Advances in Chemical Physics, Volume 110

by Prigogine, Ilya; Rice, Stuart A.

• ISBN13: 9780471331803
• ISBN10: 0471331805
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-10-08
• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience

Summary

This series provides the chemical physics field with a forum for critical, authoritative evaluations of advances in every area of the discipline. Volume 131 includes chapters on: Polyelectrolyte Dynamics; Hydrodynamics and Slip at the Liquid-Solid Interface; Structure of Ionic Liquids and Ionic Liquid Compounds: Are Ionic Liquids Genuine Liquids in the Conventional Sense?; Chemical Reactions at Very High Pressure; Classical Description of Nonadiabatic Quantum Dynamics; and Non-Born Oppenheimer Variational Calculations of Atoms and Molecules with Explicitly Correlated Gaussian Basis Functions.

Author Biography

ILYA PRIGOGINE is Director of the Instituts Internationaux de Physique et de Chimie, E. Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. Dr. Prigogine is also the Ashbel Smith Professor of Physics at The University of Texas at Austin, where he is also Director of the Ilya Prigogine Center for Studies in Statistical Mechanics and Complex Systems. In 1977 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

STUART A. RICE received his master's and doctorate from Harvard University and was a Junior Fellow at Harvard for two years before joining the faculty of The University of Chicago in 1957 where he remains a well-known theoretical chemist who also does experimental research and is currently the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at The University of Chicago. Professor Rice has served the university in a wide variety of capacities during his forty-eight year tenure. He served as the director of the James Franck Institute (the university's center for physical chemistry and condensed matter physics) from 1961 to 1967, was Chairman of the Department of Chemistry from 1971 to 1976 and was Dean of the Physical Sciences Division from 1981 to 1995. In 1999 he received the National Medal of Science.
In addition to his work at the University, he is currently on the Board of Governors at Argonne National Laboratory, managed by and affiliated with The University of Chicago, as well as Tel Aviv University. He has served as editor for Chemical Physics Letters, in addition to the series on Advances in Chemical Physics. He currently maintains a full research lab but has retired from teaching classes.

Table of Contents

A Critical Assessment of the Coupled Cluster Method in Quantum Chemistry	1	(176)
Josef Paldus
Xiangzhu Li
On the Electronic Spectra of Small Linear Polyenes	177	(38)
Ruth McDiarmid
Understanding Electron Correlation: Recent Progress in Molecular Synchrotron Photoelectron Spectroscopy	215	(52)
A.D.O Bawagan
E.R. Davidson
Developments in Parallel Electronic Structure Theory	267	(28)
G.D. Fletcher
M.W. Schmidt
M.S. Gordon
Experimental and Theoretical Bubble Dynamics	295	(86)
W. Lauterborn
T. Kurz
R. Mettin
C.D. Ohl
Acid-Base Proton Transfer and Ion Pair Formation in Solution	381	(50)
Koji Ando
James T. Hynes
Structures, Spectroscopies, and Reactions of Atomic Ions with Water Clusters	431
Kiyokazu Fuke
Kenro Hashimoto
Suehiro Iwata