FOUNDATIONS OF RADIATION

Intra- and intermolecular hydrogen transfer processes are important in a wide variety of chemical processes, ranging from free radical reactions (which make up the foundation of radiation chemistry) and tautomeriza-tion in the ground and excited states (a fundamental photochemical process) to bulk and surface diffusion (critical for heterogeneous catalytic processes). The exchange reaction H2 + H has always been the preeminent model for testing basic concepts of chemical dynamics theory because it is amenable to carrying out exact three-dimensional fully quantum mechanical calculations. This reaction is now studied in low-temperature solids as well. 

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