The book provides a penetrating and comprehensive description of energy selected reactions from a theoretical as well as experimental point of view. It presents three major aspects of unimolecular reactions involving the preparation of the reactants in selected energy states, the rate of dissipation of the activated molecule, and the partitioning of the excess energy among the final products.
The field of unimolecular reaction has witnessed impressive advances in both experimental and theoretical techniques during the past 20 years. These developments have resulted in experimental measurements that finally permit critical test of the major assumptions made more than 60 years ago when Rice and Ramsperger and Kassel first proposed their statistical RRK theory of unimolecular decay.
