Kinetics Of Gas Reaction VIA

List of Contributors

Foreword

Preface

Contents of Previous and Future Volume

Chapter 1 / Formal Kinetics

I. Introductory Remarks

II. Rate and Thermodynamics

III. Some Elementary Formal Relations

IV. Open and Closed Reaction Sequences. Establishment of a True or Pseudo-Steady State

V. Stability. Thermal and Chain Explosions

VI. Systems of First-Order Reactions. Microscopic Reversibility. Relaxation Systems

VII. Reactions near Equilibrium and close to Steady State. Reaction Rates and Thermodynamics

VIII. Structure and Stability

References

Chapter 2 / Survey of Kinetic Theory

I. Statistical Concepts

II. Quantum Formulation

III. Boltzmann Equation

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IV. Transport Properties

References

Chapter 3 / Potential Energy Surfaces

I. Introduction

II. The Born-Oppenheimer Adiabatic Approximation

III. Valence Bond Method

IV. Examples

V. Orbital Symmetry in Reaction Kinetics

References

Chapter 4 / Theory of Energy Transfer in Molecular Collisions

I. General Remarks about Binary Molecular Collision

II. Translational to Rotational Energy Transfer (TR Processes)

III. Translational to Vibrational Energy Transfer (TV Processes)

IV. Transformation of Rotational and Translational Energy into Vibrational Energy (RV and TRV Processes)

V. Quasi-Resonant Transfer of Vibrational Energy (VV Processes)

VI. Transformation of Translational, Rotational, and Vibrational Energy into Electronic Energy

VII. Influence of Nonadiabatic Effects on the Translational to Vibrational Energy Transfer

References

Chapter 5 / Molecular Beam Scattering Experiments on Elastic, Inelastic, and Reactive Collisions

I. Introduction

II. Experimental Techniques Used in Molecular Beam Scattering Experiments

III. Elastic Scattering Experiments

IV. Inelastic Scattering Experiments

V. Reactive Scattering Experiments

References

Chapter 6 / The Dynamics of Bimolecular Reactions

I. The Microscopic and the Macroscopic

II. Detailed Models

III. Simple Models

References

Author Index

Subject Index