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Quantum mechanical reactive scattering theory provides the most complete description of a chemical reaction allowed by the basic laws of nature. Thus ever since the 1960’s, when crossed molecular beam experiments opened the door to studying reactions at the most detailed state-to-state level, there has been intense interest and effort devoted to developing the theory to the practical stage that calculations can be carried out for real chemical reactions. These lectures review reactive scattering theory, in particular recent theoretical developments that have played a key role in the dramatic theoretical advances since -1987. Two other recent reviews that I recommend are refs. 1 and 2.
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Miller, W.H. (1992). Quantum Mechanical Scattering Theory for Chemical Reactions. In: Wilson, S., Diercksen, G.H.F. (eds) Methods in Computational Molecular Physics. NATO ASI Series, vol 293. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7419-4_19
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