Review articles

Review articles covering basis set construction and performance are 

Excellent books and review articles covering LB and SA films have appeared recently. The following covers the basics and some selected topics are presented as examples. For a more comprehensive overview and more details on specific topics the reader is referred to the cited literature. 

A nice collection of review articles dealing with various experimental aspects of modern NMR spectroscopy several papers on relaxation. 

A special issue devoted to review articles on various aspects of van der Waals molecules. 

Excited States, a series of collections of review articles edited by E. C. Lim, Academic Press, New York 1974-1982. 

Advances in Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy [36] provides review articles, both fiindamental and applied, in the fields 

It is, of course, widely considered that the classical TST provides the central framework for the understanding of thennal rate constants (see the review article by Tnihlar et al [13]) and also for quantifying the dominant effects of the considered phase in chemical reactions (see below). 

References to the individual basis sets have not been included here. Most can be readily found in the review articles. 

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. 

When quantum effects are large, the PF can be evaluated by path integral methods [H], Our exposition follows a review article by Gillan [12], Starting with the canonical PF for a system of particles 

In this article only the most important and frequently applied EPR methods will be introduced. For more extensive treatments of CW and pulsed EPR the reader is referred to some excellent review articles that will be specified in the respective sections of this article. A good starting point for fiirther reading is provided by a number of outstanding textbooks which have been written on the various aspects of EPR in general [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8]. Interested readers 

For imiltidiniensional problems, the generalization of WKB theory to the description of scattering problems is often called Miller-Marcus or classical. S-niatrix theory [ ]. The reader is refened to review articles for a more complete description of this theory [52]. 

Another way to obtain a relative permitivity is using some simple equations that relate relative permitivity to the molecular dipole moment. These are derived from statistical mechanics. Two of the more well-known equations are the Clausius-Mossotti equation and the Kirkwood equation. These and others are discussed in the review articles referenced at the end of this chapter. The com- 

A micelle-bound substrate will experience a reaction environment different from bulk water, leading to a kinetic medium effect. Hence, micelles are able to catalyse or inhibit organic reactions. Research on micellar catalysis has focused on the kinetics of the organic reactions involved. An overview of the multitude of transformations that have been studied in micellar media is beyond the scope of this chapter. Instead, the reader is referred to an extensive set of review articles and monographs"  

The direct dissociation of diatomic molecules is the most well studied process in gas-surface dynamics, the one for which the combination of surface science and molecular beam teclmiques allied to the computation of total energies and detailed and painstaking solution of the molecular dynamics has been most successful. The result is a substantial body of knowledge concerning the importance of the various degrees of freedom (e.g. molecular rotation) to the reaction dynamics, the details of which are contained in a number of review articles [2, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40 and 41]. 

This section will outline the simplest models for the spectra of both metal and semiconductor nanocrystals. The work described here has illustrated that, in order to achieve quantitative agreement between theory and experiment, a more detailed view of the molecular character of clusters must be incoriDorated. The nature and bonding of the surface, in particular, is often of crucial importance in modelling nanocrystal optical properties. Wlrile this section addresses the linear optical properties of nanocrystals, both nonlinear optical properties and the photophysics of these systems are also of great interest. The reader is referred to the many excellent review articles for more in-depth discussions of these and other aspects of nanocrystal optical properties [147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153 and 1541. 

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