Gas phase chemical reaction systems : experiments and models 100 years after Max Bodenstein : proceedings of an International Symposion, held at the "Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg", Heidelberg, Germany, July 25-28, 1995

I Microscopic Dynamics of Elementary Reactions: Experiment.- Femtochemistry and Max Bodenstein's Impact (With 5 Figures).- Laserspectroscopic Studies of Bimolecular Elementary Reaction Dynamics in the Gas Phase (With 7 Figures).- Spectators and Participants in Vibrational State Controlled Bimolecular Reactions (With 6 Figures).- Reaction Product Imaging: The H + HI Reaction (With 6 Figures).- Dynamics at Unimolecular Transition States (With 7 Figures).- The Reactions of Na2 with O2 (With 12 Figures).- Reaction Dynamics of Three-Atom and Four-Atom Systems (With 6 Figures).- II Microscopic Dynamics of Elementary Reactions: Theory.- "Die photochemische Bildung des Chlorwasserstoffs" Dynamics of Cl + H2 ? HC1 + H on a New Potential Energy Surface: The Photosynthesis of Hydrogen Chloride Revisited 100 Years After Max Bodenstein (With 4 Figures).- Cross Sections and Rate Constants for Triatomic and Tetraatomic Reactions: Three-Dimensional Quantum Mechanical Calculations (With 9 Figures).- Mode-Specific Chemistry in the H + HCN and H + N2O Reactions (With 4 Figures).- Dynamics of Chemical Reactions Induced by Cluster Impact (With 10 Figures).- III Investigations of Thermal Kinetics: Experiment.- The Hydrogen-Iodine Reactions: 100 Years Later (With 2 Figures).- Recent Advances in the Measurement of High-Temperature Bimolecular Rate Constants (With 5 Figures).- Kinetics at Ultra-low Temperatures: Non-Arrhenius Behaviour and Applications to the Chemistry of Interstellar Clouds (With 3 Figures).- IV State Specific and Thermal Rates: Theory.- The Influence of Hindered Rotations on Recombination/Dissociation Kinetics (With 6 Figures).- State-to-State Reaction Dynamics of Polyatomic Molecules (With 2 Figures).- Effects of OH Rotation on the CH4 + OH ? CH3 + H2O Reaction (With 2 Figures).- Pathways of Vibrational Relaxation of Diatoms in the Collisions with Atoms: Manifestation of the Ehrenfest Adiabatic Principle (With 2 Figures).- V Heterogeneous Reactions.- Reactions at Surfaces: Bodenstein's Impact and Some Current Aspects (With 5 Figures).- Heterogeneous Chemistry in the Atmosphere (With 4 Figures).- Simulation of Heterogeneous Reaction Systems (With 7 Figures).- Chemical Kinetic Modelling of Hydrocarbon Ignition (With 3 Figures).- VI Modelling of Flow, Turbulence and Complex Chemical Reactions.- Using Direct Numerical Simulation with Detailed Chemistry to Study Turbulent Combustion (With 13 Figures).- Stability of Reaction Fronts (With 6 Figures).- Modelling the Formation of N2O and NO2 in the Thermal De-NOx Process (With 8 Figures).- Simplifying Chemical Kinetics Using Intrinsic Low-Dimensional Manifolds (With 4 Figures).- Index of Contributors.