State-Selected and State-to-State Ion-Molecules Reaction Dynamics details the recent experimental and theoretical accomplishments in the field to date by some of its foremost researchers and theorists. Divided into two parts, each of which separately describe the experimental and theoretical aspects of the field, State-Selected and State-to-State Ion-Molecule Reaction Dynamics is an accessible, well organized look at a highly useful and emerging chemical specialty.

Part 1: Experiment, contains eight in-depth studies, which illustrate the key experimental work being done in the field today:

• Chapter 1 provide a comprehensive review of the theory and application of inhomogeneous rf fields for the study of the dynamics of low-energy ion-molecules processes
• Chapter 2 describes the application of multiphoton ionization (MPI) for the preparation of reactant ion states
• Chapter 3 reviews the application of MPI schemes for state specific cross-section measurements involving transition metal cations
• Chapter 4 describes the development of the threshold photoelectron secondary ion coincidence (TESICO) method
• Chapter 5 presents the conceptual and practical aspects of a multicoincidence technique
• Chapter 6 details the experimental results obtained using the photoionization and differential reactivity methods
• Chapter 7 reviews the several recent crossed beam studies of charge transfer and collision-induced dissociation systems involving atomic and molecular ions
• Chapter 8 is a survey of 15 years of high resolution crossed beam scattering of protons with atoms, diatoms, and poly-atomic molecules

State-Selected and State-to-State Ion-Molecule Reaction Dynamics, Part 1: Experiment offers professionals a true state-of-the-science look at this fascinating and increasingly influential subject.

CHEUK-YIU NG is a professor in the Department of Chemistry at Iowa University of Science and Technology, Ames, Iowa. Dr. Ng has also been a Visiting Professor at the Universite Paris-Sud, France, and was named Honorary Professor of Chemistry at Zhengzhou University, China. He was editor of the monograph Vacuum Ultraviolet Photoionization and Photodissociation of Molecules and Clusters and has written over eighty technical papers. He is a member of both the American Physical Society and the American Chemical Society. Dr. Ng received his PhD in physical chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley.

MICHAEL BAER is a senior scientist in the Department of Physics and Applied Mathematics at the Soreq Nuclear Research Center, Yavne, Israel. Dr. Baer has been a Visiting Scientists at Oxford University and a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Molecular Science, Okazaki, Japan. Dr. Baer has written over a hundred technical papers as well as the 4-volume The Theory of Chemical Reaction Dynamics. Dr. Baer received his PhD in physics from the Hebrew University.

Inhomogeneous Rf Fields: A Versatile Tool for The Study Of  Processes with Slow Ions 1

By Dieter Gerlich

Multiphoton Ionization State Selection: Vibrational-Mode  And Rotational-State Control 177

By Scott L. Anderson

Control of Transition-Metal Cation Reactivity by Electronic State Selection 213

By James C. Weisshaar

State-Selected Charge Transfer and Chemical Reactions By The Tesico Technique 263

By Inosuke Koyano and Kenichiro Tanaka

Multicoincidence Detection in Beam Studies of Ion-Molecule Reactions: Technique and Application to X¹ + H₂ Reactions 309

By Jean-Claude Brenot and Marie Durup-Ferguson

State-Selected and State-To-State Ion-Molecule Reaction Dynamics by Photoionization and Differential Reactivity Methods 401

By Cheuk-Yiu Ng

Crossed-Molecular Beam Studies of State-To-State Reaction Dynamics 501

By Jean H. Futrell

Proton Energy Loss Spectroscopy as A State-To-State Probe Of  Molecular Dynamics 553

By Gereon Neidner-Schatteburg and J. Peter Toennies

Author Index 649

Subject Index 671