Advances in Chemical Physics, Volume 139

by Stuart A. Rice (Editor)

Overview

This series provides the chemical physics field with a forum for critical, authoritative evaluations of advances in every area of the discipline.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780470253892
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	04/11/2008
Series:	Advances in Chemical Physics , #301
Pages:	648
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.52(d)

About the Author

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

Recent Advances in the Field of Integral Equation Theories: Bridge Functions and Applications to Classical Fluids (Jean-Marc Bomont).

The Chemical Environment of Ionic Liquids: Links Between Liquid Structure, Dynamics, and Solvation (Mark N. Kobrak)

Counterion Condensation in Nucleic Acid (Alex Spasic and Udayan Mohanty).

Physiochemical Applications of Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy (Francois O. Laforge, Peng Sun, and Michael V. Mirkin).

The v_x-H Line Shapes of Centrosymmetric Cyclic Dimers Involving Weak Hydrogen Bonds (Oliver Henri-Rousseau and Pal Blaise).

Time-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Nonadiabatic Dynamics in Polyatomic Molecules (Albert Stolow and Jonathan G. Underwood).

Author Index.

Subject Index.

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.

Editorial Reviews

"This volume continues the standard of excellent set by it predecessors.  It is an essential item for any modern university or research institution library." (Journal of the American Chemical Society, September 24, 2008)

From the Publisher

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

SciTech Book News

Comprises five contributions on integral equation theories of the structure, thermodynamics, and phase transitions of polymer fluids; dielectric properties of liquid crystals under high pressure; electric polarization of polar time-dependent-rigid materials; magnetic relation in fine particle systems; and equilibrium configurations of "N" equal charges on a sphere. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Booknews

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