Kinetics of Chemical Processes

Preface and Erratum Preface To The Original Printing Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 The Scope of Chemical Kinetics 1.2 The Extent of Reaction 1.3 The Rate of Reaction 1.4 General Properties of the Rate Function for a Single Reaction 1.5 Ideal Reactors 1.6 Stirred-Flow Reactors 1.7 Ideal Tubular Reactors 1.8 Measurement of Reaction RatesChapter 2 Chemical Kinetics of Elementary Steps 2.1 Definition of an Elementary Step 2.2 Transition-State Theory 2.3 The Rate of an Elementary Step 2.4 Thermodynamic Formulation of Rates 2.5 The Collision Theory and the Equation of Arrhenius 2.6 Rates and Equilibrium 2.7 Rates in Solutions and in Thermodynamically Nonideal Systems 2.8 SummaryChapter 3 The Steady-State ApproximationN: Catalysis 3.1 Single Reactions: Open and Closed Sequences 3.2 The Steady-State Approximation 3.3 Kinetic Treatment of Catalytic Sequences 3.4 Kinetic Treatment of Chain Reactions 3.5 Principle of Microscopic Reversibility 3.6 Kinetics of PolymerizationChapter 4 Simplified Kinetics of Sequences at the Steady State 4.1 The Rate-determining Step 4.2 The Stoichiometric Number of the Rate-determining Step 4.3 Shift in Rate-determining Step 4.4 Rate-determining Active Centers 4.5 Ambiguity of Simplified KineticsChapter 5 Coupled Sequences in parallel 5.2 Catalytic Reactions in Series 5.3 Chain Reactions in Parallel 5.4 Chain Reactions in SeriesChapter 6 Autocatalysis and Inhibition 6.1 Acceleration of the Rate 6.2 Branched Chains 6.3 Degenerate Branching 6.4 Reactions Involving Solids 6.5 InhibitionChapter 7 Irreducible Transport Phenomena in Chemical Kinetics 7.1 The Gel and Cage Effects 7.2 The Wall Effect 7.3 The Penetration Effect 7.4 Thermal Explosions, Ignition, StabilityChapter 8 Correlations in Homogeneous Kinetics 8.1 The Polanyi Relation 8.2 The Bronsted Relation 8.3 The Hammett Relation: Linear Free-energy Relationships 8.4 The Compensation Effect 8.5 The Acidity Function in Acid-Base CatalysisChapter 9 Correlation in Heterogeneous Catalysis 9.1 Catalysis on a Nonuniform Surface 9.2 Activity and Selectivity 9.3 The Principle of Sabatier 9.4 A Kinetic Comparison Between Homogeneous and Heterogeneous CatalysisChapter 10 Analysis of Reaction Networks 10.1 The Kinetic Tracer Technique of Neiman 10.2 Kinetic Behavior of a Network of First-order Reversible Reactions : The Method of Wei and Prater 10.3 Determination of Straight-line Reaction Paths 10.4 Calculation of Rate Constants 10.5 Illustration: Isomerization of Butenes on Alumina 10.6 Kinetic Response of Reaction NetworksAppendixIndex