The results of a special research project carried out for "Molecular Approaches to Non-equilibrium Process in Solution" were presented during The 42nd Yamada Conference on "Structure, Fluctuation and Relaxation in Solution" which was held from 11-15 December, 1994. The following topics were discussed at the conference: 1. Solvation Dynamics 2. Relaxation, Fluctuation and Reaction Dynamics 3. Dynamic Structure and Reaction Mechanisms in Solutions. These topics were the main concern of this conference.

"Reprinted from the Journal of molocular [sic] liquids, volumes 65 and 66."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Organizing Committee and List of Participants -- Welcome Address -- Yamada Science Foundation and the Scope of Yamada Conference -- Executive Members of Foundation -- Chapter 1. Perspective of solution chemistry of Japan. The historical background and recent trends -- Chapter 2. Molecular theory of solvation processes in dipolar and non-dipolar solvents -- Chapter 3. An interaction-site representation of the dynamic structure factor of liquid and the solvation dynamics -- Chapter 4. The interplay of dielectric and mechanical relaxation in solvation dynamics -- Chapter 5. Fluctuating charge force fields for aqueous solutions -- Chapter 6. Solvation dynamics of dye molecules in polar solvents studied by time resolved hole burning Spectroscopy -- Chapter 7. Ultrafast measurements of the dynamics of solvation in polar and non-dipolar solvents -- Chapter 8. Solvent and nuclear dynamic effects on intermolecular electron transfer -- Chapter 9. Theory on rates of solution reactions influenced by slow fluctuations in viscous solvents, and its experimental confirmation -- Chapter 10. Dynamics of Brownian motion under a potential and theory on the rate of chemical reactions -- Chapter 11. Structural characteristics of hydrogen-bonded networks in water and ice systems -- Chapter 12. Structure and dynamics of supercooled and glassy aqueous ionic solutions -- Chapter 13. The structure and dynamics of aqueous solutions containing complex molecules -- Chapter 14. Liquid-liquid phase separations and critical behavior of electrolyte solutions driven by long-range and short-range interactions -- Chapter 15. Slow relaxation in pure and binary frozen-in systems -- Chapter 16. Slow dynamics in supercooled fluids -- Chapter 17. Density functional theory of solution dynamics -- Chapter 18. Dissociation and solvation in water and aqueous solutions -- Chapter 19. Effect of solvent, temperature, and pressure on hydrogen bonding and reorientation of water molecules -- Chapter 20. Collective vibrational dynamics of simple liquids -- Chapter 21. Mechanisms of dephasing in femtosecond time-resolved coherent Raman scattering from molecules in liquids -- Chapter 22. Ion solvation and ion association studied by infrared and microwave methods -- Chapter 23. Dynamical aspects of water by low-frequency Raman scattering -- Chapter 24. Ultrasonic relaxation study of fast exchange processes in mixed micelle systems of alcohol-decyltrimethylammonium bromide-water -- Chapter 25. Organometallic free radicals in solution -- Chapter 26. The structure of metal complexes of small models of glycoproteins in aqueous solution -- Chapter 27. Kinetic evidence for short-lived intermediates in metalloporphyrin formation -- Chapter 28. Structure and dynamics of solvated ions: new tendencies of research -- Chapter 29. The role of solvent in inorganic reaction mechanisms, as elucidated by high pressure studies -- Chapter 30. EXAFS of bromide ion in solvents and at air/solution interface -- Chapter 31. Redox properties of oxo-bridged di- and tri-nuclear complexes of heavy transition elements: stability of mixed-valence state -- Chapter 32. Study of the reduction of Co(NH3)4(pzCO2) 2+ by Fe(CN)6 4- in binary aqueous mixtures: an interpretation of solvent effects based on spectroscopic data -- Chapter 33. Ion pair of tetraalkylammonium picrates -- Chapter 34. Ion-pairing effects on the 59Co electric field gradients in the NMR relaxations of tripositive cobalt(Ill) complex ions -- Chapter 35. Concentration dependence of 59Co relaxation rates of tris(acetylacetonatao)-cobalt(Ill)in