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We also showed that the photoemission intensities of such a complex system as CusPts on a platinum substrate can be calculated in good agreement with experiments and this renders confidence into the power of the theoretical methods and the underlying principles. 

The knowledge of turbulent premixed flames has improved from this very simple level by following the progress made in experimental and numerical techniques as well as theoretical methods. Much employed in early research, the laboratory Bunsen burners are characterized by relatively low turbulence levels with flow properties that are not constant everywhere in the flame. To alleviate these restrictions, Karpov et al. [5] pioneered as early as in 1959 the studies of turbulent premixed flames initiated by a spark in a more intense turbulence, produced in a fan-stirred quasi-spherical vessel. Other experiments carried out among others by Talantov and his coworkers allowed to determine the so-called turbulent flame speed in a channel of square cross-section with significant levels of turbulence [6]. 

The probe molecules of greatest historical interest in catalysis are the Hammett indicators [13]. The difficulty of making reliable visual or spectrophotometric observations of the state of protonation of these species on solids is well known. We have recently carried out the first NMR studies of Hanunett indicators on solid acids [ 14]. This was also the occasion of the first detailed collaboration between the authors of this article, and theoretical methods proved to strongly compliment the NMR experiments. The Hanunett story is told after first reviewing the application of theoretical chemistry to such problems. Central to the application of any physical method in chemistry is the process of modeling the relationship between the observables and molecular structure. However often one does this, it is rarely an exact process. One can rationalize almost any trend in isotropic chemical shift as a function of some variation in molecular structure - after the fact, but the quantitative prediction of such trends in advance defies intuition in most nontrivial cases. Even though the NMR spectrum is a function... 

The agreement shown between calculations and experiment gives eonfidence both in the theoretical method used here, and in the analysis of experimental speetra, in particular in the case of metastable state. Furthermore, the interpretation of the transfer-excitation process is straight forward from the knowledge of the potential energy curves of the collisional system. 

Quantum mechanical and selected semiclassical and semiempirical methods for the calculation of electron impact ionization cross sections are described and their successes and limitations noted. Experimental methods for the measurement of absolute and relative ionization cross sections are also described in some detail. Four theoretical methods, one quantum mechanical and three semiclassical, have been used to calculate cross sections for the total ionization of the inert gases and small molecules and the results compared with experimental measurements reported in the literature. Two of the theoretical methods, one quantum mechanical and one semiclassical, have been applied to the calculation of orientation-dependent electron impact ionization cross sections and the results compared with recent experiments. 

When we are working with such complicated objects like polyatomic molecules and metals, we are not able to describe completely the real system, and, consequently, we are forced to construct its model, the properties of which should satisfy the following conditions (1) it should be tractable by the contemporary theoretical methods (2) it has to simulate as much as possible the behavior of the real system and (3) it must not contradict any experimental results. Thus, the model is the point where the theory and experiments meet their mutual requirements, and where they directly influence each other ( ). 

There is now an extensive and rapidly growing theoretical literature on the nature of hydrogen or muonium defects in silicon and to some extent in other semiconductors (Van de Walle, 1991 DeLeo, 1991). Much of this has dealt with isolated hydrogen or muonium where the most frequent comparisons have been with the muon hyperfine parameters, at least qualitatively, and other features of the muonium centers that can be inferred from /rSR experiments. Isolated interstitial hydrogen or muonium is certainly one of the simplest point defects conceivable. Hence explaining the existence and properties of the two drastically different forms of muonium observed in silicon and several other semiconductors has been a particular challenge to current theoretical methods. 

The data collected are subjected to Fourier transformation yielding a peak at the frequency of each sine wave component in the EXAFS. The sine wave frequencies are proportional to the absorber-scatterer (a-s) distance /7IS. Each peak in the display represents a particular shell of atoms. To answer the question of how many of what kind of atom, one must do curve fitting. This requires a reliance on chemical intuition, experience, and adherence to reasonable chemical bond distances expected for the molecule under study. In practice, two methods are used to determine what the back-scattered EXAFS data for a given system should look like. The first, an empirical method, compares the unknown system to known models the second, a theoretical method, calculates the expected behavior of the a-s pair. The empirical method depends on having information on a suitable model, whereas the theoretical method is dependent on having good wave function descriptions of both absorber and scatterer. 

As discussed in section 2.4.4 the coordinating ability of a solvent will often affect the rate of nucleation and crystal growth differently between two polymorphs. This can be used as an effective means of process control and information on solvent effects can often be obtained from polymorph screening experiments. There are no theoretical methods available at the present time which accurately predict the effect of solvents on nucleation rates in the industrial environment. 

An extensive study of the conformational behavior of perhydroazepine 66 was carried out by Espinosa and coworkers105. This pure force field based analysis, with no reference to experiment or other theoretical methods, was part of a series of studies on cycloheptane, cycloheptene and some of their oxygen, sulfur and nitrogen heterocyclic analogs. MM2... 

Comparison with experiment and other theoretical methods... 

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