CHEMICAL KINETICS OF ELEMENTARY STEPS: Definition of an elementary step -- Transition-state theory -- The rate of an elementary step -- Thermodynamic formulation of rates -- The collision theory and the equation of arrhenius -- Rates and equilibrium -- Rates in solutions and in thermodynamically nonideal systems -- THE STEADY-STATE APPROXIMATION: CATALYSIS: Single reactions: open and closed sequences -- The steady-state approximation -- Kinetic treatment of catalytic sequences -- Kinetic treatment of chain reactions -- Principle of microscopic reversibility -- Kinetics of polymerization -- SIMPLIFIED KINETICS OF SEQUENCES AT THE STEADY STATE: The rate-determining step -- The stoichiometric number of the rate-determining step -- Shift in rate-determining step -- Rate-determining active centers -- Ambiguity of simplified kinetics -- COUPLED SEQUENCES IN REACTION NETWORKS: Catalytic reactions in parallel -- Catalytic reactions in series -- Chain reactions in parallel -- Chain reactions in series -- AUTOCATALYSIS AND INHIBITION: Acceleration of the rate -- Branched chains -- Degenerate branching -- Reactions involving solids -- Inhibition -- and IRREDUCIBLE TRANSPORT PHENOMENA IN CHEMICAL KINETICS: The gel and cage effects -- The wall effect -- The penetration effect -- Thermal explosions, ignition, stability -- CORRELATIONS IN HOMOGENEOUS KINETICS: The polanyi relation -- The bronsted relation -- The hammett relation: linear free-energy relationships -- The compensation effect -- The acidity function in acid-base catalysis -- CORRELATIONS IN HETEROGENEOUS CATALYSIS: Catalysis on a nonuniform surface -- Activity and selectivity -- The principle of sabatier -- A Kinetic comparison between homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis -- ANALYSIS OF REACTION NETWORKS: The kinetic tracer technique of neiman -- Kinetic behavior of a network of first-order reversible reactions the method of wei and prater -- Determination of straight-line reaction paths -- Calculation of rate constants -- Illustration: isomerization of butenes on alumina -- Kinetic response of reaction networks.
