1 Introduction 2 Plasmas Involving Molecules 2.1 Ionosphere 2.1.1 Energy Degradation of Photoelectrons 2.1.2 Optical Emission 2.1.3 Energy Balance and Transport Phenomena in Thermal Electrons 2.2 Interstellar Cloud . Gaseous Discharges ..1 Production and Maintenance of Plasmas ..2 Determination of Electron Energy Distribution Function .. Production of Active Species 2.4 Fusion Plasma 3 Collision Cross-Sections and Related ntities 3.1 Definitions and Fundamental Relations 3.2 Cross-Section in the ntum Theory 3.3 Scattering from a Spherical Potential 3.4 One-Body vs.Two-Body Problems 3.5 Experimental Methods to Obtain Cross-Sections 3.5.1 Measurement of Energy Loss of Electrons 3.5.2 Detection of Collision Products 3.5.3 Beam Attenuation Method 3.5.4 Merged Beam Method 3.5.5 Swarm Experiment Molecule as a Collision Partner 4.1 Molecular Structure and Energy Levels 4.2 Interaction of Charged Particles with Molecules 4.3 Electron Collision with a Diatomic Molecule 4.4 Remarks on the Collision with Polyatomic Molecules 4.5 The Born Approximation 5 Electron Collisions with Molecules 5.1 Collision Processes 5.2 Elastic Scattering 5.3 Momentum-Transfer 5.4 Rotational Transition 5.5 Vibrational Transition 5.6 Excitation of Electronic State 5.7 Ionization 5.8 Electron Attachment 5.8.1 Dissociative Attachment 5.8.2 Three-Body Attachment 5.8.3 Metastable Negative Ion 5.9 Emission 5.10 Dissociation 5.11 Total Scattering Cross-Section 5.12 Stopping Cross-Section 5.13 Collisions with Excited Molecules 6 Ion Collisions with Molecules 6.1 Characteristics of Ion Collisions Compared with Electron Collisions 6.2 Momentum-Transfer 6.3 Inelastic Scattering 6.4 Reaction 7 Electron Collisions with Molecular Ions 7.1 General Remarks 7.2 Electron-Ion Recombination 7.2.1 Three-Body Recombination 7.2.2 Dissociative Recombination 8 Summary of the Roles of the Molecular Processes in Plasmas A Order of Magnitude of Macroscopic ntities B Molecular Properties C Atomic Units and Evaluation of the Born Cross-Section C.1 Definition of Atomic Units C.2 Example of the Calculation of the Born Cross-Section for Rotational Transitions C.3 Example of the Calculation of the Born Cross-Section for Vibrational Transitions D Cross-Section Sets for H2, N2, H20, and CO2 E How to Find Cross-Section Data E.1 Data Compilations in Printed Form E.2 Journals Exclusively Focused on Atomic and Molecular Data E.3 Online Database E.4 Review Papers E.5 Conference F Data Compilations for Electron-Molecule Collisions G Data Compilations for Ion-Molecule Reactions and Related Processes References Index