Studies of Dynamical Selectivity

Stuart Rice教授获得理论与计算化学计划的资助，继续他有关分子过程动态选择性的理论研究，特别是那些与化学反应中产物形成有关的理论研究。这些研究将有助于发展通过使用脉冲激光激发来影响化学反应过程的实验技术。Rice教授将继续完善和扩展Tannor-Rice方案，以控制化学反应中产物形成的选择性。他还将把最近发展起来的戴维斯-格雷-赖斯版本的单分子反应速率理论扩展到具有多个自由度的系统，并提出该理论的量子力学版本。最后，赖斯还将继续他的研究，检查量子力学系统中混沌的特征。

Professor Stuart Rice is supported by a grant from the Theoretical and Computational Chemistry Program to continue his theoretical research involving dynamical selectivity of molecular processes, particularly those which are related to product formation in chemical reactions. Such studies will help in the development of experimental techniques which influence the course of a chemical reaction through the use of pulsed laser excitation. Professor Rice will continue to refine and extend the Tannor-Rice scheme for controlling the selectivity of product formation in chemical reactions. He will also extend the recently developed Davis-Gray-Rice version of unimolecular reaction rate theory to systems with many degrees of freedom and the formulation of a quantum mechanical version of the theory. Finally, Rice will also continue his research examining the signatures of chaos in quantum mechanical systems.