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This book is intended to give a relatively concise introduction to the main principles of chemical kinetics at a level suitable for any undergraduate chemistry student. Elementary reactions and their rates are introduced and explained using Simple Collision Theory. Rate laws and reaction mechanisms are covered in some detail, as are experimental methods and data analysis techniques for obtaining kinetic information across a broad range of timescales. More advanced topics are touched on very briefly at various points in the text, but for the most part, is left for the reader to explore in more comprehensive texts.
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 holds a BSc (hons) and PhD degrees from the University of Canterbury (Christchurch, NZ). She is author of more then 90 journal articles, four book chapters, nine patents, an e-Textbook on Symmetry and Group Theory, and a textbook Astro chemistry: from the Big Bang to the Present Day, and also co-edited the textbook Tutorials in Molecular Reaction Dynamics.
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 NewZealand, and holds B.Sc.(hons) and Ph.D. 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 Astro chemistry: from the Big Bang to the Present Day, and also co-edited the textbook Tutorials in Molecular Reaction Dynamics.