Kinetics of Ion-Molecule Reactions

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Potential Energy Surfaces for Ion-Molecule Reactions: Summary of the Panel Discussion

   • Joyce J. Kaufman

   Pages 1-29

3. Ion-Dipole Collisions: Recent Theoretical Advances

   • Walter J. Chesnavich, Timothy Su, Michael T. Bowers

   Pages 31-53

4. Ion Molecule Collisions: Theory and Experiment—Summary of Panel Discussion

   • Douglas P. Ridge

   Pages 55-68

5. Ion-Molecule Collision Complexes: Summary of the Panel Discussion

   • Cornelius E. Klots

   Pages 69-80

6. Molecular Beam Studies of Ion-Molecule Reactions

   • W. Ronald Gentry

   Pages 81-102

7. Charge Transfers at Thermal Energies: Energy Disposal and Reaction Mechanisms

   • R. Marx

   Pages 103-117

8. Energy Dependences of Ion-Neutral Reactions Studied in Drift Tubes

   • Daniel Lee Albritton

   Pages 119-142

9. Internal Energy Partitioning: Summary of the Panel Discussion

   • J. J. Leventhal

   Pages 143-151

10. Factors Influencing Thermal Ion-Molecule Rate Constants

    • John I. Brauman

    Pages 153-164

11. Mechanistic Aspects of Ion-Molecule Reactions

    • N. M. M. Nibbering

    Pages 165-197

12. Intramolecular Selectivity, Stereochemical and Steric Aspects of Ion-Molecule Reactions

    • Fulvio Cacace

    Pages 199-222

13. Thermochemistry of Polyatomic Cations

    • Sharon G. Lias

    Pages 223-254

14. Equilibrium Studies of Negative Ion-Molecule Reactions

    • Robert T. Mclver Jr.

    Pages 255-270

15. Proton Transfer Equilibria in the Gas and Solution Phases

    • Robert W. Taft

    Pages 271-293

16. Studies of Ion Clusters: Relationship to Understanding Nucleation and Solvation Phenomena

    • A. W. Castleman Jr.

    Pages 295-321

17. Chemical Ionization in Flames

    • D. K. Bohme

    Pages 323-343

18. Ion Molecule Reactions in Low Temperature Plasmas: Formation of Interstellar Species

    • David Smith, Nigel G. Adams

    Pages 345-376

19. Ion-Molecule Reactions in the Atmosphere

    • Eldon E. Ferguson

    Pages 377-403

20. Ion-Molecule Processes in Lasers

    • James B. Laudenslager

    Pages 405-436

The investigation of the elementary reactions of reactive intermediate species began about half a centruy ago with the advent of free radical kinetics as an active area of chemical research. In spite of the relatively greater ease of detection of a species carrying an electrical charge, and the fact that organic chemists had for decades postulated mechanisms involving ionic intermediates, the systematic study of the elementary reactions of ions was delayed for more than twenty years after the first beginnings of free radical kinetics. Even at this writing, in 1978, the word "kinetics" is considered by many chemists to be synomomous with "kinetics of neutral species". Yet in spite of the relatively late start and separation from the mainstream of kinetics, the field of ion physics and chemistry is fluorishing, and growing at an ever faster pace. Instrumentalists devise ever more sophisticated apparatuses with capabilities of delving into nearly every aspect of the interactions between ions and molecules. Even satellites orbiting the earth are now being used effectively to determine rate coefficients of ionospheric ion-neutral reactions, some of which can not as yet be measured in the laboratory.

• Potential
• energy
• experiment
• kinetics
• molecule
• physics
• plasma
• thermochemistry

• United States Department of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards, USA

  Pierre Ausloos

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