edited by K Liu (Inst. of Atomic & Molecular Sci.) & A Wagner (Argonne Nat'l Lab.)

This book highlights recent progress in the chemistry of radicals. Developments include the growing use of lasers to generate radicals, the application of lasers to provide state, angular, polarization, energy and real-time resolution in kinetics and dynamics experiments, the development of theories for handling the reactions of radicals, and the simulation of the reaction dynamics of increasingly larger systems for direct comparison to experimental results. The book emphasizes the increasing interaction between experimental dynamics, kinetics and theory. It is appropriate for chemistry graduate students and researchers about to enter the field. However, the discussions of some topics progress to a more advanced level so that even an expert will find the book useful.

• Multichannel Radical Reactions (M R Heal & M J Pilling)
• The Reaction between CN and O₂: A Prototype Radical–Radical Reaction? (I W M Smith)
• Fourier Transform Infrared Emission Spectroscopy as a Tool for the Study of Chemical Reactions (P W Seakins)
• Experimental Studies of Rotationally Inelastic State-Resolved Collisions of Small Molecular Free Radicals (P J Dagdigian)
• Reactive Scattering of O(³P,¹D), Cl(²P) and OH Radicals (P Casavecchia et al.)
• Product State Distributions in Chemical Reactions: The Reaction OH + CO → H + CO₂ (K Kudla & G C Schatz)
• The HCO Potential Energy Surface: Probes Using Molecular Scattering and Photodissociation (D W Neyer & P L Houston)
• Radical Chemistry with Wave Packets (S K Gray & E M Goldfield)
• State-Resolved Studies of Molecular Dynamics by “Half-Collision” Techniques (P D Kleiber)
• Time-Resolved Studies of Cage Recombination Dynamics in Ionic Clusters (J M Papanikolas et al.)
• Doppler Spectroscopy, A Powerful Tool for Studying Molecular Collision Dynamics (J M Mestdagh et al.)
• The Stereodynamics of Photon Initiated Bimolecular Reactions (M Brouard & J P Simons)
• Orientation and Alignment of the Products of Bimolecular Reactions (A J Orr-Ewing & R N Zare)
• and other papers