**Author details**

Alexander I. Kokorin *N.Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics RAS, Moscow, Russian Federation* 

## **Acknowledgement**

The author thanks the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grant 12-03-00623\_a) for financial support of the work. I thank also Mrs. A. A. Goncharova, Mr. O. I. Gromov and Dr. I. A. Kokorin for their technical assistance in Chapter preparation.

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