{"id":1102,"date":"2026-04-10T11:36:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T23:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2026-04-10T11:36:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T23:36:30","slug":"congratulations-peter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/congratulations-peter\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations Peter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter just had a book chapter published with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rsc.org\/\">Royal Society of Chemistry<\/a>.\u00a0 The Chapter entitled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1039\/9781837677061-00001\">The Use of Emission and Resonance Raman Spectroscopy to Examine Structural Changes upon Photoexcitation in Metal Complexes<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0 is part of Photofunctional Materials<span class=\"subtitle-colon\">:\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"subtitle\">Photoactive Coordination Complexes (part of the <\/span>Inorganic Materials Series) edited by <a class=\"linked-name js-linked-name book-info__author-link stats-author-info-trigger\" rel=\"nofollow\">Paul A Scattergood.\u00a0 The chapter lays out the principles of resonance Raman spectroscopy and its use in understanding excited state structure; including the use of quantum calculations and wavepacket dynamcs to establish structural changes.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1104\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1104\" style=\"width: 623px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/04\/Figure-1_8.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1104\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/04\/Figure-1_8-1024x698.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"623\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/04\/Figure-1_8-1024x698.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/04\/Figure-1_8-300x204.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/04\/Figure-1_8-768x523.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/04\/Figure-1_8.png 1513w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 623px) 100vw, 623px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1104\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From the book chapter &#8211; showing wavepacket dynamics<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"cover-nav_wrap\">\n<div class=\"book-info__cover\"><a class=\"book-info__cover-link\" href=\"https:\/\/books.rsc.org\/books\/edited-volume\/2488\/Photofunctional-MaterialsPhotoactive-Coordination\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BookImage\" class=\"fb-featured-image book-info__cover-img\" src=\"https:\/\/rsc.silverchair-cdn.com\/rsc\/content_public\/books\/2488\/book\/14\/m_9781837673834.jpeg?Expires=1778801248&amp;Signature=XvC9-ij8babsPXtzVPSfOvQJGoFtmWjytmG2-vLAFaJ-jC81b65aH2tb5pXsg9rd-h4aPQ5vrRQ~gOEA~oS7qZuDLXtDu-rj8yjk~1DzhcyCKwveytcwQBC7ymXjwHBrlZigrFJA3wsSBYymcd1Fwo6OMBjVQVwreLu79xeZHz7SHYnLCoSt-2yAevD8l~GIbJvZTk6cf0--de1UCe6LjUC3noy0G7yMqQFXe7fjzVjO9apeAl~rAbhPyhnX1qtqshkrzpBTSkvjbigfNQeOhKaib1iKkmDFlAZFYXByizlz~~w87q0lbG3kyWm3Sx6Tkava9g2E-r1eey06bZct5A__&amp;Key-Pair-Id=APKAIE5G5CRDK6RD3PGA\" alt=\"Front cover for Photofunctional Materials edited by Paul A Scattergood, published by the Royal Society of Chemistry in the Inorganic Materials Series. The cover shows two ball and stick coordination complexes connected by a rightward arrow, illustrating a photoinduced ligand ejection from a transition metal complex.\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"book-info__meta content-metadata_wrap\">\n<div class=\"book-info__authors\">\n<div class=\"al-authors-list book-info__author-list\">\n<div class=\"al-authors-list editors\">\n<div class=\"al-author-name book-info__author js-flyout-wrap\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter just had a book chapter published with the Royal Society of Chemistry.\u00a0 The Chapter entitled &#8220;The Use of Emission and Resonance Raman Spectroscopy to Examine Structural Changes upon Photoexcitation in Metal Complexes&#8221;\u00a0 is part of Photofunctional Materials:\u00a0Photoactive Coordination Complexes (part of the Inorganic Materials Series) edited by Paul A Scattergood.\u00a0 The chapter lays out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33170,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33170"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}