Chemical Kinetics and Reaction Dynamics

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This text teaches the principles underlying modern chemical kinetics in a clear, direct fashion, using several examples to enhance basic understanding. It features solutions to selected problems, with separate sections and appendices that cover more technical applications. 2001 edition.

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Yummy.......2005-12-17

Chemical kinetics and reaction dynamics are not easy subjects, demanding quite a lot of physics in some complicated settings. Thus, it is all the more impressive that Paul Houston has managed to write this extraordinarily clear and concise text that is accessible to an advanced undergraduate.

Do not get me wrong; the prerequisites for this book are extensive. A good grasp of basic newtonian mechanics, quantum mechanics, spectroscopy, and statistical thermodynamics are musts. But nothing is needed beyond what can be expected from a good, stiff one-year course in physical chemistry.

From the first chapter on the kinetic theory of gases, Houston's focus on the physics - on keeping derivations short and clear, on connecting formulae with sound physical intuition - is striking. It does not lag as the book goes on. Houston continues with a clean exposition of empirical chemical kinetics and how to integrate and/or simplify the resulting differential equations. The grungy business of theoretical kinetics - how to kludge your way to a theoretical gas-phase reaction rate constant - is well treated after that. In the third chapter, Houston delivers an elegant and unified flux-driven treatment of transport phenomena. He gets the basic equations correct up to a numerical factor with a minimum of effort. This is beautiful; I wish chemical engineers would read this before beginning their own transport travails! There are then several chapters on the chemistry of more complicated systems, like solution-phase, solid surface-phase, and photochemical reactions. While I haven't read these, I am sure they are wonderful. The high point, in my opinion, is the final chapter on reaction dynamics. Its ongoing tacit motivation is the question, "How does a hydrogen fluoride laser work?" Read, and you will learn. In doing so, you will also become acquainted with the basic concepts in gas-phase reaction dynamics: the details of the crossed-beam molecular scattering experiment, the concept of a potential energy surface, and what these can tell us about reaction mechanisms. Throughout Houston, the emphasis on looking up from the math and seeing the physical big picture prevents the blind and frustrating equation-crunching which is all too common in the quantitative sciences.

This little book is really amazing. It takes you from a good undergraduate background to the forefront of modern chemical physics research with minimal pain and maximal excitement. Read it.

Chemical Kinetics and Dynamics (2nd Edition)

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An excellent advanced text, but lacking in explanation

Chemical Kinetics and Dynamics (2nd Edition)
Jeffrey I. Steinfeld , Joseph S. Francisco , and William L. Hase
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Presents a balanced presentation of the macroscopic view of empirical kinetics and the microscopic molecular viewpoint of chemical dynamics. Stressing interconnections between phenomenological chemical kinetics and molecular reaction dynamics, the book discusses reactions in gas phase, liquids, and at surfaces; molecular potential surfaces; gas-gas and gas-surface theories applied to reactive collisions. It features applications to atmospheric chemistry, combustion, and chemical lasers as well as multiple methods for solving kinetic equations. It also addresses topics not found in other books: Information theory, Stochastic simulation, and Sensitivity analysis. The second edition of Chemical Kinetics and Dynamics has been revised to include the latest information as well as new topics, such as heterogeneous reactions in atmospheric chemistry, reactant product imaging, and molecular dynamics of H + H2. It provides an experimental observation of the transition state ("Femtochemistry"); new treatment of stratospheric chemistry, including heterogeneous processes, balance among catalytic cycles, environmental consequences, and policy implications as well as current database information on NIST kinetics as well as JPL evaluations. A valuable resource on kinetics for professional atmospheric kineticists and chemical engineers.

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Too many typos.......2006-04-03

The content is there but the incredible number of typos in this book often makes it hard to follow the math. The language used in the problem sets are not clear so at times it is hard to decipher what is being asked. There are also many typos in the questions, which makes solving the problems difficult and lowers the usefulness of the problems in helping to learn the material. However, with the help of some reference materials (especially in the Laplace transform section), this book can provide a good basic understanding of chemical kinetics.

