Abstract
Arrhenius rate law is now more than hundred years old. The dynamical basis of this phenomenological law was provided by Kramers in early nineteenforties. Since late seventies, the extensive experimental investigation in chemical dynamics and allied areas centered around Kramers' dynamical rate theory. The present paper is an outline of further development of rate theory in quantum mechanical context which takes into account of thermal activation and tunneling within an unified description. The theory is based on a new scheme for quantum Brownian motion recently proposed by us to establish quantum analogues of Kramers', Smoluchowski and Fokker-Planck equations with true probability distribution functions in c-number phase space.
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