Chemical Thermodynamics and Statistical Aspects

Joseph J. Stephanos is associate professor of inorganic, bioinorganic, biophysics chemistry at Menoufia University. He has been postdoctoral research associate at Pennsylvania University, postdoctoral instructor and adjunct associate professor at Drexel University and has held various teaching positions leading to the current one. Dr. Stephanos’ research interests concern inorganic studies of biologically active molecules, studying model compounds, their structure and bonding, and the chemistry of metalloproteins and ligands binding, with special reference to mechanistic aspects and structure/function relation. He is the author and coauthor of several articles and one previous book, Chemistry of Metalloproteins: Problems and Solutions in Bioinorganic Chemistry. Anthony W. Addison is a C. & M. Lindback Distinguished Teaching Awardee, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (’08) and of the American Chemical Society (’12). He is an officer and past Chairman of the ACS Philadelphia Section, and a member of IES & CSC. He is lead author of the 6th-most-cited article in the field of Inorganic Chemistry in the last 30 years. His >240 articles and conference presentations have garnered ca. 10,000 citations in the research literature. His research interests are focused on the design and synthesis of novel biomimetic and oligonuclear chelates of copper, nickel, iron and vanadium.

1. Thermodynamics variables and fundamentals2. Work, heat, internal energy, and enthalpy3. Entropy of pure substance in single phase 34. Free energy of pure substance in single phase5. Thermodynamics of homogeneous and heterogeneous systems6. Thermodynamics of mixtures7. Activity8. Thermodynamics and chemical processes9. Statistics and particle distributions10. Distribution of independent particles in an isolated system11. Thermodynamic properties of the dilute limit distributions12. Partition function of independent particles13. Energy mode and thermodynamic probabilities14. Thermodynamic properties of ideal gases15. Thermodynamic properties of ideal gas mixtures16. Thermodynamic properties of solids17. Canonical ensemble18. Microcanonical and grand canonical ensembles