Chemical Reactivity in Liquids

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-x

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2. Experimental

   1. Techniques for Studying Fast Reactions in Liquids

      • Charles D. Jonah

      Pages 1-14

   2. Advances in Femtosecond Optical Techniques: Recent Experimental Investigations in the Field of Reaction Dynamics

      • Y. Gauduel, A. Migus, A. Antonetti

      Pages 15-32

   3. Chemical Reactivity in Weak Charge-Transfer Complexes: Analysis of Induced Far Infrared Profiles and Raman Scattering Profiles

      • Marcel Besnard, Nathalie Del Campo, Jean Lascombe

      Pages 33-54

   4. Kinetic Processes in Electrolyte Solutions in High Frequency Electric Fields

      • J. Barthel, K. Bachhuber, R. Buchner

      Pages 55-71

   5. Fast Techniques in Electrochemistry Application to the Study of Chemical Reactivity

      • Christian Amatore

      Pages 73-89

   6. In Vivo N.M.R

      • J. C. Beloeil

      Pages 91-104

   7. Study of the System Acetonitrile-Water in the One-Phase Pretransitional Region

      • René Diguet

      Pages 105-111

   8. Effect of Electrostatic Interactions on Electron-Transfer Reactions

      • Bernard Hickel

      Pages 113-119

   9. Pulse Radiolysis Study of Aqueous Solution Reactivity of Transient Species of Biological Interest: Reactions with Various Substrates

      • A. Sekaki, K. Benzineb, G. Machtalere, C. Houée-Levin, M. Gardès-Albert, C. Ferradini et al.

      Pages 121-128

   10. Determination of Thermodynamic and Spectral Parameters of a Thermochromic Equilibrium by UV/VIS Spectroscopy in Different Solvents

       • L. Tan-Sien-Hee, D. Lavabre, J. C. Micheau, G. Levy

       Pages 129-135

   11. The Influence of the Solvents on the Electronic Spectra of Some Aromatic Molecules and their Dipole Moments in the Excited State. The Solvent Effects on the Aniline Electronic Band at 34,870 cm-1

       • Vasile Macovei, Ana Sasu

       Pages 137-145

   12. Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis in a Gas-Liquid-Solid Medium: Selectivities Induced by Phase Equilibria

       • Dominique Vanhove

       Pages 147-156

3. Theory

   1. IIa - Quantum Studies

      1. The Role of Electronic Structure Calculation in Mechanistic Analysis of Electron Transfer Reactions in the Liquid Phase

         • Marshall D. Newton

         Pages 157-174

      2. Diabatic Electron-Ion Recombination in a Polar Solvent

         • Michael L. Klein, Michiel Sprik

         Pages 175-186

      3. Liquid State Quantum Chemistry: Application to Reactivity

         • Jean-Louis Rivail

         Pages 187-195

      4. The Effect of Solvent Fluctuations in Electron Transfer Processes

         • Angels González-Lafont, José M. Lluch, Antonio Oliva, Juan Bertrán

         Pages 197-204

      5. A Simple Description of the Intermolecular Proton Transfer by Tunnelling in Solutions

         • P. H. Fries, E. Belorizky

         Pages 205-211

      6. Conformational Kinetics of Aliphatic Chains

         • Pier Luigi Nordio, Alberta Ferrarini, Giorgio Moro

         Pages 213-220

   2. IIb - Statistical Mechanics Computer Simulation

      1. Theory of Association and Substitution Reactions

         • James T. Hynes

         Pages 221-230

Understanding chemical reactivity has been the permanent concern of chemists from time immemorial. If we were able to understand it and express it quantitatively there would practically remain no unsolved mystery, and reactions would be fully predictable, with their products and rates and even side reactions. The beautiful developments of thermodynamics through the 19th century supplied us with the knowledge of the way a reactions progresses, and the statistical view initiated by Gibbs has progressively led to an unders­ tanding closer to the microscopic phenomena. But is was always evident to all that these advances still left our understanding of chemical reactivity far behind our empirical knowledge of the chemical reaction in its practically infinite variety. The advances of recent years in quantum chemistry and statistical mechanics, enhanced by the present availability of powerful and fast compu­ ters, are very fast changing this picture, and bringing us really close to a microscopic understanding of chemical equilibria, reaction rates, etc.... This is the reason why our Society encouraged a few years ago the initiative of Professor Savo Bratos who, with a group of French colleagues, prepared an impressive study on "Reactivite chimique en phase liquide", a prospective report which was jointly published by the Societe Fran

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