Infrared spectroscopy of helium nanodroplets: novel methods for physics and chemistry

MY Choi, GE Douberly, TM Falconer… - … Reviews in Physical …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Helium nanodroplets have emerged as a new and exciting medium for studying the structure
and dynamics of both this quantum solvent and impurities that can be doped into (onto) and …

State of the art and challenges of the ab initio theory of intermolecular interactions

G Chałasiński, MM Szczȩśniak - Chemical reviews, 2000 - ACS Publications
The past decade has seen explosive growth in experimental and theoretical studies of van
der Waals interactions. Considerable progress has been achieved toward understanding …

ABC: a quantum reactive scattering program

D Skouteris, JF Castillo, DE Manolopoulos - Computer Physics …, 2000 - Elsevier
This article describes a quantum mechanical reactive scattering program for atom–diatom
chemical reactions that we have written during the past several years. The program uses a …

Quantum dynamics of complex-forming bimolecular reactions

H Guo - International Reviews in Physical Chemistry, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Many gas-phase chemical reactions proceed via reaction intermediates, supported by
potential wells. The characteristics of such complex-forming reactions differ drastically from …

Quantum scattering calculations on chemical reactions

SC Althorpe, DC Clary - Annual review of physical chemistry, 2003 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract This review discusses recent quantum scattering calculations on bimolecular
chemical reactions in the gas phase. This theory provides detailed and accurate predictions …

Ultracold molecules and ultracold chemistry

MT Bell, T P. Softley - Molecular Physics, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
The recent development of a range of new methods for producing samples of gas-phase
molecules that are translationally cold (K) or ultracold (mK) is driving efforts to study reactive …

Slow electron velocity-map imaging of negative ions: Applications to spectroscopy and dynamics

DM Neumark - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2008 - ACS Publications
Anion photoelectron spectroscopy (PES) has become one of the most versatile techniques
in chemical physics. This article briefly reviews the history of anion PES and some of its …

Near-threshold inelastic collisions using molecular beams with a tunable velocity

JJ Gilijamse, S Hoekstra, SYT van de Meerakker… - Science, 2006 - science.org
Molecular scattering behavior has generally proven difficult to study at low collision
energies. We formed a molecular beam of OH radicals with a narrow velocity distribution …

Relative efficacy of vibrational vs. translational excitation in promoting atom-diatom reactivity: Rigorous examination of Polanyi's rules and proposition of sudden vector …

B Jiang, H Guo - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
To provide a systematic and rigorous re-examination of the well-known Polanyi's rules,
excitation functions of several A+ BC (v= 0, 1) reactions are determined using the …

Roaming radicals

JM Bowman, BC Shepler - Annual review of physical chemistry, 2011 - annualreviews.org
Roaming is a recently verified unusual pathway to molecular products from unimolecular
dissociation of an energized molecule. Here we present the evidence for this pathway for …