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Features of Potential Energy Surfaces and Their Effect on Collisions

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In this chapter we shall discuss molecular rearrangement collisions that take place on a single potential energy surface. Nonreactive collisions, particularly those involving vibrational energy transfer, are treated in Chapter 4 of Part A; multipotential processes are treated in Chapter 5 of Part B. Because most of the work devoted to the correlation of collision phenomena with features of potential energy functions has been done within the framework of classical mechanics, the major part of the discussion will utilize the language appropriate to such a description of the motion. For most chemical systems, such a treatment is entirely adequate.

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