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

该奖项支持爱荷华州立大学的Mark S.Gordon教授和名古屋大学的Kazuo Takatsuka教授之间为期两年的合作研究项目。美国方面还包括西北大学的乔治·沙茨教授和加州理工学院的文森特·麦考伊教授。在日本，广岛大学的安下智和名古屋大学的平井贵彦也参与其中。这个项目将解决过去五年中化学中最重要的新发展之一--Neumark和其他人开发的通过执行电子从相关阴离子上的光分离，然后研究随后的光分离光谱和动力学来直接研究反应过渡态的实验能力。研究人员都是理论化学家，他们将从几个互补的角度来解决这个问题，包括电子结构理论，基于含时和含时形式的动力学，以及光电离光谱和动力学。通过结合互补的专业知识，美国和日本的团队将能够在当前合作的基础上开发洞察力。

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.