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The Twenty Fourth Jerusalem Symposium reflected the high standards of these distinguished scientific meetings, which convene once a year at the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Jerusalem to discuss a specific topic in the broad area of quantum chemistry and biochemistry. The topic at this year's Jerusalem Symposium was mode selective chemistry, which constitutes a truly interdisciplinary subject of central interest in the areas of chemical physics, photochemistry and photobiology. The main theme of the Symposium was built around the exploration of the possibility and conditions for non-statistical reaction dynamics in molecules, van der Waals molecules, clusters and condensed phases. The main issues addressed photoselective and coherent excitation modes, bottlenecks for intramolecular vibrational energy redistribution, the consequences of the internal structure of many-atom systems and of rotational vibrational level structure for intramolecular dynamics, bond selective photodissociation, ultrafast chemical clocks for energy disposal, coherent control of photochemical reactions and nonstatistical unimolecular reaction dynamics. The interdisciplinary nature of this research area was deliberated by intensive and extensive interactions between theory and experiment. This volume provides a record of the invited lectures at the Symposium.
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M O D E SELECTIVE CHEMISTRY T H E JERUSALEM SYMPOSIA O N Q U A N T U M CHEMISTRY A N D BIOCHEMISTRY Published by the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, distributed by Academic Press (NY.) 1. The Physicochemical Aspects of Carcinogenesis (October 1968) 2. Quantum Aspects of Heterocyclic Compounds in Chemistry and Biochemistry (April 1969) 3. Aromaticity, Pseudo-Aromaticity, Antiaromaticity (April 1970) 4. The Purines: Theory and Experiment (April 1971) 5. The Conformation of Biological Molecules and Polymers (April 1972) Published by the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, distributed by D. Reidel Publishing Company (Dordrecht, Boston, Lancaster, and Tokyo) 6. Chemical and Biochemical Reactivity (April 1973) Published and distributed by D. Reidel Publishing Company (Dordrecht, Boston, Lancaster, and Tokyo) 7. Molecular and Quantum Pharmacology (March/April 1974) 8. Environmental Effects on Molecular Structure and Properties (April 1975) 9. Metal-Ligand Interactions in Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry (April 1976) 10. Excited States in Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry (March 1977) 11. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy in Molecular Biology (April 1978) 12. Catalysis in Chemistry and Biochemistry Theory and Experiment (April 1979) 13. Carcinogenesis: Fundamental Mechanisms and Environmental Effects (April/May 1980) 14. Intermolecular Forces (April 1981) 15. Intermolecular Dynamics (Maart/April 1982) 16. Nucleic Acids: The Vectors of Life (May 1983) 17. Dynamics on Surfaces (April/May 1984) 18. Interrelationship Among Aging, Cancer and Differentiation (April/May 1985) 19. Tunneling (May 1986) 20. Large Finite Systems (May 1987) Published and distributed by Kluwer Academic Publishers (Dordrecht, Boston, London) 21. Transport through Membranes: Carriers, Channels and Pumps (May 1988) 22. Perspectives in Photosynthesis (May 1989) 23. Molecular Basis of Specificity in Nucleic Acid-Drug Interaction (May 1990) 24. Mode Selective Chemistry (May 1991) V O L U M E 24 MODE SELECTIVE CHEMISTRY PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH JERUSALEM SYMPOSIUM ON QUANTUM CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY HELD IN JERUSALEM, ISRAEL, M A Y 20-23,1991 Edited by J. J O R T N E R The Israel Academy of Sciences of Humanities, Jerusalem, Israel R.D. LEVINE The Fritz Haber Center for Molecular Dynamics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel and B. PULLMAN Institut de Biologie