Excellent.......2002-02-03

This is an excellent book if you know the basis of chemical kinetics. I recommended it especially for university students in
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An excellent advanced text, but lacking in explanation.......1999-03-20

Steinfeld's book is an excellent text for those who have a thorough background in Chemical Kinetics and Dynamics. However, for the introductory graduate level kinetics course or advanced undergraduate kinetics course, I would not recommend this text. Steinfeld does not illustrate any of the concepts with actual data or explanatory problems. Furthermore, the problems at the end of the chapter have very little to do with the material they are supposed to cover. Finally, there are many mistakes in this edition. They are mostly typos, but they add a lot of confusion to the material

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Understanding the factors which determine the rates and products of elementary reactions is of fundamental importance to chemists. This book provides a concise account of the dynamics and kinetics of elementary reactions in the gas phase, and is structured to emphasise the relationship between thermal rate coefficients and the microscopic mechanisms of chemical reactions. The theoretical framework necessary to predict the dynamics and kinetics of elementary reactions is introduced, and is illustrated by reference to numerous theoretical and experimental studies. Extensive references to other undergraduate texts are also provided and diagrammatic examples are provided throughout, making this an essential course aid for second, third and fourth year undergraduate students of chemistry. First year postgraduate students and academics in physical chemistry departments will also find this book interesting.

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great introduction or review of the subject.......2006-03-18

This book was recommended to me by the post-doc supervising my summer research internship as an introduction to the research area of the project I would be working on. As a student with a strong background in physics and chemistry but absolutely no background in reaction dynamics, I found this book to be a great introduction to the subject.

I admit that the book does NOT go into great detail on much of what it covers; for that, you'd need a full textbook on reaction dynamics, not an 80-page summary of the subject. I did find that I had to go through this book very slowly, working through many of the details of the math & derivations myself, since Brouard doesn't have space to present them in this book; however, I think that this can be an advantage for motivated readers as doing your own derivations is a very good test of how well you understand/can work with the subject. On the whole, though, this book provided me with a thorough outline of & introduction to the concepts and the mathematics behind the project I was working on, and I'm finding (now that I'm taking an actual class dealing with some of this material) that the understanding I gained from Brouard's book is serving as a very good foundation for the details I'm learning now.

In short: Brouard won't give you all the nitty-gritty details of derivations and such, but if you're looking for a quick introduction to the concepts and major mathematical results in reaction dynamics, this book is a very good place to start.

(as a side note - If you're looking for a real textbook on reaction dynamics, you might check out Levine's "Molecular Reaction Dynamics" - I haven't used this book extensively, but I did find it to be reasonably helpful as a more comprehensive reference during the summer.)

Good Introduction.......1999-12-15

This book gives a good experimental and theoretical introduction to reaction dynamics. And its cheap too.

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Chemical Kinetics and Reaction Dynamics
Santosh K. Upadhyay
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Chemical Kinetics and Reaction Dynamics brings together the major facts and theories relating to the rates with which chemical reactions occur from both the macroscopic and microscopic point of view. This book helps the reader achieve a thorough understanding of the principles of chemical kinetics and includes:

Detailed stereochemical discussions of reaction steps

Classical theory based calculations of state-to-state rate constants

A collection of matters on kinetics of various special reactions such as micellar catalysis, phase transfer catalysis, inhibition processes, oscillatory reactions, solid-state reactions, and polymerization reactions at a single source.

The growth of the chemical industry greatly depends on the application of chemical kinetics, catalysts and catalytic processes. This volume is therefore an invaluable resource for all academics, industrial researchers and students interested in kinetics, molecular reaction dynamics, and the mechanisms of chemical reactions.

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Aspects of the Kinetics and Dynamic Surface Reactions (AIP Conference Proceedings)

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The Chemical Dynamics and Kinetics of Small Radicals (Advanced Series in Physical Chemistry, Vol 6)

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This book highlights recent progress in the chemistry of radicals. Developments include the growing use of lasers to generate radicals, the application of lasers to provide state, angular, polarization, energy and real-time resolution in kinetics and dynamics experiments, the development of theories for handling the reactions of radicals, and the simulation of the reaction dynamics of increasingly larger systems for direct comparison to experimental results. The book emphasizes the increasing interaction between experimental dynamics, kinetics and theory. It is appropriate for chemistry graduate students and researchers about to enter the field. However, the discussions of some topics progress to a more advanced level so that even an expert will find the book useful.

