We present new results on the temperature-dependent collisioninduced low-frequency Raman spectrum of the spherical top molecule CC14, obtained using optical-heterodyne-detected, femtosecond Fourier-transform Raman-/ induced Kerr-effect spectroscopy. A spectral shift to lower frequencies with increasing temperatures has been observed. .. Recent work on the subject of solvation dynamics has concentrated on understanding the ultrafast dynamics of intermolecular interactions in strongly interacting, polar, and hydrogen-bonding solvents. In general, investigations into the effects of solvation dynamics on chemical reactions have concentrated on the highly polar liquids because it is in these solvents that the largest spectroscopic changes with solvent relaxation are observed. In these very polar liquids, however, the intermolecular dynamics are very complex, consisting of Contributions from reorientational diffusion, inertially limited rotations, intermolecular vibrations involving ':+' _IBUTION OF THtS OOOUMEN r I_ 1l_l.,_A_'Tm_,