A spectroscopist's view of energy states, energy transfers, and chemical reactions

Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Volumn 58, Issue , 2007, Pages 1-33

  Moore, C Bradley ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bimolecular reactions; Formaldehyde; Ketene; Lasers; Transition states; Unimolecular reactions; Vibrational energy transfer

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTIVITY; ENERGY TRANSFER; FORMALDEHYDE; ISOTOPES; LASERS; VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY;

BIMOLECULAR REACTIONS; QUANTUM RESONANCES; TRANSITION STATE; TRANSITION-STATE THEORY; UNIMOLECULAR REACTIONS; VIBRATIONAL ENERGY TRANSFER;

ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS;

EID: 34249937946     PISSN: 0066426X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.physchem.58.032806.104610     Document Type: Article

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