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Vibrational Predissociation of van der Waals Molecules and Intermolecular Potential Energy Surfaces

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Potential Energy Surfaces and Dynamics Calculations

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Historically, spectroscopic experiments have been primarily responsible for defining structures and potential energy surfaces of chemically bonded molecules. These experimental results and the theoretical models of quantum chemistry have been worked up together to give us the detailed understanding of the chemical bond that we now have. In the last decade this history is being rerun, but now the objects of study are van der Waals molecules. Spectroscopy on these weakly bound complexes, produced at low temperatures where their stability is favored, has yielded structures and, often with the help of scattering experiments, rather complete intermolecular potential energy surface mappings. The structures that have been found are often surprising since for van der Waals molecules we do not have the reliable guides for geometries that we have for chemically bonded molecules.

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Ewing, G.E. (1981). Vibrational Predissociation of van der Waals Molecules and Intermolecular Potential Energy Surfaces. In: Truhlar, D.G. (eds) Potential Energy Surfaces and Dynamics Calculations. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1735-8_3

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