Mechanisms of Inorganic Reactions

Partial table of contents:; Historical Perspective; MECHANISMS, KINETICS, AND EQUILIBRIA; The Relation Between the Complete Rate Law and the Mechanism; Stoichiometry and the Rate Law; Chain Reactions; Solvent Effects; EVENTS AT THE MOLECULAR LEVEL: THE ACTIVATED COMPLEX; A Qualitative Description of Molecular Collisions; Stochastic Approach to Reactions; Collision Theory; EXPERIMENTAL METHODS AND HANDLING OF THE DATA; Time Scale for Chemical Reactions and the Choice of Experimental Technique; Handling Complicated Rate Laws; Flow Methods; Temperature Jump and Acoustical Methods; MECHANISM AND STRUCTURE; Minimum Energy Pathways and the Maximum Overlap Criterion; Which is the Donor and Which the Acceptor?; The Conservation of Orbital Symmetry; GROUP-TRANSFER AND ATOM-TRANSFER REACTIONS; Types of Subsitution Reactions; Contour Diagrams; Chelate Ring Formation; Complexes; ELECTRON-TRANSFER REACTIONS; Mechanisms and Rate Laws; Some Useful Formulas and Correlations; CATALYSIS; Big Cycles, Small Cycle; Selectivity; Heterogenized Homogeneous Catalysts; The Wacker Process; Photochemical Splitting of Water; General References; Problems; Subject Index.