Molecules in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology

'The book merits a place in any Science Library and I recommend it to anyone who shares the obvious fascination of the writers with molecules and accepts that molecular properties are often best described with the aid of mathematical expressions.' M. Godfrey, Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 269 (1989) '... provide a panoramic view of the status and potential of molecular sciences at the end of the nineteen eighties. This four-volume set ... represents a great value for any scientific library or private collections. creating a broad-based and rich mini-series on molecular sciences.' Structural Chemistry, 1:5

• Mathematical Molecular Physics.- The Mathematical Definition of a Molecule and Molecular Structure.- From Geometrical Molecules to Topological Molecules: A Quantum Mechanical View.- Relativistic Molecular Physics.- Ab-Initio Relativistic Quantum Chemistry.- Space-Curvature Effects in Atomic and Molecular-Structure Calculations.- Molecules in Space.- Organic and Exotic Molecules in Space.- Molecular Processes in the Interstellar Medium.- Small Molecular Structures.- Electric and Magnetic Properties for the Ground and Excited States of Molecular Hydrogen.- Photoionization Dynamics of Diatomic Molecules.- Low-Energy Electron-Molecule Dynamics.- Small Naked Homonuclear Clusters of Transition Metal Atoms.- Nonrigid and Large Systems.- Understanding the Structure and Spectra of Non-Rigid Molecules.- Effective Vibration-Rotation Hamiltonian of a Molecule with a Large-Amplitude Internal Motion.- Ultrafast Dynamics of Diphenyl Polyenes: Experiment, Theory and Models of Conformational Motion Properties.- Laser-Line Narrowing and Laser-Excited Shpol’skii Effect of Impurity Spectra of Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbon Solids.- Molecular Interactions.- Molecular Charge Distributions and Response Functions: Multipolar and Penetration Terms; Application to the Theory of Intermolecular Interactions.- Towards Classification and Analytical Description of Molecular Interactions Including Quantum-Mechanical Many-Body Effects.- A Reappraisal of the Hydrogen Bonding Interaction Obtained by Com bining Energy Decomposition Analyses and Counterpoise Corrections.- Theoretical Approaches to Crystals.- Ab-Initio Potential Functions for Crystals and Ab-Initio Crystal Orbitals.- Molecular-Orbital Approach to Crystal-Field Theory for Transition Elements in Solids.- Lutetium Bisphthalocyanine: TheFirst Molecular Semiconductor.- From Quantum Chemistry to Organic Optical Signal Processing: A Computer-Aided Molecular Engineering Approach.- Electronic Structure and the Classification of Materials.