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Reaction dynamics is an important field within physical chemistry, studying why chemical reactions occur, how to predict their behavior, and how to control them. It is closely related to chemical kinetics, but is concerned with individual chemical events on atomic length scales and over very brief time periods.^[1]

In 1986, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Dudley Herschbach, Yuan T. Lee, and John C. Polanyi "for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes",^[2] specifically crossed molecular beams and infrared chemiluminescence. These techniques probe the chemical physics associated with molecular collisions, such as how energy is distributed between translation, vibration, rotation, and electronic modes.

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^ Levine, Raphael (2005). Molecular Reaction Dynamics. Cambridge: Cambridge Univesity Press. p. xi. ISBN 0 521 84276 X.
^ "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1986". Nobelprize.org. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1986/index.html. Retrieved 2008-10-06.

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[Levine-0] Levine, Raphael (2005). Molecular Reaction Dynamics. Cambridge: Cambridge Univesity Press. p. xi. ISBN 0 521 84276 X.

[1] "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1986". Nobelprize.org. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1986/index.html. Retrieved 2008-10-06.

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