this series provides the chemical physics field with a forum for critical, authoritative evaluations of advances in every area of the discipline. volume 131 includes chapters on: polyelectrolyte dynamics hydrodynamics and slip at the liquid-solid interface structure of ionic liquids and ionic liquid compounds: are ionic liquids genuine liquids in the conventional sense? chemical reactions at very high pressure classical description of nonadiabatic quantum dynamics non-born oppenheimer variational calculations of atoms and molecules with exlicity correlated gaussian basis functions