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The only appreciable contributions to the electron densities at the nucleus are from s electrons. Usually only valence 5 electrons are considered because the inner s electrons are iriuch less aflFected by chemical bonding. Therefore, the isomer shift "gives a unique measure of the role of s electrons in chemical bonds and thus provides a physical foundation for the chemical concept of ionic character (14),... 

Received July 25,1977. Contribution No. 5637 from the Arthur Amos Noyes Laboratory of Chemical Physics. Work supported by the National Science Foundation. 

Oral history interviews of various physical organic chemists are now fully available for consultation in the Othmer Library of the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia.296 They include F. R. Mayo, M. S. Newman, C. C. Price, J. D. Roberts, A. Streitwieser, C. Walling, and F. H. Westheimer. 

From its origin over a century ago, organic photochemistry has undergone a transformation from an area of science populated by a few specialized organic and physical chemists to a field that now attracts the interest of members of the broad synthetic organic chemistry community. Along the way, the basic chemical and physical foundations of the science were developed and the full synthetic potential of photochemical reactions of organic substrates has been realized. 

We thank F. C. Anson and F. J. Grunthaner for helpful discussions. Research on blue copper proteins at the California Institute of Technology has been supported by the National Science Foundation. This paper is contribution no. 5366 from the Arthur Amos Noyes Laboratory of Chemical Physics. 

This work was supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China (No. 20143002, No. 20233050), the Innovation Fund of the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. K2001E2), the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2003CB615805), and SINOPEC. 

We would like to thank Bob Grasselli, Jim Burrington, and Keith Hall for spirited discussions of various aspects of chemistry on molybdates. We also gratefully acknowledge partial support of this work from the Department of Energy (under a contract with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory) and the Donors of the Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society. One of the authors (JNA) wishes to acknowledge support in the form of a fellowship from the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation. This chapter is Contribution No. 7101 from the Arthur Amos Noyes Laboratory of Chemical Physics. 

This work has been supported by the National Science foundation, division of Chemical Physics. Partial support by the Petroleum Research Foundation administered by the American Chemical Society has also been received. 

The National Science Foundation is sponsoring a study by Princeton University (Dr. Catherine Peters, principal investigator) regarding the chemical, physical, and microbiological processes governing the behavior of mixtures of PAHs in NAPL-contaminated soils. 

Reprinted from The Journal of Chemical Physics, 48, No. 8,15 April 1968, pp. 3506-3516. tThis work was supported by the National Science Foundation, Grant No. GP-5407. A part of the computorial work was done at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory under the auspices of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. 

Theoretical and Physical Chemistry Institute, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens 11635, Greece Departments of Chemistry and Physics, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver V6T1Z1, Canada Department of Chemical Physics, The Weizmann Institufe, Rehovot 76100, Israel E-mail addresses ifhano eie.gr (I. Thanopulos), mshapiro chem.ubc.ca (M. Shapiro)... 

S. M. Blinder is Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Physics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Born in New York City, he completed his PhD in Chemical Physics from Harvard in 1958 under the direction of W. E. Moffitt and J. H. Van Vleck (Nobel Laureate in Physics, 1977). Professor Blinder has over 100 research publications in several areas of theoretical chemistry and mathematical physics. He was the first to derive the exact Coulomb (hydrogen atom) propagator in Feynman s path-integral formulation of quantum mechanics. He is the author of three earlier books Advanced Physical Chemistry (Macmillan, 1969), Foundations of Quantum Dynamics (Academic Press, 1974), md Introduction to Quantum Mechanics in Chemistry, Materials Science and Biology (Elsevier, 2004). 

Simha, R., and Mark H., Physical foundations of chemical catalysis. Chap. 4. in Handbuch der Chemischen Katalyse, Schwab G. M., Ed., Springer-Verlag, Vienna (1941). 

Note that in above deductions the double (independent) averages technique was adopted, exploiting therefore the associate sums inter-conversions to produce the simplified results (Park et al., 1980 Blanchard, 1982 Snygg, 1982). Yet, this technique is equivalent with quantum mechanically factorization of the entire Hilbert space into sub-spaces, or at the limit into the subspace of interest (that selected to be measured, for instance) and the rest of the space being thus this approach equivalent with a system-bath sample this note is useful for latter better understanding of the stochastic phenomena that underlay to open quantum systems, being this the physical foundation for chemical reactivity. 

Addressing students of theoretical and quantum chemistry and their counterparts in physics. Chemical Physics Electrons and Excitations introduces chemical physics as a gateway to fields such as photophysics, solid-state physics, and electrochemistry. Offering relevant background in theory and applications, it covers the foundations of quantum mechanics and molecular structure, as well as more specialized topics such as transfer reactions and photochemistry. 

As the foundation of quantum statistical mechanics, the theory of open quantum systems has remained an active topic of research since about the middle of the last century [1-40]. Its development has involved scientists working in fields as diversified as nuclear magnetic resonance, quantum optics and nonlinear spectroscopy, solid-state physics, material science, chemical physics, biophysics, and quantum information. The key quantity in quantum dissipation theory (QDT) is the reduced system density operator, defined formally as the partial trace of the total composite density operator over the stochastic surroundings (bath) degrees of freedom. 

The extension of Mulliken s program to polyatomic molecules started with a series of 14 papers titled "The Electronic Structure of Polyatomic Molecules and Valence," which spanned the years 1932-1935. The series appeared in Physical Review and, after the fourth paper, in the newly created Journal of Chemical Physics, which some claimed was founded just to house Mulliken s papers (Platt 1966, 746) In this way, foundational papers for the subdisdpline of quantum chemistry written by two of its founders were included in the first and subsequent volumes of the Journal of Chemical Physics, which thereafter functioned as a privileged outlet for the new subdiscipline. 

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