Inorganic Reactions in Solution

Istvan Fabian is a Professor of Chemistry at University of Debrecen, Hungary, and Head of the Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry. Since graduation in 1980, he has been associated with University of Debrecen (the former Kossuth Lajos University). He worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Gottingen, Germany; as a visiting research professor at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA; and as an Alexander von Humboldt fellow at University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany. In early years he was involved in studying ligand substitution reactions of labile transition metal ions by NMR relaxation and chemical relaxation techniques. Later, his interest turned to the redox chemistry of simple inorganic species such as ozone, oxyhalogen compounds, sulfur (IV) etc. In recent years he was also involved in environmental assessment studies and preparing and characterization of functionalized aerogels. He has been the PI of several research projects in these fields. Gabor Lente received all his university degrees at the University of Debrecen, Hungary. In 1997, he graduated as an MSc in Chemistry with a supplementary degree in English-Hungarian translation. He received his PhD in 2001, then completed habilitation in 2008, and obtained a Doctor of Science degree from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2013. He spent two years at Iowa State University, Ames, IA as a visiting scientist. His research has two main focuses. The first is experimental chemical kinetics mainly focusing on inorganic redox reactions, the second is a theoretical field centered on stochastic chemical kinetics. He has published two books with co-authors recently and is currently working on a third.

Introduction: kinetics and mechanism

PART 1: THE TOOLS OF THE TRADE
Triggering and monitoring chemical reactions: experimental techniques
Simple kinetic schemes: analytical solutions of kinetic equations
Analyzing time dependent kinetic phenomena without a pre-concept
Kinetic models: simple and complex
The stochastic approach
Pitfalls in the evaluation of the experimental data
Parameters of activation: use, misuse and abuse
Corroborating evidence: trends, correlations and chemical structures

PART 2: APPLICATIONS
Ligand exchange and substitution reactions
Electron transfer processes
Proton coupled electron transfer reactions
Atom transfer reactions
Catalytic cycles and chain reactions
Enlightening: the photon as a reactant
A kinetic approach to contrast agents
Reactive oxygen species (ROS)
Enzyme kinetics
Advanced oxidation procedures
Environmental reactions
Kinetics of self-aggregation

Outlook

Index