- Jean-Claude Lorquet
Jean-Claude Lorquet (born
September 19 ,1935 ) is a professor of Theoretical Chemistry at theUniversity of Liège . He is member of theInternational Academy of Quantum Molecular Science and author of over 100 scientific papers.Some of his students are also well-known for their contribution to quantum chemistry and reactivity:
Michèle Desouter-Lecomte ,Bernard Ley ,Françoise Remacle .Lorquet was born in Liège,
Belgium .Important contributions
* Theory of mass spectra.
* Study of reaction paths and of dissociation mechanisms of electronically excited molecularion s.
* Nonadiabatic interactions.
*Avoided crossing s andconical intersection s.
* Transition probabilities between two coupledpotential energy surface s.
* Statistical calculation ofrate constant s of nonadiabatic reactions.
* Validity of statistical theories of unimolecular reactions under collision-free conditions.
* Study of intramolecular vibrational energy relaxation, ofphase space sampling and of unimolecular laws of decay viaautocorrelation function s.
* Occurrence of quantum effects in competitive unimolecular reactions.
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