U.S.-Japan Cooperative Research: Electronic Structure Photodetachment Spectra, and Dynamics in Transition States of Chemical Reactions

该奖项支持为期两年的合作研究项目 马克·S教授爱荷华州州立大学的戈登和 名古屋大学的高冢和夫教授。 还参与了 美国方面是西北大学的乔治·沙茨教授 大学和加州研究所的文森特·麦考伊教授 技术的。 日本广岛大学的Satoshi Yabushita 和名古屋大学的Kimihiko Hirao也参与其中。 该项目将解决一个最重要的新的 过去五年化学的发展， Neumark和其他人开发的实验能力， 研究反应过渡态通过执行光剥离的 相关阴离子的电子，然后研究随后的 光剥离光谱学和动力学。 所有的调查人员， 理论化学家，将从几个方面解决这个问题， 互补的观点，包括电子结构理论， 基于时间相关和时间无关的动力学 形式主义和光电离光谱学和动力学。 通过 结合互补的专业知识，美国和日本的集团， 将能够开发基于当前 合作。

This award supports a two-year collaborative research project between Professor Mark S. Gordon of Iowa State University and Professor Kazuo Takatsuka of Nagoya University. Also involved on the U.S. side are Professor George Schatz of Northwestern University and Professor Vincent McKoy of the California Institute of Technology. In Japan Satoshi Yabushita of Hiroshima University and Kimihiko Hirao of Nagoya University are also involved. This project will address one of the most important new developments in chemistry during the past five years -- the experimental ability developed by Neumark and others to directly study reaction transition states by performing photodetachment of an electron from related anions and then studying the subsequent photodetachment spectroscopy and dynamics. The investigators, all theoretical chemists, will attack this problem from several complementary perspectives, including electronic structure theory, dynamics based on both time-dependent and time-independent formalisms, and photoionization spectroscopy and dynamics. By combining complementary expertise, the U.S. and Japanese groups will be able to develop insights that build on current collaborations.