Molecular reaction dynamics

Levine R D and Bernstein R B (eds) 1989 Molecular Reaction Dynamics and Chemical Reactivity (Qxford Qxford University Press)... 

Loesch H J and Remscheid A 1990 Brute force in molecular reaction dynamics a novel technique for measuring steric effects J. Chem. Phys. 93 4779-90... 

Khundkar L R and Zewail A H 1990 Ultrafast molecular reaction dynamics in real-time progress over a decade Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem. 41 15-60... 

In Chapter VI, Ohm and Deumens present their electron nuclear dynamics (END) time-dependent, nonadiabatic, theoretical, and computational approach to the study of molecular processes. This approach stresses the analysis of such processes in terms of dynamical, time-evolving states rather than stationary molecular states. Thus, rovibrational and scattering states are reduced to less prominent roles as is the case in most modem wavepacket treatments of molecular reaction dynamics. Unlike most theoretical methods, END also relegates electronic stationary states, potential energy surfaces, adiabatic and diabatic descriptions, and nonadiabatic coupling terms to the background in favor of a dynamic, time-evolving description of all electrons. 

R. D. Leviae and R. B. ReTn.sX.em, Molecular Reaction Dynamics and Chemical Reactivity, Oxford University Press, U.K., 1987. 

Richard N. Zare is Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor in Natural Science in the Department of Chemistry at Stanford University. He received his B.A. in 1961 and his Ph.D. in 1964 from Harvard University. His research areas are physical and analytical chemistry with specialized interests in application of lasers to chemical problems, molecular structure, molecular reaction dynamics, and chemical analysis. Zare has been a member of various NRC committees and served as co-chair of the Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications and chair of the National Science Board. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and he received the U.S. National Medal of Science in 1983. 

Levine, R. D. and Bernstein, R. B. Molecular reaction dynamics and chemical reactivity, Oxford University Press, New York, 1987... 

Another development in molecular reaction dynamics or state-to-state chemistry is the theory, which has developed the same way. With the help of electronic computers, it has been possible to study theoretically the molecular collisions underlying the abovementioned experiments and obtain a detailed... 

Raphael, D. Levine, Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Cambridge University Press (2005). 

Reaction dynamics is the part of chemical kinetics which is concerned with the microscopic-molecular dynamic behavior of reacting systems. Molecular reaction dynamics is coming of age and much more refined state-to-state information is becoming available on the fundamental reactions. The contribution of molecular beam experiments and laser techniques to chemical dynamics has become very useful in the study of isolated molecules and their mutual interactions not only in gas surface systems, but also in solute-solution systems. 

Khundkar, L. R., and Zewail, A. H. (1990), Ultrafast Molecular Reaction Dynamics in Real-Time Progress over a Decade, Ann. Rev. Phys. Chem. 41, 15. 

For over a dozen years we have been developing an algebraic approach to molecular energetics and dynamics. One of us came from nuclear physics, the other from molecular reaction dynamics, but we were both interested in algebraic methods when we met in 1981. This volume represents that part of our work that we regard as being ready to be published as a book. 

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