This book explores how structure impacts the dynamics of organic molecules in an extensive and impressive range of femtosecond time-resolved experiments that are combined with state-of-the-art theoretical approaches. It explores an area of molecular dynamics that remains largely uncharted and provides an extraordinary overview, along with novel insights into the concept of the dynamophore the functional group of ultrafast science.

Divided into four parts, this book outlines both experimental and computational studies on the VUV photoinduced dynamics of four cyclic ketones and one linear ketone, the ring-opening and dissociative dynamics of cyclopropane, and the potential ultrafast intersystem crossing in three methylated benzene derivatives. Model systems for the disulfide bond and the peptide bond, both of which are related to the structure of proteins, are also investigated. This highly informative and carefully presented book offers a wealth of scientific insights for all scholars with an interest in molecular dynamics.

Dr. Bjørnholst holds a master of science degree in Nanoscience at the University in Copenhagen (Denmark), and a Ph.D. on Femtosecond Chemistry at the same university with supervision from Professor Theis Sølling. During his Ph.D., Dr. Bjørnholst  collaborated with the group of Professor Albert Stolow at the National Research Council of Canada and University of Ottawa (Canada), and with the group of Leticia Gonzalez at the University of Vienna (Austria).