New Trends in Kramers’ Reaction Rate Theory: Understanding Chemical Reactivity, cartea 11

1. Introduction.- 2. Variational Transition State Theory in Condensed Phases.- 3. Anharmonic Barrier Corrections for Kramers’ Rate-Problem in the Spatial Diffusion Regime.- 4. The Theory of Multi-Barrier Crossing.- 5. Surmounting Fluctuating Barriers.- 6. Noise-Induced Transitions and Chemical Rate Laws.- 7. Invariant Densities and Escape Rates for Maps with Weak Gaussian Noise.- 8. First Passage Time Renormalization and Escape from an Imperfect Trap.- 9. Stretched Times and Divergent Time Scales.- 10. A Feynman Path Integral Formulation of Quantum Mechanical Transition State Theory.- 11. Recent Developments in the Quantum Mechanical Theory of Chemical Reaction Rates.