CONTENTS:- 1. Introduction to Chemical Kinetics; 2. Reaction Rates and Mechanisms; 3. Concentration Dependence of Reaction Rates; 4. Half-Life of a Reactant; 5. Reaction Mechanisms and the Rate-Law Expression; 6. Elementary Reactions and Reaction Mechanisms; 7. Activation Energy and Temperature Dependence; 8. Collision Theory of Reaction Rates; 9. Transition State Theory; 10. Complex Reactions; 11. Kinetics of Vinyl Polymerisation; 12. Reactions in Liquid Solutions; 13. Catalyst and Catalysis; 14. Surface Catalysis; 15. Phase Transfer Catalysis; 16. Enzyme Catalysis; 17. Relaxation Methods; 18. Ultrafast Molecular Processes.
DESCRIPTION
The unusual approach of this text delivers for B.Sc. and M.Sc. students a clear and development approach into one of the harder areas of Physical Chemistry, i.e., chemical Kinetics, which is central to all chemistry. This text clarifies complex aspects of the more theoretical areas of Chemical Kinetics and the significance of the complex equations which so often baffle students. This text is scholarly, lucid and well written, with a combination of depth of coverage and clarity. There is a very clear account of potential energy surfaces which most students find intractable and a kindly and contemporary approach to modified collision theory, linking it with energy transfer, molecular beams, potential energy surface and trajectory calculations to give a unified picture of the theory and experiment.
