Properties of Retinal Schiff Base and Green Fluorescent Protein Chromophores	p. 28
Transcutaneous Measurement of Blood Analyte Concentration Using Raman Spectroscopy	p. 33
Time-Resolved Resonance Raman Spectroscopy of Vibrational Populations Monitored after Electronic and Infrared Excitation	p. 38
Nonlinear Raman Techniques in Femtosecond Time Resolved Spectroscopy for the Analysis and Control of Molecular Dynamics	p. 43
Experimental and Theoretical Studies on Biologically Active Lanthanide (III) Complexes	p. 47
Contributed Papers
Section A Theoretical and Computational Studies
Normal Vibrations and Force Fields for Chloromethy lanilines	p. 55
Vibrational Spectral Simulation of 1-Benszyl-1H-Imidazole Using Scaled DFT Force Fields	p. 58
Potential Energy Surface Scan Studies and NBO Analysis of L-Alanylglycine Crystal: A Vibrational Approach	p. 61
Section B Time-Resolved Raman Spectroscopy and Ultrafast Phenomena
Model Selective Excitation Using Coherent Control Spectroscopy	p. 64
Section C Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy
Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy of Volatile Organic Molecules on the Surface of Zinc Nanoparticles Produced by Laster Ablation	p. 67
Raman Signal Enhancement Based Chemical Sensing of Volatile Organic Compounds	p. 71
Section D Vibrational Analysis and Molecular Structure
Computation and Vibrational-Spectroscopy Study of 5-Nitro-6-Methlyuracil by Density Functional Theory	p. 74
Vibrational Assignments and Electronic Structure Calculations for 3-Chloro-4-Hydroxybenzaldehyde	p. 77
Vibrational Spectroscopy of Halogen Substituted Benzene Derivatives	p. 81
Electron-Phonon Coupling and Intramolecular Charge Transfer from their Vibrational Spectra of Potential NLO Chromophores of Stilbene Derivatives	p. 85
Quantum Chemical Computations and Spectral Investigation of 2, 6-Bis (P-Methyl Benzylidene Cyclohexanone)	p. 89
Synthesis and Spectroscopic Investigations of NLO Crystal L-Valine Formate	p. 92
Vibrational Spectra of ¿-Aminobutyric Acid	p. 95
Vibrational Spectral Studies and Ab initio Computations of a Nonlinear Food Dye Carmoisine	p. 98
Growth and Vibrational Spectroscopic Investigations of NLO Crystal Barium Thiourea Chaloride	p. 101
Spectroscopic Investigations and Quantum Chemical Computations of NLO Material Bis (4-Nitropheny) Carbonate	p. 104
NIR FT-Raman, FT-HR and Quantum Chemical Computations of an Anti-Inflammatory Drug 2-Ethoxybenzamide	p. 107
Vibrational Spectra, Assignments and ab initio / DFT Analysis for 2-Methyl-3-nitrophenly isocyanate	p. 111
Studies on the Vibrational Spectra of the Nonlinear Optical Crystal L-Alaninium oxalate	p. 115
Section E Applications to Materials Science, New Functional Materials, and Conducting Polymers
Vibrational Spectroscopy of PTSA-Doped Polyaniline	p. 118
Phase Transition Studies of WO3 Nanoparticles by XRD and FT Raman Spectroscopy	p. 121
Infrared and Raman Spectral Studies of Zirconium Hydrated Nitrate	p. 125
Theoretical and Experimental Studies on the Nonlinear Optical Chromophore para Bromoacetanilide	p. 128
Spectroscopic Investigations on Ln (Zr 1/3 Ti 2/3) TaO6 (Ln = Ce, Pr, Nd and Eu) Ceramics	p. 131
Effect of Finite Size on One-Magnon and Two-Magnon Excitations in Nanocrystalline Nickel Oxide Studied Using Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy	p. 135
Section F Applications to Biology and Biomedicine
The Use of Raman Tweezers and Chemometric Analysis to Discriminate the Urological Cell Lines, PC-3, LNCaP, BPH and MgH-U1	p. 138
Differentiation of Normal and Malignant Breast Tissues Using Infrared Spectroscopy	p. 141
Diagnosis of Breast Cancer Based on FT-IR Spectroscopy	p. 144
FT-IR Spectroscopic Analysis of Normal and Malignant Human Oral Tissues	p. 149
Deformations of the Heme Group of Different Ferrocytochrome c Proteins Probed by Resonance Raman Spectroscopy	p. 152
Infrared Spectral Studies of Urinary Stones Resected from Urinary Bladder	p. 155
Quantum Chemical Computations and Vibrational Spectral Investigations of Bio-Active Presticide Chlorothalonil	p. 158
Determination of Chemical Compositions on Adult Kidney Stones-A Spectroscopic Study	p. 161
Section G Industrial Applications in Process Monitoring and Catalysts
Immobilized Cu (II)-Amino Acid Complexes as Prospective Highly Efficient Catalytic Materials: Synthesis, Structural Characterization and Catalytic Activities	p. 165
Vibrational Spectral Investigations of Cheque Paper Document in Forensic Science	p. 169
Determination of Moisture Content in 5-Fluorouracil Using Difuse Reflectance Infrared Spectroscopy	p. 172
Section H Vibrational Optical Activity
DFT IR, Raman and VCD Spectra of (R)-(+)-Lactamide	p. 175
Section I Other Papers
Line Shape Measurement of Overtone Transitions of Water Vapor Broadened by Carbon Dioxide	p. 178
FT-IR Spectroscopic Studies of Beach Rocks of South East Cost of Tamil Nadu, India	p. 181
ICP-AES and FT-IR Studies on the Effect of Cadmium on the Groundnut Cultivar	p. 184
Laser Induced Molecular Spectroscopy of Zn2 Molecule	p. 189
Spectroscopic Studies of a few Molecular Bands in Comets	p. 193
Vibrational Spectroscopy and Search for Extraterrestrial Life	p. 196
Spectroscopic Analysis of Rock Mineral-Garnet of South Kerala	p. 200
Semicrystalline Polymer Composities for Magnetic Shielding Applications	p. 203
Effect of Fe3+ on Curcumin-DNA Complex Studied by FT-Raman Spectroscopy	p. 206
Electrochemical Synthesis of Polyaniline Doped with HCI Acid at Different DC Voltages	p. 209
FT-IR Studies of Pure and Doped Hippuric Acid Crystals	p. 212
Thermal Expansivity Related to the Frequency Shifts for the I-II Phase Transition in Ammonium Iodide	p. 215
Vibrational Spectral Studies of Gemfibrozil	p. 218
List of Participants	p. 223
Author Index	p. 229