Comprehensive Chemical Kinetics, Volume 39: Unimolecular Kinetics, Part 1. The Reaction Step (Comprehensive Chemical Kinetics)

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Comprehensive Chemical Kinetics, Volume 39: Unimolecular Kinetics, Part 1. The Reaction Step (Comprehensive Chemical Kinetics)

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Unimolecular reactions are in principle the simplest chemical reactions, because they only involve one molecule. The basic mechanism, in which the competition between the chemical reaction step and a collisional deactivation leads to a pressure-dependent coefficient, has been understood for a long time. However, this is a rapidly developing field, and many new and important discoveries have been made in the past decade.

This First Part Part of Two CCK Volumes dealing with Unimolecular Rections, deals with the Reaction Step. The first chapter is an introduction to the whole project, aiming to cover the material necessary to understand the content of the detailed chapters, as well as the history of the development of the area. Chapter 2 is a review of the modern view of the statistical theories, as embodied in the various forms of RRKM theory. Chapter 3 deals with the fully quantum mechanical view of reactive states as resonances.

. Presents considerable advances in the field made during the last decade.
. Treats both the statistical as well as the fully quantum mechanical view.

Dynamics of Molecules and Chemical Reactions

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Dynamics of Molecules and Chemical Reactions

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Covers both molecular and reaction dynamics. The work presents important theroetical and computational approaches to the study of energy transfer within and between molecules, discussing the application of these approaches to problems of experimental interest. It also describes time-dependent and time-independent methods, variational and perturbative techniques, iterative and direct approaches, and methods based upon the use of physical grids of finite sets of basic function.

Ion Molecule Reactions, Part I: Kinetics and Dynamics, 1979

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Ion Molecule Reactions, Part I: Kinetics and Dynamics, 1979
J.L. Franklin
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"Every animal form is the product of two processes--development from an egg and evolution from its ancestors," writes Sean B. Carroll in his introduction to Endless Forms Most Beautiful. The new science of "evo devo"--or evolutionary developmental biology--examines the relationships between those two processes, embryonic development and evolutionary changes, despite their radically different time scales. Carroll first offers a recap of how genes express themselves in a growing embryo, then peers into the life histories of real-life examples to explain how those genes have changed (or not changed) over millions of years of evolution. Paraphrasing Thomas Huxley, he asks us to consider evolution and development as two sides of the same coin.

We may marvel at the process of an egg becoming an adult, but we accept it as an everyday fact. It is merely then a lack of imagination to fail to grasp how changes in this process that assimilated over long periods of time, far longer than the span of human experience, shape life's diversity."

The book's second half is where Carroll really gets at the meat of evo devo, explaining how regulatory genes control such mysteries as individual and population changes in butterfly's spots, jaguar fur, and hominid skulls. Evo devo is one of the hottest areas of study in 21st-century biology, and Carroll's outline of the field is a great place to start understanding it. --Therese Littleton

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What Brian Greene did for string theory, Sean Carroll—a leading biologist—does for Evo Devo.

Evo Devo is evolutionary developmental biology, the third revolution in evolutionary biology. The first was marked by the publication of The Origin of Species. The second occurred in the early twentieth century, when Darwin's theories were merged with the study of genetics. Now the insights of Evo Devo are astonishing the biology world by showing how the endless forms of animals—butterflies and zebras, trilobites and dinosaurs, apes and humans, are made and evolved.

Perhaps the most surprising finding of Evo Devo is the discovery that a small number of primitive genes led to the formation of fundamental organs and appendages in all animal forms. The gene that causes humans to form arms and legs is the same gene that causes birds and insects to form wings, and fish to form fins; similarly, one ancient gene has led to the creation of eyes across the animal kingdom. Changes in the way this ancient tool kit of genes is used have created all the diversity that surrounds us.

Sean Carroll is the ideal author to lead the curious on this intellectual adventure—he is the acknowledged leader of the field, and his seminal discoveries have been featured in Time and The New York Times. 16 pages of color and 100 black-and-white illustrations.

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Interesting Book.......2007-08-23

I read this book over the summer for my AP Biology class. I was a bit nervous when I saw that this was a bargain book, but it was very informative and it kept me interested. Sean B. Carroll is an amazing author and this book opened my eyes to Evo Devo.

Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science Of Evo Devo And The Making Of The Animal Kingdom.......2007-07-30

This book offers a fresh perspective to evolution. The fact that our most complex human genetic processes take origin at a very primitive level. That is, we have evolved from a more primitive life form and our complexity evolves because we use or not use certain inherent basic genes or what the author calls "tool kits". The book gets pretty esoteric at times but the examples are good and the author writes clearly. I recommend the book for scientists and non-scientists. I suggest the creationists read the book to counter their argument that man is too complex to be left to the whim of random evolution. That is not to say there is not a higher power guiding the process but it is clear that the theory of evolution is sound and supported by works of Dr. Carroll, her colleagues and other developmental biologists.

