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Laser and molecular beam techniques allow detailed study of many dynamical properties of single reactive collisions. The chemical scope of these methods is now very wide and includes internal state preparation of reactants, change of collision energies, state detection of products, and thus determination of state-to-state reaction rates. The great impact of laser spectroscopy on knowledge in the field of structure, molecular energy transfer and the mechanism of elementary chemical reactions is illustrated by a few selected examples, including studies in which laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) has been used to to determine the polarization of reaction products
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It is a pleasure to thank first my coworkers devoted to these studies of reaction dynamics, H. Ellerbusch, H. Hage, K.H. Meiwes-Broer, and U. Schühle. In addition, I thank D. Beck and R.N. Zare (Stanford) for their comments and suggestions. I wish to acknowledge support of my work by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Minister für Wissenschaft und Forschung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen.
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Engelke, F. Laser studies of reaction dynamics. Naturwissenschaften 70, 594–601 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00377401
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