Physical Chemistry 3: — Chemical Kinetics — - Christian-Albrechts ...

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Contents
Preface
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Disclaimer
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Organisational matters
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1 Introduction 1
1.1 Types of chemical reactions 1
1.2 Time scales for chemical reactions 2
1.3 Historical events 5
1.4 References 7
2 Formal kinetics 8
2.1 Definitions and conventions 8
2.1.1 The rate of a chemical reaction 8
2.1.2 Rate laws and rate coefficients 9
2.1.3 The order of a reaction 10
2.1.4 The molecularity of a reaction 11
2.1.5 Mechanisms of complex reactions 12
2.2 Kinetics of irreversible first-order reactions 16
2.3 Kinetics of reversible first-order reactions (relaxation processes) 20
2.4 Kinetics of second-order reactions 24
2.4.1 A + A → products 24
2.4.2 A + B → products 25
2.4.3 Pseudo first-order reactions 26
2.4.4 Comparison of first-order and second-order reactions 27
2.5 Kinetics of third-order reactions 28
2.6 Kinetics of simple composite reactions 29
2.6.1 Consecutive first-order reactions 29
2.6.2 Reactions with pre-equilibrium 32
2.6.3 Parallel reactions 33
2.6.4 Simultaneous first- and second-order reactions* 33
2.6.5 Competing second-order reactions* 34