Chapter 1. Introduction

摘要

1 Introduction By G. A. WEBB Department of Chemistry University of Surrey Guildford Surrey UK GU2 5XH Volume 94 of Annual Reports on the Progress of Chemistry Section C consists of a collection of core and more specialised topics from the areas of Chemical Physics and Physical Chemistry as established in previous members of this series. It gives me much pleasure to introduce the eleven egregious reports which comprise this volume. As usual it has been a very pleasant and rewarding duty for me to have the opportunity to read these reports and I wish to take this opportunity to express my sincere gratitude to the authors who furnished them and to the sta§ at the Royal Society of Chemistry who are responsible for the production of this volume. The topics presented are New trends in ab initio valence bond theory by P.B. Karadakov; Quantum mechanical treatment of enzyme reactions by G. Na� ray-Szabo� and D. K. Menyha� rd; Dispersive kinetics by A. Plonka; Charge densities from X-ray di§raction data by M. A. Spackman; Organised molecular assemblies on the surfaces of inorganic solids–photofunctional inorganic–organic supramolecular systems by M. Ogawa; Nuclear quadrupole resonance and relaxation by J. A. S. Smith; Photofragment fluorescence following vacuum ultraviolet excitation using synchrotron radiation by J. C. Whitehead; Recent applications and developments in ZEKE spectroscopy by M. C. R. Cockett K. Mu� ller-Dethlefs and T. G. Wright; Femtosecond phase spectroscopy by T. Kobayashi; Optimal control of molecular dynamics by light presented by Y.-J. Yan; and finally S. L. Randzio has reported on Recent developments in calorimetry. My thanks go to all of these reporters for the prompt production of accounts which are comprehensive without being prolix in d