New views of Darwinian evolution.......2007-01-03

Evo Devo consists of the merged sciences of evolution and embryology. The relationship between these two branches of science isn't new, but it has expanded hugely over the last several decades. Darwin anticipated the role that embryology played (and would play) in the theory of evolution, as Carroll shows by quoting Charles Darwin in his September 10, 1860 letter to Asa Gray:

"Embryology is to me by far the strongest single class of facts in favor of change of forms, and not one, I think, of my reviewers has alluded to this.

Even though Darwin clearly understood the implications of embryology to evolution, Carroll's book is a breathtaking example of previously (perhaps) unimagined insights into evolution that embryology has brought to modern science, much of which has been discovered and expanded upon over the past 20 years.

One of the most important discoveries of Evo Devo is the ancient origin of the genes used to build basic body plans. From fins to legs, fingers, and wings, nature has a tendency to use many of the same basic genes. The fact that a common set of genes is used to form such a wide variety of different body shapes and appendages was unanticipated, and shows the great antiquity of life while illuminating the literal truth of the fundamental thesis of evolution: decent from a common ancestor. The author presents detailed examples and evidence showing the different ways in which ancient - very ancient, in many cases - tool kit genes are used to shape the evolution of animal forms from Urbilateria to Homo sapiens.

A not uncommon misconception is that different features in living organisms require different genes. In this flawed world view there are things like an "elephant trunk gene" and an "intelligence gene." To understand why an elephant looks the way it does and why people are smart (supposedly) you simply need to find the genes that make them unique. Through the science of Evo Devo we've learned that body shapes are determined not simply by what genes are present, but when and how various genes are turned on and off. As the old saying goes: "timing is everything." It's the timing of how genes are activated during development that largely results in the stark physical differences between humans and mice, even though the two species share more than half their genes. As Carroll puts it:

"We have seen that insects, pterosaurs, birds, or bats did not invent "wing" genes (chapter 7), butterflies a "spot" gene (chapter 8), or humans a "bipedalism" gene (chapter 10). Rather, innovation in all of these groups has been a matter of modifying existing structures and of teaching old genes new tricks. The key to innovation at the genetic level is the multifunctionality of too kit genes. The multifunctionality of tool kit genes stems from their deployment at different times and places through batteries of genetic switches. In this manner a protein such as Distal-less can act at one time to promote limb formation, and at another to promote eye-spot development."

Historically, some biologists supposed that different genes would be used for similar solutions in different species. Carroll shows that "this view is entirely incorrect." Much of his book is devoted to showing how a relatively small group of "tool kit" genes is used in many different species to accomplish the same general task. He uses examples from fly legs, mouse feet, and the tube feet of sea urchins. Although these structures look and act in entirely different ways, they are all governed by the distal-less gene. As it turns out, it's not just the genes that determine body shape and function but when and how the genes are tuned on/off during embryological development.

The use of common genes goes beyond development of different structures. Organs that were once thought of as distinctly different, such as eyes and hearts, are now understood to have common genetic ingredients that control their formation. This, Carroll explains "has forced a complete change in our picture of Cambrian animals..." The real lesson here is the great power of combinatorial genetics, and its ability to create vastly more complexity. For example, in a simple case we might imagine four genes, each responsible for a single function. Those same four genes, if used together - in combination - can be responsible for dozens of functions. Quoting Carroll again: "The combinatorial power of the genetic tool kit acting on vast arrays of genetic switches has produced this complexity and diversity [of the natural world]"

This book rates as one of the best I've read in 2006. Carroll is a fine writer and accomplished scientist, and his book offers insight into one of the great developing scientific fields of the 21st century. My copy of the book is hardbound with color prints, as well as many black-and-white figures/drawings that help bring Carroll's writing to life. For anyone fascinated by life and its origins, this is one book you'll definitely want to read.

Endless Forms Most Beautiful: Evo Devo Popularized.......2006-10-31

Despite vast differences in form and function common principles coordinate animal development from a single fertilized egg. Master genes that control development are found across widely divergent species - Drosophila fruit flies and humans share a deep genetic legacy - many of the genes identified as controllers of vertebrate development were originally discovered in these flies.

