Orientation and Polarisation Effects in Reactive Collisions

Abstract : Partial Contents: Alignment Measurements in Orbitally Selective Collision-induced Fluorescence; Alignment Effects involving Multiple Pathways: Electronic Energy Transfer of Sr 5s6p 1P1 with Rare Gases; Differential Scattering of Na(3P) from HF: Reactive and Non-reactive Processes; Orientational and Spin-orbital Dependence of Interatomic Forces; M(i) Selectivity in Collisional Energy Transfer between Alkali-metal Atoms; Determination of Molecular Orientation and Alignment from Polarized Laser Photofragmentation Measurements: Orientated CH3I Molecule Beams; Reactant Orientation-Product Polarisation Correlations: Collision Energy Dependence in the Ba + N2O yields BaO* + N2 Reactions; Products' Angular Distribution for Steroselective Reactions: Simple Optical and Kinematic Considerations; Stereochemical Influences in Atom-Triatomic Collisions; Orbital Orientation in van der Waals Reactions; Photoinitiated Reactions in Weakly Bonded Complexes; Orbital Polarization and Fine-structure Effects in Time-resolved Cooperative Flourescence from Dissociating Alkali-metal Diatoms; Vector and Product Quantum- state Correlations for Photofragmentation of Formaldehyde. Keywords: Photodissociation, Femtochemistry, Molecular rotation, Inelastic scattering, Desorption, Molecular vibration, Adsorption, Molecule molecule interactions, Spectroscopy, Coherence, Surfaces, Potential energy.