Advances in Chemical Physics [Hardcover]

This is the only series of volumes available that represents the cutting edge of research relative to advances in chemical physics.  Provides the chemical physics field with a forum for critical, authoritative evaluations of advances in every area of the discipline.

• Continues to report recent advances with significant, up-to-date chapters.
• Contributing authors are internationally recognized researchers.

Toward Ab Initio Theory of Long-Distance Electron Tunneling in Proteins: Tunneling Currents Approach (A. Stuchebrukhov).

Magnetic Field Influence on Dynamics of Singlet-Triplet Conversion (V. Makarov & I. Khmelinskii).

Classical and Quantum Magnetization Reversal Studies in Nanometer-Sized Particles and Clusters (W. Wernsdorfer).

Dynamical Approach to Vibrational Relaxation (S. Okazaki).

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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 direl“I