Chemical Kinetics: From Molecular Structure to Chemical Reactivity / Edition 2

by Luis Arnaut

Overview

Chemical Kinetics: From Molecular Structure to Chemical Reactivity, Second Edition, explains how molecular structures change with time. It offers a comprehensive and coherent coverage of the rates of chemical transformations.

The book is written for both undergraduate chemistry students, and for the specialist. The newcomer will find the fundamental concepts, the simple experiments, and the underlying theories. For the seasoned specialist, it presents sophisticated experimental and theoretical methods, offering a panorama of time-dependent molecular phenomena connected by a new rationale. The gap between the two is bridged by a logical path that leads the reader from a phenomenological approach of molecular changes, to the formalism of chemical reaction rates, and then to state-of-the-art calculations of rate constants of the most prevalent reactions: atom transfers, catalysis, proton transfers, substitution reactions, energy transfers and electron transfers. In the process, the reader is presented with the details of collision and transition state theories. The coverage includes unimolecular reactions in the gas phase, reactions in solution and reactions on surfaces.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780444640390
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	06/25/2021
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	694
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Luis G Arnaut, PhD is Professor of Chemistry in the Chemistry Department at the University of Coimbra in Coimbra, Portugal. His research focus is on chemical kinetics, medicinal chemistry, and photochemistry. Dr. Arnaut has authored more than 200 journal articles and books throughout his career.

Table of Contents

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
18. Pharmacokinetics

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Comprehensive coverage of Chemical Kinetics from the basics (simple concepts, fundamental experiments, underlying theories) to the specialist level, combining sophisticated experimental with theoretical methods to offer a panorama of time-dependent molecular phenomena