Molecular Liquids: New Perspectives in Physics and Chemistry

In its combination of an advanced teaching standpoint with an emphasis on new perspectives and recent advances in the study of liquids formed by simple molecules, Molecular Liquids: New Perspectives in Physics and Chemistry provides a clear, understandable guide through the complexities of the subject. A wide range of topics is covered in the areas of intermolecular forces, statistical mechanics, the microscopic dynamics of simple liquids, thermodynamics of solutions, nonequilibrium molecular dynamics, molecular models for transport and relaxation in fluids, liquid simulations, statistical band shape theories, conformational studies, fast-exchange dynamics, and hydrogen bonding. The experimental techniques covered include: neutron scattering, X-ray diffraction, IR, Raman, NMR, quasielastic neutron scattering, and high-precision, time-resolved coherent Raman spectroscopy.

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Radiation scattering experiments on fluids.- Illustrations of radiation scattering data.- Diffraction studies of spatial correlations in disordered molecular assemblies.- Microscopic dynamics in simple liquids.- Smoluchowski-Vlasov equations, reference memory function approximation, and molecular models for transport and relaxation in fluids.- Basic theory of intermolecular forces.- Conformational studies in organic liquids.- Dynamical properties of simple molecular liquids.- Thermodynamics of solutions, especially dilute solutions of nonelectrolytes.- Molecular dynamics simulation of non-simple liquids.- Time-, frequency- and polarization- resolved infrared spectroscopy of hydrogen-bonded systems.- Computer simulation study of the bond-angle distributions and relative diffusion in liquids.- Ion-ion interaction in a polarizable medium.- Experimental approach to the internal field problem.- Vibrational spectroscopic studies of intermolecular dynamics in organic liquids.- Raman spectroscopic studies on the interaction and dynamics of N,N-dimethylformamide in the liquid phase. The effect of isotopic dilution.- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and Quasielastic Neutron Scattering (QNS) of molecular liquids.- Structure and properties of molten metal carboxylates.- A comparative study of molecular correlation times of CS2/CC14 mixtures as observed by means of far infrared, Raman and Rayleigh spectroscopy.- Application of an equilibrium renewal process to inhomogeneously-broadened vibrational spectra of condensed phases.- Incoherent inelastic neutron scattering from molecular liquids. Study of semiclassical corrections.- Dynamic cross correlations in molten salts and soft-sphere binary liquid mixtures. A molecular dynamics study..- High pressure study of collision induced light scattering in CO2-Kr mixture.- Second and third virial coefficients of collision-induced absorption and light scattering.- The influence of relaxation processes in matrices on the spectroscopic properties of the solvated electron.- Investigation of structure in liquids by the temperature dependence of depolarized light scattering.- Chemical kinetics and vibrational spectroscopy: An analysis of weak charge-transfer complexing reactions.- Structure of liquid cyclopropane.- Computer simulation of the vibrational spectrum of a system with ultrafast chemical reaction.- Nonequilibrium molecular dynamics of classical fluids.- MD simulation of depolarized Rayleigh and FIR spectra in binary liquid mixtures.- Short contributions: titles and authors.- Author index.