An Introduction to Chemical Kinetics

by Claire Vallance

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781681746654
Publisher:	Morgan and Claypool Publishers
Publication date:	09/01/2017
Series:	Iop Concise Physics
Pages:	79
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents: 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