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Ultrafast reaction dynamics

M. Grubele, A. Kh. Ziwail

California Institute of Technology

Abstract: Reports that with new laser techniques and with gas phase and molecular beam experiments, it is now possible to determine the ultrafast motion in isolated chemical reactions–chemistry on the 10 to the minus 13-second time scale.

UDC: 541 + 621.378.325

DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.0161.199103d.0069

 English version: Physics–Uspekhi, 1990, 43:5, 24–33