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The treatment of equilibrium solvation effects in condensed-phase kmetics on the basis of TST has a long history and the literature on this topic is extensive. As the basic ideas can be found m most physical chemistry textbooks and excellent reviews and monographs on more advanced aspects are available (see, for example, the recent review article by Tnihlar et al [6] and references therein), the following presentation will be brief and far from providing a complete picture. 

The analysis of the SEXAFS data is basically identical to the analysis of conventional EXAFS data We will simply recall the basic ideas that sustain the conventionally used Fourier analysis of the SEXAFS data, making reference to Fig. 2, which will be further discussed below. The reason for being brief is that excellent reviews are available in widely diffused journals that were written by the promoters of the technique and warrant exhaustivity on the subjects The (S)EXAFS signal is defined as ... 

Since then, groups have been derived for heats of formation of solid nitroaromatics (Ref 20) and for solid and liquid nitroalkanes (Ref 22) Group Additivity. The basic idea behind Group Additivity is that chemical thermodynamic properties of molecules consist of contributions from the individual groups that make up the molecule. Group Additivity is therefore an extension of the series atom additivity, bond additivity,. . . , and turns out to be an excellent compromise between simplicity and accuracy... 

Heyde, K. Basic Ideas and Concepts in Nuclear Physics, 2nd ed., IOP, Bristol, 1999. An excellent treatment of many newer aspects of nuclear physics. 

The following is a very short outline of the basic ideas of the relevant theoretical methods and aims at giving experimental chemists an understanding of the underlying principles. For those readers who wish to learn more about present methods in computational chemistry, we recommend the textbook Introduction to Computational Chemistry by Jensen". An excellent book about the theory and application of DFT given from a chemist s point of view is A Chemist s Guide to Density Functional Theory by Koch and Holthausen". Two reviews are available which discuss the application of ECPs to heavy atom molecules . We also mention the Encyclopedia of Computational Chemistry which contains a large number of reviews written by experts about nearly all aspects of the field". 

It is quite simple to say that this article deals with Chemical Dynamics. Unfortunately, the simplicity ends here. Indeed, although everybody feels that Chemical Dynamics lies somewhere between Chemical Kinetics and Molecular Dynamics, defining the boundaries between these different fields is generally based more on sur-misal than on knowledge. The main difference between Chemical Kinetics and Chemical Dynamics is that the former is more empirical and the latter essentially mechanical. For this reason, in the present article we do not deal with the details of kinetic theories. These are reviewed excellently elsewhere " The only basic idea which we retain is the reaction rate. Thus the purpose of Chemical Dynamics is to go beyond the definition of the reaction rate of Arrhenius (activation energy and frequency factor) for interpreting it in purely mechanical terms. 

With current supercomputer technology, the size of chemical systems being tractable by standard computer simulations can be up to some 10 atoms, reaching time scales of several nanoseconds for complete simulations or even larger when simplified models are used [4]. The basic ideas and technologies of MD simulations are reflected in many excellent reviews and books on this subject [5-9]. 

In this section we will summarize the main concepts that lead to the formulation of the variational principle for this case. An excellent discussion and review of the several applications within this area has been given recently [3] and we refer to that article and the references therein for the reader desiring more details on this subject. Here we present an introduction to the basic ideas needed for the application of DFT to these systems, in order to establish the analogies and differences with other applications. 

Besides the kinetic energy release associated with cluster evaporation, it is also possible in a mass spectrometer (either the double focusing M/E type or in a reflectron TOP apparatus) to measure the ratio of the daughter to parent signal, that is, M/AM. A model that expresses this ratio as well as the kinetic energy release is one based on the Klots theory of cluster evaporation. Because this approach is very different from the microcanonical theory so far presented, some basic ideas of theijnal kinetics must be discussed. Two excellent reviews of the basic theory (Klots, 1994) and their application to cluster evaporation (Lifshitz, 1993) provide most of the information needed to understand this field. 

Dehydrocyclisation of alkanes to aromatic compounds is one of the basic reactions of naphtha reforming, which is one of the most important industrial catalytic processes. IThe nature of the ring closure step is one of the main questions of understanding the chemistry of dehydrocyclisation. Sharan reviewed earlier work on tracer studies of this reaction.[ 1 An excellent discussion on the development of ideas and the role of [ C] isotope in elucidating reaction pathways has been published by Davis.Two basic ideas have competed in Scheme 2. One assumed stepwise dehydrogenation of open-chain alkanes then cyclisation as one of... 

Among the several available models, those that represent the solvent molecules through a continuum medium are by far the most extensively used in and solvation energy calculations. Thus, we will concentrate the discussion on the continuum approaches but since this is not the main objective of this chapter only the basic ideas will be presented. For more comprehensive discussions, the reader is referred to the excellent reviews of Tomasi and Persico [69], Cramer and Thrular [76], and Orozco and Luque [77]. 

Theory It is beyond the scope of this review article to provide a comprehensive description of basic X-ray diffraction from surfaces. Instead, readers are referred to the excellent reviews by Fei-denhans l [1], Fuoss and Brennan [2], and Robinson and Tweet [3] for explicit details. In this section, we will focus on some basic ideas that pertain to X-ray diffraction studies of surfaces in an electrochemical environment, in particular with regard to crystal-truncation rod (CTR) measurements. 

The method of weighted residuals is a way of reducing the number of independent variables or the problem domain dimension. The basic idea of the method is to approximate the solution of the problem over a domain by a functional form called a trial function. The trial function s form is specified but it has adjustable constants. The trial function is chosen so as to give a good solution to the original differential equation. An excellent treatment of the method is given in the book by Finlayson (1972). As an example of how the method works, let us consider the heat conduction equation... 

A number of excellent reviews on the Car-Parrinello method have been published during the years and an overview of the development of the field through the last decade is presented in Ref A comprehensive article has appeared recently that features the underlying theory and many details of the practical implementation ex plified with the ab initio molecular dynamics code CPMD developed in Parrinello s group. Another currrait review is especially addressed to the chemical engineaing community. Several overview articles are also available that siunmarize Car-Parrinello applications to specific topics, such as applications to clusters," fullerenes, liquids, semiconductor surfeces, smface reactions and biological systems. The present article is particularly directed to newcomers to the field of Car-Parrinello simulations who would like to get an introductory summary of the basic ideas, learn what one can do with this method and get to know which codes are currraitly available. 

An alternative to using equilibrium MD for computing transport coefficients is to use nonequilibrium molecular dynamics (NEMD) in which a modified Elamiltonian is used to drive the system away from equilibrium. By monitoring the response of the system in the limit of a small perturbation, the transport coefficient associated with the perturbation can be calculated. There is a rich literature on the use of NEMD to calculate transport coefficients the interested reader is referred to the excellent monograph by Evans and Morriss and the review article by Cummings and Evans.The basic idea behind the technique is that a system will respond in a linear fashion to a small perturbation. The following linear response theory equation is applicable in this limit ... 

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