Electron Capture Detector and The Study of Reactions With Thermal Electrons (eBook)

E. C. M. CHEN is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Natural and Applied Sciences at the University of Houston-Clear Lake. E. S. CHEN is formerly of the Center for Research on Parallel Computation at Rice University in Houston, Texas.

FOREWORD.

PREFACE.

1. Scope and History of the Electron.

2. Definitions, Nomenclature, Reactions, and Equations.

3. Thermal Electron Reactions at the University of Houston.

4. Theoretical Basis of the Experimental Tools.

5. Experimental Procedures and Data Reduction.

6. Complementary Experimental and Theoretical Procedures.

7. Consolidating Experimental, Theoretical, and Empirical Data.

8. Selection, Assignment, and Correlations of Atomic Electron Affinities.

9. Diatomic and Triatomic Molecules and Sulfur Fluorides.

10. Negative Ions of Organic Molecules.

11. Thermal Electrons and Environmental Pollutants.

12. Biologically Significant Molecules.

APPENDICES.

I Glossary of Terms, Acronyms, and Symbols.

II Structures of Organic Molecules.

III General Least Squares.

IV Tables of Evaluated Electron Affinities.

AUTHOR INDEX.

SUBJECT INDEX.

"...contains a wealth of thermochemical
information." (ChemPhysChem, 2005; Vol. 6, 9)

"This book is thorough and comprehensive in its coverage of ECDs
and ECDs to study the reactions with thermal electrons..."
(E-STREAMS, October 2004)