Advances in Chemical Physics [Hardcover]

Reviews of previous volumes ...continues the tradition of this series on high-quality authoritative chapters in a wide-range of chemical physics topics. Journal of the American Chemical Society. The newest volume in the prestigious Advances in Chemical Physics Series, edited by Nobel Prize winner, Ilya Prigogine and renowned authority Stuart A. Rice, provides general information about a wide variety of topics in chemical physics. Experts present comprehensive analyses of subjects of interest, and encourage the expression of individual points of view. This approach to presenting an overview of a subject will both stimulate new research and serve as a personalized learning text for beginners in the field.The Infrared Spectral Density of Weak Hydrogen Bonds Within theLinear Response Theory (O. Henri-Rousseau & P. Blaise).

An Effective Hamiltonian to Treat Adiabatic and NonadiabaticEffects in the Rotational and Vibrational Spectra of DiatomicMolecules (R. Herman & J. Ogilvie).

The Role of the Stokes Phenomenon in NonadiabaticTransitions.

Finite Integral Representation of Characteristic Times ofOrientational Relaxation Processes: Application to the Uniform BiasForce Effect in Relaxation in Bistable Potentials (W.Coffey).

Lattice Cluster Theory of Multicomponent Polymer Systems: ChainSemiflexibility and Specific Interactions (K. Foreman & K.Freed).

Indexes.

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 Harvardlãa