Chemical Dynamics at Low Temperatures

by Victor A. Benderskii (Institute for Chemical Physics at Chernogolovka, Russia); Dmitrii E. Makarov (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); Charles A. Wight (Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City)

• ISBN13: 9780470142004
• ISBN10: 0470142006
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2009-09-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience

Summary

The first unified treatment of experimental and theoretical advances in low-temperature chemistry Chemical Dynamics at Low Temperatures is a landmark publication. For the first time, the cumulative results of twenty years of experimental and theoretical research into low-temperature chemistry have been collected and presented in a unified treatment. The result is a text/reference that both offers an overview of the subject and contains sufficient detail to guide practicing researchers toward fertile ground for future research. Topics covered include: * Developmental history * Formulation of general problems and the main approximations used to solve them * Specific features of tunneling chemical dynamics * One-dimensional tunneling in the path integral formalism * Special problems of two- and multidimensional tunneling * An extended presentation of pertinent experimental results

Table of Contents

From Thermal Activation to Tunneling

One-Dimensional Models

Two-Dimensional Tunneling

Chemical Dynamics in the Presence of a Heat Bath

Hydrogen Transfer

Tunneling Rotation

Vibration--Rotation Tunneling Spectroscopy of Molecules and Dimers

Heavy Particle Transfer

Conclusion

References

Indexes

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