An Introduction to Chemical Kinetics

ISBN-13: 9781681746654 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 79 str.

Claire Vallance

Opis

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.

Spis treści

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Author Biography
• 1. Elementary Reactions
• 2. Rate Laws: Relating the Reaction Rate to Reactant Concentrations
• 3. Determining the Rate Law and Obtaining Mechanistic Information from Experimental Data
• 4. Experimental Techniques for Measuring Reaction Rates
• 5. Introduction to Complex Reactions
• 6. Using the Steady-State Approximation to Derive Rate Laws for Complex Reactions
• 7. Chain Reactions and Explosions