An introduction to chemical kinetics / Claire Vallance.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vallance, Claire, author.

Contributor:

Morgan & Claypool Publishers, publisher.

Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.

Series:

IOP (Series). Release 3.

IOP concise physics

[IOP release 3]

IOP concise physics, 2053-2571

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chemical kinetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color).

Distribution:

Bristol [England] : IOP Publishing, [2017]

Place of Publication:

San Rafael [California] : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2017]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.

text file

Biography/History:

Claire Vallance is a Professor of Physical Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, and Tutorial Fellow in Physical Chemistry at Hertford College, Oxford. She was brought up in the UK and New Zealand, and holds BSc(hons) and PhD degrees from the University of Canterbury (Christchurch, NZ), where she worked on gas-phase molecular dynamics. Her current research interests include reaction dynamics, the use of optical microcavities in chemical sensing applications, and the development of spectroscopic techniques for use during cardiovascular surgery and neurosurgery. She has given lecture courses on chemical kinetics, properties of gases, symmetry and group theory, reaction dynamics, and astro chemistry, as well as numerous outreach and public engagement lectures, and her tutorial teaching spans the breadth of physical chemistry. She is author of over 90 journal articles, four book chapters, nine patents, an e-textbook on symmetry and group theory, and a textbook Astrochemistry: From the Big Bang to the Present Day, and also co-edited the textbook Tutorials in Molecular Reaction Dynamics.

Summary:

The book is a short primer on chemical reaction rates based on a six-lecture first-year undergraduate course taught by the author at the University of Oxford. The book explores the various factors that determine how fast or slowly a chemical reaction proceeds and describes a variety of experimental methods for measuring reaction rates. The link between the reaction rate and the sequence of steps that makes up the reaction mechanism is also investigated. Chemical reaction rates is a core topic in all undergraduate chemistry courses.

Contents:

Preface

1. Elementary reactions

1.1. Introduction

1.2. Elementary reactions

1.3. The rates of elementary reactions : energetic considerations

1.4. The rates of elementary reactions : simple collision theory and the Arrhenius equation

2. Rate laws : relating the reaction rate to reactant concentrations

2.1. Rate of reaction

2.2. Rate laws

2.3. The units of the rate constant

2.4. Integrated rate laws

2.5. Half lives

3. Determining the rate law and obtaining mechanistic information from experimental data

3.1. Isolation method

3.2. Differential methods : determining reaction orders from the differential form of the rate law

3.3. Integral methods : determining reaction orders from the integrated form of the rate law

3.4. Determining orders and rate constants from a half life analysis

3.5. Some examples

3.6. Exploring the temperature dependence of the rate constant

3.7. Summary

4. Experimental techniques for measuring reaction rates

4.1. Techniques for mixing the reactants and initiating reaction

4.2. Techniques for monitoring concentrations as a function of time

4.3. Temperature control and measurement

5. Introduction to complex reactions

5.1. Consecutive reactions

5.2. Pre-equilibria

5.3. Moving on to more complicated mechanisms

6. Using the steady-state approximation to derive rate laws for complex reactions

6.1. The steady-state approximation : a first example

6.2. The steady-state approximation : a general approach

6.3. 'Unimolecular' reactions : the Lindemann-Hinshelwood mechanism

6.4. Third-order reactions

6.5. Enzyme reactions and the Michaelis-Menten mechanism

7. Chain reactions and explosions

7.1. Chain reactions

7.2. Linear chain reactions

7.3. Comparison between the hydrogen-halogen reactions

7.4. Explosions and branched chain reactions

7.5. Concluding remarks

7.6. Further reading.

Notes:

"Version: 20170901"--Title page verso.

"A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on October 26, 2017).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781681746647

9781681746661

OCLC:

1007880346

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