《GAS KINETICS AN INTRODUCTION TO THE KINETICS OF HOMOGENEOUS GAS REACTIONS》

1．INTRODUCTION1

1．1General Survey1

1．2 The Notation of Chemical Kinetics3

1．3 Chemical Kinetics and Thermodynamics8

2．THE THEORIES OF CHEMICAL KINETICS AND ENERGY TRANSFER22

2．1The Collision Theory of Bimolecular Reactions23

2．2 The Transition State Theory of Chemical Kinetics25

2．3 The Theory of Unimolecular Reactions45

2．4 Energy Transfer in Unimolecular Reactions53

2．5 Experimental Work on Energy Transfer in Chemical Reactions64

2．6 The Transfer of Energy between Molecules82

3．UNIMOLECULAR DECOMPOSITIONS AND BIMOLECULAR COMBINATIONS97

3．1Radical Elimination Reactions and the Combination of Radicals98

3．2 Molecular Elimination and Molecular Association Reactions126

3．3 Isomerizations and Racemizations137

3．4 Thermal Decompositions involving Chain Mechanisms142

3．5 Thermal Decompositions in the presence of Nitric Oxide153

3．6 Relations between Activation Energies and A Factors160

4．TRANSFER REACTIONS168

4．1The Metathetical Reactions of Atoms resulting in the Transfer of a Hydrogen Atom168

4．2 The Metathetical Reactions of Free Radicals195

4．3 Metathetical Reactions not involving the Transfer of Hydrogen Atoms212

4．4 The General Properties of Metathetical Reactions223

4．5 The Disproportionation of Free Radicals232

4．6 Inversion Reactions237

4．7 The Reactions of Excited Atoms,Radicals and Molecules242

4．8 Four-Centre Reactions255

4．9 Termolecular Reactions262

5．RADICAL DECOMPOSITIONS AND RADICAL ADDITIONS281

5．1The Addition of Atoms to Carbon-Carbon Double Bonds283

5．2 The Addition of Radicals to Carbon-Carbon Double Bonds294

5．3 The Addition of Atoms and Radicals to Compounds which do not contain Carbon-Carbon Double Bonds297

5．4 The Unimolecular Decompositions of Free Radicals299

SUBJECT INDEX311