Dr. D. Pugh and Dr. B.D. Moore Aims to introduce the principles of modern chemical kinetics as applied to all branches of chemistry, to provide an introduction to the quantum mechanical principles used in the interpretation of atomic and molecular phenomena in inorganic and organic chemistry.
Some examples are polymer chemistry, photochemistry and mechanistic organic chemistry.
Content 1 Kinetics vs. thermodynamics, stability, stoichiometry, extent of reaction, rate expressions. 4 Reaction mechanisms, Lindemanns unimolecular activation, fall off in gas phase, reversible reactions. 5 Effect of temperature on rate, Arrhenius equation, examples. Enzyme catalysis, Michaelis-Menten equation, acid base catalysis. 7 Collision theory of reaction rates-steric factor, numerical calculation of rate.