Advances in Chemical Physics, Volume 159

This volume of Advances in Chemical Physics is dedicated, by the contributors, to Moshe Shapiro, formerly Canada Research Chair in Quantum Control in the Department of Chemistry at the University of British Columbia and Jacques Mimran Professor of Chemical Physics at the Weizmann Institute, who passed away on December 3, 2013. It focuses primarily on the interaction of light with molecules, one of Moshe's longstanding scientific loves. However, the wide range of topics covered in this volume constitutes but a small part of Moshe's vast range of scientific interests, which are well documented in over 300 research publications and two books.

Contributors to Volume 159 ix Preface to the Series xi Dynamics of Photochemical Reactions of Organic Carbonyls and their Clusters 1 by Dorit Shemesh and R. Benny Gerber Photoinduced Bond Cleavage as a Probe of Mode Specificity and Intramolecular Dynamics in Rovibrationally Excited Triatomic to 10 Atom Molecules 23 by Salman Rosenwaks and Ilana Bar Controlling Quantum Dynamics with Assisted Adiabatic Processes 51 by Shumpei Masuda and Stuart A. Rice From Coherent to Incoherent Dynamical Control of Open Quantum Systems 137 by Gershon Kurizki and Analia Zwick Piecewise Adiabatic Passage in Polarization Optics: an Achromatic Polarization Rotator 219 by Bruce W. Shore, Andon Rangelov, Nikolay V. Vitanov and Klaas Bergmann Ultrafast and Efficient Control of Coherent Electron Dynamics via SPODS 235 by Tim Bayer, Matthias Wollenhaupt, Hendrike Braun and Thomas Baumert Toward Coherent Control Around the Quantum-Classical Boundary 283 by Hiroyuki Katsuki and Kenji Ohmori Effects of Electromagnetic Fields on Molecular Scattering 313 by R. V. Krems Quantum Dynamics by Partitioning Technique 349 by Ioannis Thanopulos Laser Control of Ultrafast Molecular Rotation 395 by Valery Milner and John W. Hepburn Index 413