some organic solvents -- Chapter 36. Mechanistic study of oxidation reactions of hydroquinone, catechol, and L-ascorbic acid by dicyanobis(1,10-phenanthroline) iron(Ill) in dimethyl sulfoxide -- Chapter 37. Molecular orientation in fluids near solid-liquid interface as studied by the density functional method -- Chapter 38. The stability and dynamics of clathrate hydrates -- Chapter 39. Deviation of the TST rate constant through the nonlinear couplings -- Chapter 40. Spatial correlations in reaction-diffusion systems in nonequilibrium conditions -- Chapter 41. Nonlinear effects of solvation dynamics -- Chapter 42. Solvation dynamics studied by ultrafast transient hole burning -- Chapter 43. Hydrogen-bonded structure in aqueous sulfuric acid solutions -- Chapter 44. Raman spectroscopic study of rotational and vibrational relaxation of CF3H in the supercritical site -- Chapter 45. Anomalous conformational behavior of short poly(oxyethylene) chains in water: an FT-IR spectroscopic study -- Chapter 46. Time-resolved resonance Raman study of the recombination dynamics photodissociated carbon monoxide to sperm whale myoglobin and its mutants -- Chapter 47. Solvent viscosity dependence of bimolecular reaction rate constant of the excited 9-cyanoanthracene quenched by 1,3-cyctohexadiene -- Chapter 48. Extremely slow reorientation dynamics of molecular tracers in glassy polymers -- Chapter 49. Dynamics near a liquid surface: mechanisms of evaporation and condensation -- Chapter 50. The effect of ionic atmosphere on the tracer diffusion of micelles -- Chapter 51. Effect of addition of surfactant on the micelle-monomer exchange process -- Chapter 52. Dissipative structure in aqueous polymer solutions -- Chapter 53. Non-linear effects in the free energy profile of electron transfer reaction: an integral equation approach -- Chapter 54. Induction time of precipitation of calcium carbonate -- Chapter 55. Photophysical properties of viologen-linked N-alkylporphyrins and their zinc(ll) complexes in solutions -- Chapter 56. Conductometric study of hydrophobic properties of tris(1,10-phenanthroline) and tris(2,2'-bipyridine) complexes -- Chapter 57. Structure of the monohalogenocadmium(ll)complexes in N, N-dimethylformamide -- Chapter 58. Effect of pressure on the viscosity of aqueous cesium chloride solution at 25 oC -- Chapter 59. Melting behaviour in hexagonal CeCI3 and monoclinic ErCI3 crystals -- Chapter 60. Polarization effect on the static and dynamic properties of molten lithium iodide -- Chapter 61. Evaluation of thermodynamic quantities of fluid mixtures by the PY equation -- Chapter 62. Solvation free energy of protein reproduced by the combination of the extended scaled particle theory and the Poisson-Boltzmann equation -- Chapter 63. Transport properties of a spherical molecule in solvent with position-dependent viscosity -- Chapter 64. Liquid dynamics studied by higher order non-linear optical spectroscopy -- Chapter 65. Temperature dependence of singlet excitation energy migration in liquid benzene as revealed by picosecond laser photolysis -- Chapter 66. Solvent effect on ultra-fast electron transfer in mixed-valence biferrocene monocation -- Chapter 67. Translational diffusion of transient radicals studied by the transient grating method -- Chapter 68. Intra and intermolecular energy transfer in thermal dissociation in the gas and liquid N2O4 -- Chapter 69. Photoelectron emission spectroscopy applied to bromide ion in solvents -- Chapter 70. Direct comparison between femtosecond optical Kerr effect and high-resolution light scattering measurements -- Chapter 71. Vibrational cooling process in solution probed by picosecond time-resolved Raman spectroscopy. Analysis of the cooling kinetics -- Chapter 72. Rotational relaxation of rod like molecules: diphenylacetylene in various solvents -- Chapter 73. Ground state recovery of phenol blue in fluids near the gas- iquid critical density -- Chapter 74. Dynamics of two-component liquids near the glass transition -- Chapter 75. Relaxation characteristics of intracellular (Na + as measured by double quantum filtered (DQf) NMR.

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