The Journal of Molecular Structure is dedicated to the publication of full-length articles and review papers, providing important new structural information on all types of chemical species including:
/// Stable and unstable molecules in all types of environments (vapour, molecular beam, liquid, solution, liquid crystal, solid state, matrix-isolated, surface-absorbed etc.)
/// Chemical intermediates
/// Molecules in excited states
/// Biological molecules
/// Polymers.
The methods used may include any combination of spectroscopic and non-spectroscopic techniques, for example:
/// Infrared spectroscopy (mid, far, near)
/// Raman spectroscopy and non-linear Raman methods (CARS, etc.)
/// Electronic absorption spectroscopy
/// Optical rotatory dispersion and circular dichroism
/// Fluorescence and phosphorescence techniques
/// Electron spectroscopies (PES, XPS), EXAFS, etc.
/// Microwave spectroscopy
/// Electron diffraction
/// NMR and ESR spectroscopies
/// Mössbauer spectroscopy
/// X-ray crystallography
/// Charge Density Analyses
/// Force constant and molecular mechanics calculations (supplementing experimental methods)
/// Quantum chemical methods (supplementing experimental methods).
We encourage publications combining theoretical and experimental approaches. The structural insights gained by the studies should be correlated with the properties, activity and/ or reactivity of the molecule under investigation and the relevance of this molecule and its implications should be discussed.