Physical Inorganic Chemistry Applications

This go–to text provides information and insight into physical inorganic chemistry essential to our understanding of chemical reactions on the molecular level. One of the only books in the field of inorganic physical chemistry with an emphasis on mechanisms, it features contributors at the forefront of research in their particular fields. This essential text discusses the latest developments in a number of topics currently among the most debated and researched in the world of chemistry, related to the future of solar energy, hydrogen energy, biorenewables, catalysis, environment, atmosphere, and human health.

Chapter 1. Electron Transfer Reactions ( Ira Weinstock ). Chapter 2. Proton–Coupled Electron Transfer in Hydrogen and Hydride Transfer Reactions ( Shunichi Fukuzumi ). Chapter 3. Oxygen Atom Transfer ( Mahdi M. Abu–Omar ). Chapter 4. Mechanisms of Oxygen Binding and Activation at Transition Metal Centers ( Elena Rybak–Akimova ). Chapter 5. Activation of Molecular Hydrogen ( Gregory J. Kubas and D. Michael Heinekey ). Chapter 6. Activation of Carbon Dioxide ( Ferenc Joó ). Chapter 7. Chemistry of Bound Nitrogen Monoxide and Related Redox Species ( Josó A. Olabe ). Chapter 8. Ligand Substitution Dynamics in Metal Complexes ( Thomas W. Swaddle ). Chapter 9. Reactivity of Inorganic Radicals in Aqueous Solution ( David M. Stanbury ). Chapter 10. Organometallic Radicals: Thermodynamics, Kinetics, and Reaction Mechanisms ( Tamás Kégl, George C. Fortman, Manuel Temprado, and Carl D. Hoff ). Chapter 11. Metal–Mediated Carbon–Hydrogen Bond Activation ( T. Brent Gunnoe ). Chapter 12. Solar Photochemistry with Transition Metal Compounds Anchored to Semiconductor Surfaces ( Gerald J. Meyer ).