Advances in Chemical Physics, Volume 127 covers recent advances at the cutting edge of research relative to chemical physics. The series, Advances in Chemical Physics, provides a forum for critical, authoritative evaluations of advances in every area of the discipline.

Ilya Prigogine is Director of the International Solvay Institutes in Brussels, Bel-gium. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1977.

Stuart A. Rice is Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor in the James Franck Institute and the Department of Chemistry at the University of Chicago.