I Techniques and Instrumentation.- Energy-Partitioning Measurements in O(1D2) Reactions Time-Resolved Fourier Transform Infrared Emission Spectroscopy.- High-Resolution Fourier Transform Raman Spectroscopy with Ultrashort Laser Pulses.- Picosecond Transient Raman Spectroscopy Using the High Repetition Rate, Amplified, Synchronously Pumped Dye Laser.- Pulsed Multichannel Raman Technique.- Fluorescence Rejection in Raman Spectroscopy.- Measurement of the Third-Order Electronic Susceptibility of GaP by Picosecond CARS Spectroscopy.- Polarization Effects of Time-Resolved Coherent Raman Scattering in Liquids.- II Vibrational Dynamics of Molecules.- Ultrafast Intramolecular Vibrational Redistribution and Intermolecular Energy Dissipation of Polyatomic Molecules in Solution.- Time-Resolved Observation of Vibration ally Highly Excited Polyatomic Molecules.- Time-Resolved Raman Spectroscopy of Highly Excited Vibrational States of Polyatomic Molecules.- Transient Vibrational Excitation of Dye Molecules in a Solid Polymer Matrix.- Ultrafast Vibronic Dynamics of Dye Molecules Studied by the Induced Grating Method.- Vibrational Fluorescence from Matrix-Isolated CO and NO Pumped with a Color Center Laser.- Vibrational Energy Decay of Surface Adsorbates.- Vibrational Energy Relaxation of Hydrogen Chloride in Liquid and Solid Xenon.- Ultrafast IR Spectroscopy Studying Nearly-Free Induction Decay.- Dephasing in Liquid N2 and in Binary Mixtures of N2 with Liquid Argon.- High Pressure Brillouin Scattering on Liquid Carbon Tetrachloride and Benzene.- III Vibrational Dynamics in Solids.- Vibrational Energy Relaxation in Solid Benzene.- Time-Resolved Raman Spectroscopy of Laser-Heated Semiconductors.- Picosecond Vibrational Dynamics of Hydrogen Bonded Solids: Phonons and Optical Damage.- Time-Resolved Two-Color Optical Coherence Experiments.- High Sensitivity Time-Resolved Study of the Coherence and Parametric Instabilities of Two-Phonon States.- Two-Phonon Bound States in Molecular Crystals.- IV Photochemical Reactions.- Resonance Raman Studies of Transient Intermediates in Photoreactions of Anthraquinone and Flavone Species.- Resonance Raman Spectra and Assignments of Deuterated Stilbene Anion and Cation Radicals.- Application of Time-Resolved Resonance Raman Spectroscopy to Some Organic Photochemical Processes in Solution.- Time-Resolved Resonance Raman Studies of Photoenolization of ortho-Alkyl Substituted Benzophenones.- Resonance CARS Spectra of Metastable Merocyanines Produced by UV-Photolysis of Spirooxazines.- Photoisomerization of Stilbene and 1,4-Diphenylbutadiene in Compressed Gases and Liquids - Density-Dependent Solvent Shift and Transport Contributions.- V Transient Species.- Advantages of Resonance CARS for the Study of Short-Living Radicals and Photoisomers.- Resonance CARS Study of ?, ?-Diphenylpolyenes in the Electronic Excited States.- Ultraviolet Resonance Raman Studies of Electronic Excitations.- Excited States of Polyenes Studied Time-Resolved Resonance Raman Spectroscopy.- Resonance Raman Spectra of the Triplet States and Anion Radicals of Trans-Nitrostilbenes.- Resonance Raman Spectroscopy of Transient Species in the Pulse Radiolytic Oxidation of Aqueous Aniline.- Intramolecular Kinetics of Vibrationally Excited Singlet and Triplet States in Some Cyclic Hydrocarbons.- In Situ Raman Studies of Homopolymerisation and Copolymerisation Reactions.- Time-Resolved Spontaneous Raman Scattering Chrysene in S1 and Incoherent CARS for T2 Measurement.- VI Biological Systems.- How Protein Structure Controls Oxygen Dissociation in Haemoglobin: Implications of Picosecond Transient Raman Studies.- Resonance Raman Spectra of Reaction Intermediates of Herne Enzymes.- Herne-Linked Ionization of Horseradish Peroxidase Compound II Monitored by Changes in the Fe(IV)=0 Resonance Raman Frequency.- Resonance Raman Studies of Transient States in Bacterial Reaction Centers.- Energy-Transfer Between Dimeric Chlorophyll ? and All-Trans ?-Carotene in vitro as Resolved by Fluorescence Photoquenching.- Using Time-Resolved Resonance Raman Spectroscopy to Map the Reaction Pathway for Enzyme-Substrate Transients.- UV, IR, and Raman Spectroscopic Tracings of the B?Z Transitions of Poly[d(GC)]·poly[d(GC)].- Kinetic Studies on Bacteriorhodopsin Resonance Raman Spectroscopy.- Resonance Raman Study on the Role of Water in Bacteriorhodopsin.- Picosecond and Nanosecond Resonance Raman Evidence for Structural Relaxation in Bacteriorhodopsin's Primary Photoproduct.- Picosecond Time-Resolved Resonance Raman Spectroscopy of Bacteriorhodopsin Intermediates.- Evidence from FTIR-Measurements for a Separation of the Protonated Schiff Base from the Counterion into a Less Polar Environment.- Time-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy Applied to Photobiological Systems.- VII Theoretical Aspects.- Electrontransfer and Vibrational Relaxation in Bridged Donor-Acceptor Systems.- Theory of Luminescence in the Three-Level System with Extension to the Multistate Problem by Transform Methods.- Application of Time-Dependent Raman Theory to the Analysis of Inorganic Photosystems.- Time-Dependent Quantum Dynamics of the Picosecond Vibrational IR-Excitation of Polyatomic Molecules.- Decay Law in Conformational Relaxation.- Stochastic Theory of Vibrational Dephasing and Transient CARS Lineshapes.- On the Lineshape of Molecular Aggregate Spectra.- Index of Contributors.