About the Book

This book is the second volume of a university course in physical chemistry and deals with the fundamentals of chemical kinetics, catalysis, and electrochemistry.It is designed for students of chemical faculties of universities. It will also be useful for postgraduate students and teachers of physical chemistry.

The two volumes of Physical Chemistry include all the sections of the corresponding course envisaged by the syllabus for chemical faculties of universities. The structure of matter is not considered in the present course, since chemical faculties have separate courses in The Structure of Molecules and Crystallo-Chemistry.

The sections of the book designated by asterisks, and also the parts of other sections printed in small type, may be omitted when studying physical chemistry according to a required syllabus. This additional material, which is set out in the same comprehensible manner as the main part of the course, can be used for a more detailed study of the subject.

Contents

List of Tables

Symbols

Preface

KINETICS OF CHEMICAL REACTIONS

Chapter 1. Formal Kinetics

Chapter 2. General Laws of the Decomposition and Formation of Molecules

Chapter 3. Fundamentals of Molecular-Kinetic Theory

Chapter 4. Application of Molecular-Kinetic Theory to Bimolecular Reactions

Chapter 5. Theory of Activated Complex (Transition State)

Chapter 6. Monomolecular and Trimolecular Reactions

Chapter 7. Reactions in Solutions

Chapter 8. Chain Reactions

Chapter 9. Photochemical Reactions

Chapter 10. Reactions in Electrical Discharges

Chapter 11. Chemical Action of High-Energy Radiation (Radiation Chemistry)

Chapter 12. Catalytic Reactions

Chapter 13. Theory of Active Centres in Heterogeneous Catalysis

Chapter 14. Investigating the Mechanism and Kinetics of Chemical Reactions by the Method of Tracer Atoms

ELECTROCHEMISTRY

Chapter 15. Fundamentals

ELECTROLYTIC SOLUTIONS

Chapter 16. Theory of Electrolytes

Chapter 17. Electrical Conductance of Electrolytes

Chapter 18. Equilibria in Ionic Solutions

ELECTROMOTIVE FORCES, CHEMICAL SOURCES OF CURRENT

Chapter 19. Electrochemical Cells. Electromotive Force

Chapter 20. Electrical Potentials at Phase Interfaces

Chapter 21. Electrochemical Cells

Chapter 22. E.M.F. Measurement as a Method of Physicochemical Research

Chapter 23. Chemical Sources of Electric Current

Chapter 24. Kinetics of Electrochemical Processes

Bibliography

Name Index

Subject Index