Macro, Micro and Nanobeams

Abstract

The objective of the pioneers of mol.-beam chem. was, in the first place, to do chem. under single-collision conditions, where all but the primary reactive events were eliminated. Their second aim was to localize the collision events in space, so that the speeds and angular distributions of the scattered species could be measured with respect to that localized region. Their third objective was to control the reagent attributes such as reagent energies and angles of approach (defined by electromagnetically aligning the mol. under attack). Scattering and reactions using mol. beams are discussed including surface-aligned photochem. and localized at. scattering. A review with 30 refs. [on SciFinder(R)]