Advances in Chemical Physics, Volume 114

by Ilya Prigogine (Editor), Stuart A. Rice (Editor)

Overview

Providing the chemical physics field with a forum for critical,authoritative evaluations in every area of the discipline, thelatest volume of Advances in Chemical Physics continues to providesignificant, up-to-date chapters written by internationallyrecognized researchers.

This volume is essentially devoted to helping the reader obtaingeneral information about a wide variety of topics in chemicalphysics. Advances in Chemical Physics, Volume 114 includes chaptersaddressing vibrational energy flow, discrete variablerepresentations and their utilization, the unified theory ofphotochemical charge separation, and the association, dissociation,acceleration, and suppression of reactions by laser pulses.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780471392675
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	09/08/2000
Series:	Advances in Chemical Physics , #114
Edition description:	Volume 114 ed.
Pages:	648
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.35(h) x 1.37(d)

About the Author

ILYA PRIGOGINE is Director of the Instituts Internationaux de Physique et de Chimie, E. Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. Dr. Prigogine is also the Ashbel Smith Professor of Physics at The University of Texas at Austin, where he is also Director of the Ilya Prigogine Center for Studies in Statistical Mechanics and Complex Systems. In 1977 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

STUART A. RICE received his master's and doctorate from Harvard University and was a Junior Fellow at Harvard for two years before joining the faculty of The University of Chicago in 1957 where he remains a well-known theoretical chemist who also does experimental research and is currently the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at The University of Chicago. Professor Rice has served the university in a wide variety of capacities during his forty-eight year tenure. He served as the director of the James Franck Institute (the university's center for physical chemistry and condensed matter physics) from 1961 to 1967, was Chairman of the Department of Chemistry from 1971 to 1976 and was Dean of the Physical Sciences Division from 1981 to 1995. In 1999 he received the National Medal of Science.
In addition to his work at the University, he is currently on the Board of Governors at Argonne National Laboratory, managed by and affiliated with The University of Chicago, as well as Tel Aviv University. He has served as editor for Chemical Physics Letters, in addition to the series on Advances in Chemical Physics. He currently maintains a full research lab but has retired from teaching classes.

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INTRODUCTION

Few of us can any longer keep up with the flood of scientific literature, even in specialized subfields. Any attempt to do more and be broadly educated with respect to a large domain of science has the appearance of tilting at windmills. Yet the synthesis of ideas drawn from different subjects into new, powerful, general concepts is as valuable as ever, and the desire to remain educated persists in all scientists. This series, Advances in Chemical Physics, is devoted to helping the reader obtain general information about a wide variety of topics in chemical physics, a field that we interpret very broadly. Our intent is to have experts present comprenhensive analyses of subjects of interest and to encourage the expression of individual points of view. We hope that this approach to the presentation of an overview of a subject will both stimulate new research and serve as a personalized learning text for beginners in a field.

I. PRIGOGINE

STUART A. RICE

Table of Contents

The Decoupling of Electronic and Nuclear Motions in the IsolatedMolecule Schrodinger Hamiltonian (B. Sutcliffe).

Association, Dissociation, and the Acceleration and Suppression ofReactions by Laser Pulses (M. Shapiro).

Vibrational Energy Flow: A State Space Approach (M.Gruebele).

Discrete-Variable Representations and Their Utilization (J. Light& T. Carrington).

Above and Below the Wannier Threshold (A. Loughan).

Unified Theory of Photochemical Charge Separation (A.Burshtein).

Indexes.

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Introduction

INTRODUCTION

Few of us can any longer keep up with the flood of scientific literature, even in specialized subfields. Any attempt to do more and be broadly educated with respect to a large domain of science has the appearance of tilting at windmills. Yet the synthesis of ideas drawn from different subjects into new, powerful, general concepts is as valuable as ever, and the desire to remain educated persists in all scientists. This series, Advances in Chemical Physics, is devoted to helping the reader obtain general information about a wide variety of topics in chemical physics, a field that we interpret very broadly. Our intent is to have experts present comprehensive analyses of subjects of interest and to encourage the expression of individual points of view. We hope that this approach to the presentation of an overview of a subject will both stimulate new research and serve as a personalized learning text for beginners in a field.

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"Specialists...explain recent developments for scientists working in other areas of chemical physics." (SciTech Book News, March 2001)

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Specialists...explain recent developments for scientists working in other areas of chemical physics.

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Four papers present an overview and analysis of Doppler spectroscopy used with photofragmentation; vibrational predissociation dynamics of Van der Waals complexes and product rotational state distributions; electron scattering by small molecules; and time-dependent semiclassical mechanics. For researchers and students in chemical physics. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Nine recent papers represent the current state of chemical physics. They discuss transition path sampling, chemical reaction dynamics, chaos, single molecule spectroscopy, self-similarity, electron- correlated approaches, the computational chemistry of acids, cooperative effects of hydrogen bonding, and nonadiabatic electron- transfer reactions. Numerous charts and graphs provide a visual display of the data. The contributors include chemical engineers, chemical biologists, and other scientists from the United States, Japan, Brazil, and Germany. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR