PROCESSES IN THE LIQUID-PHASE AND COMPUTE R EXPERIMENTS - FROM PHYSICS TO CHEMISTRY

Although the majority of experimentally interesting processes takes pl ace in the condensed phase, theoretical chemists prefer to deal with g as phase reactions because of the relative complexity of the former an d simplicity of the latter topic. Only recently, with the help of comp uter simulations, theoreticians have started to achieve a realistic de scripton of liquid state processes. It is shown in this paper how our knowledge gradually develops from the understanding of classical physi cal solute-solvent interactions towards a semi-quantum description of chemical reactivity in the liquid phase.