Dynamics of elementary reactions

Benson, S. W The Foundations of Chemical Kinetics. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1960 Weston, R. E and Schwartz, H. A., Chemical Kinetics. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1972 Smith, I. W. M., Kinetics and Dynamics of Elementary Reactions. Butterworth, London, 1980. 

Details of studies of the kinetics and dynamics of elementary reactions involving atomic species are provided in Table 12. Although many of these deal only with kinetics or dynamics and appear to have little connection with photoprocesses , it will be found that such studies have made use of radiation in some way-to initiate a reaction or to probe a product state distribution,... 

I. W, M. Smith, Kinetics and Dynamics of Elementary Reactions, Butterworth, London, 1980. 

Of particular interest is the so-called crossed-beam method to study the dynamics of elementary reactions a field, in which D.R. Herschbach and Y.T. Lee were awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their fundamental development work. A key feature of the crossed-beam technique is to work under single collision conditions (see below). J.C. Polanyi shared the 1986 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his contribution in the study of the dynamics of elementary reactions using other methods, such as chemiluminescence and dynamical calculations. 

Figure 23.12 Crossed-beam apparatus for investigating the dynamics of elementary reactions using imaging techniques. Adapted from Ahmed et at, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2000, 2 861, with permission of the PCCP Owner Societies...

Brouard M, O Keefe P, VaUance C. 2002. Product state resolved dynamics of elementary reactions . J. Phys. Chem. A 106(15) 3629-3641. 

All that has been discussed above was known by the end of the 1970 s. What developments of consequence have taken place since then One way to answer this question is to look at the programs of papers presented at a few important recent conferences. In November 1986 a Workshop on Dynamical Aspects of Stereochemistry [29] was held at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and in July 1987 the Xlth International Symposium on Molecular Beams [30] was held in Edinburgh. The Faraday Discussion on Dynamics of Elementary Gas Phase Reactions [31] is scheduled to follow the present Workshop, in Birmingham. (The Faraday Discussion is especially favoured by the presence of, and presentations by, the three 1986 Nobel Laureates in Chemistry, Professors D.H. Herschbach, Y.T. Lee and J.C. Polanyi, whose Award served to "legitimize" the field of chemical dynamics of elementary reactions). 

Oleg M. Sarkisov received his Ph.D. d ree in 1971 at the N.N. Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics, Russimi Academy of Science. The title of the thesis was Excited species in the mechanism of F2 H2(D2) reaction . In 1967 he started to work in the Institute of Chemical Physics as a sdcntiiic researcher and obtained in 1981 the d ree of Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. Oleg M. Sarkisov cmiently is the Professor of Chemistry and vice director at N.N. Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Professor at the Faculty of Molecular and Biological Physics of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. He is the author of more than 200 publications. His scientific interests kinetics and dynamics of elementary reactions, laser spectroscopy, and photochemistry. 

Herschbach D R 1987 Molecular dynamics of elementary chemical reactions Angew. Chem. 26 1221—43... 

STATE-TO-STATE DYNAMICS OF ELEMENTARY CHEMICAL REACTIONS USING RYDBERG H-ATOM... 

State-to-State Dynamics of Elementary Chemical Reactions... 

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