Unimolecular Reaction Dynamics: Theory and Experiments / Edition 1

by Tomas Baer, William L. Hase

Overview

The field of unimolecular reaction has witnessed impressive advances in both experimental and theoretical techniques during the past 20 years. These developments have resulted in experimental measurements that finally permit critical test of the major assumptions made more than 60 years ago when Rice and Ramsperger and Kassel first proposed their statistical RRK theory of unimolecular decay.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195074949
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date:	07/28/1996
Series:	International Series of Monographs on Chemistry Series , #31
Pages:	448
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.56(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Wayne State University

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Vibrational/Rotational Energy Levels
3. Potential Energy Surfaces
4. State Preparation and Intramolecular Vibrational Energy Redistribution
5. Experimental Methods in Unimolecular Dissociation Studies
6. Theory of Unimolecular Decomposition—The Statistical Approach
7. Applications and Extensions of Statistical Theories
8. Dynamical Approaches
9. Product Energy Distributions
10. The Dissociation of Small and Large Clusters

Editorial Reviews

"The authors bring complementary expertise to this book. . .Both experiments and theory are treated with considerable depth. . . .From start to finish this book is excellent. . . .Anyone working in this field or in related fields will want to own this book."—Journal of the American Chemical Society

"The authors are to be congratulated and thanked for a timely and important contribution to the textbook literature in the field of unimolecular reactions. They have produced a remarkably balanced and integrated account of both experiment and theory, which is already becoming a standard reference for workers in the field." —Journal of Chemical Education

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