Table of Contents

1. Basic Concepts of Kinetics.


2. Complex Reactions.


3. Kinetic Measurements.


4. Reactions in Solution.


5. Catalysis.


6. The Transition from the Macroscopic to the Microscopic Level.


7. Potential Energy Surfaces.


8. Dynamics of Biomolecular Collisions.


9. Experimental Chemical Dynamics.


10. Statistical Approach to Reaction Dynamics: Transition State Theory.


11. Unimolecular Reaction Dynamics.


12. Dynamics Beyond the Gas Phase.


13. Information-Theoretic Approach to State-to-State Dynamics.


14. Kinetics of Multicomponent Systems: Combustion Chemistry.


15. Kinetics of Multicomponent Systems: Atmospheric Kinetics.


Appendix 1. Quantum Statistical Mechanics.


Appendix 2. Classical Statistical Mechanics.


Appendix 3. Databases in Chemical Kinetics.