Title: Gaseous reaction kinetics and molecular decomposition
Abstract: This chapter describes theories of gaseous reaction kinetics. The science of reaction kinetics between molecular species in a homogeneous gas phase was one of the earliest fields to be developed, and a quantitative calculation of the rates of chemical reactions was considerably advanced by the development of the collision theory of gases. The kinetics of reaction in the gaseous state has been studied mainly with a view to elucidate the atomic and molecular processes that are involved in chemical change. There are two alternative procedures for doing this: in one, the classical approach relates chemical change to the kinetic energies of colliding molecules, the decomposition of which leads to the reaction products; and the other, the transition state theory, assumes the existence of equilibrium between the reactants and an intermediate species which decomposes to form the reaction products.
Publication Year: 2001
Publication Date: 2001-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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