Chemical Kinetics bridges the gap between beginner and specialist with a path that leads the reader from the phenomenological approach to the rates of chemical reactions to the state-of-the-art calculation of the rate constants of the most prevalent reactions: atom transfers, catalysis, proton transfers, substitution reactions, energy transfers and electron transfers. For the beginner provides the basics: the simplest concepts, the fundamental experiments, and the underlying theories. For the specialist shows where sophisticated experimental and theoretical methods combine to offer a panorama of time-dependent molecular phenomena connected by a new rational. Chemical Kinetics goes far beyond the qualitative description: with the guidance of theory, the path becomes a reaction path that can actually be inspected and calculated. But Chemical Kinetics is more about structure and reactivity than numbers and calculations. A great emphasis in the clarity of the concepts is achieved by illustrating all the theories and mechanisms with recent examples, some of them described with sufficient detail and simplicity to be used in general chemistry and lab courses. * Looking at atoms and molecules, and how molecular structures change with time. * Providing practical examples and detailed theoretical calculations * Of special interest to Industrial Chemistry and Biochemistry.

1. Introduction -- 2. Reaction rate laws -- 3. Experimental methods -- 4. Rate constants and reaction orders -- 5. Collisions and molecular dynamics -- 6. Reactivity in thermalized systems -- 7. Structure-Reactivity Relationships -- 8. Unimolecular Reactions -- 9. Reaction in solution -- 10. Reactions in surfaces -- 11. Nucleophilic substitution reactions -- 12. Chain reactions -- 13. Acid-base catalysis and proton-transfer reactions -- 14. Enzyme catalysis -- 15. Transitions between electronic states -- 16. Electron transfers -- 17. Fractals, chaos and oscillatory reactions.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reaction rate laws -- Experimental methods -- Reaction order and rate constants -- Collisions and molecular dynamics -- Reactivity in thermalised systems -- Relationships between structure and reactivity -- Unimolecular reactions -- Elementary reactions in solution -- Reactions on surfaces -- Substitution reactions -- Chain reactions -- Acid-base catalysis and proton-transfer reactions -- Enzymatic catalysis -- Transitions between electronic states -- Electron transfer reactions -- Appendix I. General data -- Appendix II. Statistical Thermodynamics -- Appendix III. Parameters employed in ISM calculations -- Appendix IV. Semi-classical interacting state model -- Appendix V. The Lippincott-Schroeder Potential.

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