2001 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Reaction Dynamics in Manybody Chemical Systems---Complexity and Specificity of Chemical Dynamics and its Quantum Effects---
| Project/Area Number |
10206101
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Institution | Nagoya University |
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Principal Investigator |
OHMINE Iwao Nagoya University, Chemistry Department, Professor, 大学院・理学研究科, 教授 (60146719)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
KANDORI Hideki Kyoto University, Chemistry Department, Recturer, 大学院・理学研究科, 講師 (70202033)
TOMINAGA Keisuke Kobe University, Chemistry Department, Associate Professor, 理学部, 助教授 (30202203)
KATO Shigeki Kyoto University, Chemistry Department, Professor, 大学院・理学研究科, 教授 (20113425)
TERAJIMA Masahide Kyoto University, Chemistry Department, Associate Professor, 大学院・理学研究科, 助教授 (00188674)
TANAKA Hideki Okayama University, Chemistry Department, Professor, 理学部, 教授 (80197459)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1998 – 2001
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| Keywords | Condenced Phase / Chemical Reaction / Dynamics / Liquid Phase Reaction / Quatum Effects / Fluctuations / Complex Systems / Biomolecular Reactions |
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| Research Abstract |
We have investigated the molecular origin for the complexity and specificity of manybody chemical systems, such as chemical reaction dynamics in liquid phase and biomolecules. The reaction dynamics of those systems involves fluctuations and collective molecular motions. Experimental and theoretical studies have been made how to observe the most important motions leading to the specific reaction, which are imbedded in the noise of many particle random motions.. The methods were developed to deal with global nature of the potential energy surfaces(GPES) and the dynamics on this GPES. Highly nonlinear flash photolysis technique, especially in Infra-red region, was developed to deal with the phase space dynamics of the complex systems and Transient Grading technique for detect heat flow in molecular scale and in ultrafast time domain. Reactions of Bacteria rhodopsin and DNA molecules were examined to find our why the specific process always take place in biomolecular reactions. Quantum effects on vibrational relaxation and reaction dynamics were investigated for chemical reactions in hydrogen liquid.
Two international conferences in addition to five domestic conferences were held at Kyoto in 1999 and 2001.
In this year (2002) we summarize the report of whole three years activities (1998-2001) which contains more than 200 pages. Members of this research projects have been invited to many (more than 100) international conferences. More than 260 papers were published under this project. We also invited several distinguished foreign scientists to pursue the cooperative works.
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