In the last decades, chemical physics has attracted an everincreasing
amount of interest. The variety of problems, such as
those of chemical kinetics, molecular physics, molecular spectroscopy,
transport processes, thermodynamics, the study of the state
of matter, and the variety of experimental methods used, makes
the great development of this field understandable. But the
consequence of this breadth of subject matter has been the scattering
of the relevant literature in a great number af publications.
Despite this variety and the implicit difficulty of exactly
defining the topic of chemical physics, there are a certain number
of basic problems that concern the properties of individual
molecules and atoms as well as the behavior of statistical ensembles
of molecules and atoms. This new series is devoted to
this group of problems which are characteristic of modern chemical
physics