Multicellular plants and animals are essentially societies of cells that vary in configuration and complexity. Darwinian evolution shaped these multitudinous forms as a result of small changes in offspring and natural selection of those best adapted to their environment. Variation arises from mutations in genes that control how cells in developing embryos behave. This tight linkage between evolution and development lies at the heart of the questions evo devo, shorthand for evolutionary developmental biology, is attempting to answer. Sean B. Carroll is perfectly positioned to explain evo devo, and his comprehensive understanding illuminates "Endless Forms Most Beautiful" The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom."

When and where genes are expressed determines how animals develop. The control regions of these genes - switches that change existing patterns of gene activity into new patterns - are crucial and a single gene can have many control regions. This flexibility underlies the fact that 95% of genes coding for proteins are similar in humans and mice. Evolution of control regions has made us human - and different from our primate ancestors.

Drosophila is utilized to explain the basic developmental tool kit shared by all animals. Carroll introduces the master Hox genes and intercellular signaling molecules such as proteins specified by hedgehog genes. The economy of signaling proteins utilized during development is also emphasized - the same molecules can be employed multiple times since cells respond differently according to their genetic characteristics and developmental history. Carroll also illustrates how individual animals are made up of similar parts - modular construction plays an important role in evolution. Structures ranging from vertebrae to spots on butterfly wings are artfully presented to drive this point home.

Complex animals arose in the Vendian period (650 - 543 MYA). During the Cambrian (543 - 490 MYA) animals with hard body parts enter the fossil record. Evo devo shows that genes responsible for Cambrian animals were plausibly derived from Vendian precursors. Cambrian arthropod dominance is probably due to Hox genes that specify different body segments and the corresponding appendages that formed their bodies. Carroll explores how the number of distinct appendage types increased - the relative shifting of Hox genes could have lead to the ancestral biramous (forked) limb that eventually diversified into structures ranging from gills to wings.

Butterfly spots are a beautiful and clever example of evolutionary tinkering. Each spot appears to evolve its shape, color and size independently of other elements. Evolution has tinkered not only with the qualities of each spot, but with the making of the spot itself. Carroll's group discovered that at the center of each spot the gene Distal-less - a key gene controlling the distal development of appendages such as insect limbs - is expressed and initiates spot development.

Carroll also addresses creationists - the bizarre bibliolaters who think Flintstones reruns on late night TV are documentaries - by pointing out the importance of evolution and evo devo to science and human knowledge in general. The PR campaign known as Intelligent Design is similarly debunked as irreducibly insipid. Science is full of mysteries, that is why there are still employment opportunities for scientists.

After reading this important book try From DNA to Diversity: Molecular Genetics and the Evolution of Animal Design by Sean B. Carroll, Grenier, and Weatherby for a more detailed discussion or The Plausibility of Life: Resolving Darwin's Dilemma by Kirschner and Gerhart - who introduce "facilitated variation" based on evo devo insights to explain the evolution of complexity and novelty.

The mechanics of evolution.......2006-10-31

The main title of the book comes from the final paragraph of Darwin's "Origins of Species". This is quite appropriate as this book is a great add-on to original classic of biology. The book begins with a history of evolutionary thought, and shows how the spread of genetics has helped to support, or refute, evolutionary thought. The book then introduces the reader to evo - devo; or evolutionary development. In essence, the development of an embryo can be used to track the evolution of that particular species. The author expounds on this by first explaining the science of genetics, how genes are used to generate proteins, how specific genes are expressed or not expressed in an organism, how the embryo develops, and how the artificial (by man) manipulation of genes affects the development of an embryo into a different organism. The author then focuses on specific examples to illustrate evo devo in progress. These include wings, spots, black skin due to melanin, and the hominid skull. The author concludes the book by showing how evo devo can be used in the debate of creationism versus evolution.

Overall, a great book. There are multiple images and color figures that helps to explain the concepts explained in the text. I only give it four out of five stars as there is no commentary on how applicable is evo devo to plants, protists, fungi and other types of organisms. For evo devo to be an accurate tool to explain how evolution occur, it must apply to all organisms, and not just animals.

Clever tinkering.(Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom)(Book Review) : An article from: American Scientist

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Clever tinkering.(Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom)(Book Review) : An article from: American Scientist

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