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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Volume 2010, Article ID 367180, 24 pages doi:10.1155/2010/367180 Review Article The Distorted-Wave Born Approach for Calculating Electron-Impact Ionization of Molecules Don H. Madison and Ola Al-Hagan Department of Physics, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO 65409, USA Correspondence should be addressed to Don H. Madison, madison@mst.edu Received 29 November 2009; Accepted 4 January 2010 Academic Editor: Derrick S. F. Crothers Copyright © 2010 D. H. Madison and O. Al-Hagan. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The distorted-wave Born approximation (DWBA) has been one of the most successful theoretical approaches for treating electron collisions with complicated atoms, and recently the DWBA has been successfully extended to treat electron-impact ionization of molecules. The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of that development and to provide a summary of the recent experimental and theoretical works examining low to intermediate energy electron-impact single ionization of molecules. 1. Introduction Advances on the theoretical side now allow for an essentially exact numerical calculation of one of the simplest One of the most fundamental, unsolved problems in physics three-body problems, namely, electron-impact ionization of is the few-body problem. The few-body problem arises from hydrogen [6–8].