Reactions of small transient species, kinetics and energetics: A. Fontijn and M. A. A. Clyne (Editors), Academic Press, London, 1983, x + 478 pp., $89.00
✍ Scribed by David Gutman
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1986
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 94 KB
- Volume
- 63
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0010-2180
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✦ Synopsis
Arthur Fontijn and the late Michael Clyne have presented under one cover a set of informative articles, each of which introduces and subsequently surveys in some depth an important research area of gas-phase reaction kinetics of small transient species. "Small" means one to three atoms (although reactions of somewhat larger species are occasionally mentioned), and "transient species" means neutral atoms and free radicals as well as ions (under thermal conditions or with excess internal or translational energy) and also includes normally stable small molecules in excited states. The articles cover studies conducted under homogeneous conditions, i.e., they do not include those performed in molecular beams.
The stated purpose of the book is to provide a "status report on the various aspects of the energetics of gas phase reaction kinetics suitable both for new graduate students and more experienced workers."
This book will be a very useful guide and introductory text as well as an excellent source book for advanced students or research scientists who wish to enter any of the research fields that are described here, or who simply wish to be better informed about one or more of the areas covered. Each chapter provides an indepth introduction to the topic as well as a comprehensive survey of the important published research advances in the field and generally includes a useful description of the special research equipment and experimental techniques that have been developed by the authors of the