Physical Inorganic Chemistry Reactions, Processes, and Applications

by Bakac, Andreja

• ISBN13: 9780470224205
• ISBN10: 0470224207
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-04-26
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

This go-to text provides information and insight into physical inorganic chemistry essential to our understanding of chemical reactions on the molecular level. One of the only books in the field of inorganic physical chemistry with an emphasis on mechanisms, it features contributors at the forefront of research in their particular fields. This essential text discusses the latest developments in a number of topics currently among the most debated and researched in the world of chemistry, related to the future of solar energy, hydrogen energy, biorenewables, catalysis, environment, atmosphere, and human health.

Author Biography

ANDREJA BAKAC received her PhD in chemistry from the University of Zagreb. She is a Senior Scientist at the Ames National Laboratory and Adjunct Professor in the Chemistry Department at?Iowa State University. Among her many research interests are kinetics and mechanisms of inorganic and organometallic reactions, photochemistry, free-radical reactions, catalysis, and activation of dioxygen.

Table of Contents

Electron Transfer Reactions

Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Hydrogen and Hydride Transfer Reactions

Oxygen Atom Transfer

Mechanisms of Oxygen Binding and Activation at Transition Metal Centers

Activation of Molecular Hydrogen

Activation of Carbon Dioxide

Chemistry of Bound Nitrogen Monoxide and Related Redox Species

Ligand Substitution Dynamics in Metal Complexes

Reactivity of Inorganic Radicals in Aqueous Solution

Organometallic Radicals: Thermodynamics, Kinetics, and Reaction Mechanisms

Metal-Mediated Carbon-Hydrogen Bond Activation

Solar Photochemistry with Transition Metal Compounds Anchored to Semiconductor Surfaces

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