Molecular reaction dynamics is the study of chemical and
physical transformations of matter at the molecular level. The
understanding of how chemical reactions occur and how to control
them is fundamental to chemists and interdisciplinary areas such as
materials and nanoscience, rational drug design, environmental and
astrochemistry. This book provides a thorough foundation to this
area. The first half is introductory, detailing experimental
techniques for initiating and probing reaction dynamics and the
essential insights that have been gained. The second part explores
key areas including photoselective chemistry, stereochemistry,
chemical reactions in real time and chemical reaction dynamics in
solutions and interfaces. Typical of the new challenges are
molecular machines, enzyme action and molecular control. With
problem sets included, this book is suitable for advanced
undergraduate and graduate students, as well as being supplementary
to chemical kinetics, physical chemistry, biophysics and materials
science courses, and as a primer for practising scientists.
目錄:
1. Understanding chemical reactions at the molecular level
2. Molecular collisions
3. Introduction to reactive molecular collisions
4. Scattering as a probe of collision dynamics
5. Introduction to polyatomic dynamics
6. Structural considerations in the calculation of reaction
rates
7. Photoselective chemistry: access to the transition state
region
8. Chemistry in real time
9. State-changing collisions: molecular energy transfer
10. Stereodynamics
11. Dynamics in the condensed phase
12. Dynamics of gas-surface interactions and reactions.