We study the spectral and scattering theory of some n-dimensional anisotropic Schrödinger operators. The characteristic of the potentials is that they admit limits at infinity separately for each variable. We give a detailed analysis of the spectrum: the essential spectrum, the thresholds, a Mourre estimate, a limiting absorption principle and the absence of singularly continuous spectrum. Then the asymptotic completeness is proved and a precise description of the asymptotic states is obtained in terms of a suitable family of asymptotic operators. §1. IntroductionIn this paper we shall be interested in the spectral and scattering theory of some anisotropic Schrödinger operators H = −∆ + V in the Hilbert space L 2 (IR n ). A general theory for highly anisotropic potentials is still lacking, but various partial approaches are already well developed. The most famous one, and best achieved, is with no doubt the N-body problem (see [16]