This work explores both molecular reaction dynamics and chemical kinetics, and their respective theories. The topics discussed include interaction potentials; relative motion and the collisional approach for chemical reaction in the gas phase; partition functions; transition state theory; unimolecular reactions; molecular reactions calculations; non-adiabatic transitions; surface kinetics; chemical reactions in solution; energetic changes in solvating a molecule; transition state theory in solution; models for diffusion; Kramer's theory of viscosity of solvent in chemical reactions; and...

This monograph is a second volume to an introductory text concerning molecular reaction dynamics, the use of mathematical model systems based on statistical assumptions to calculate the probability of a chemical reaction and chemical kinetics. It combines the theories of chemical kinetics and molecular reaction dynamics into a single location and includes coverage of Wavepacket propagation, potential energy surfaces, non-equilibrium solvation, photodissociation and more.