Energetics of Stable Molecules and Reactive Intermediates

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Experimental Methods to Derive Bond Energy Data. A Schematic Overview

   • J. A. Martinho Simões, M. A. V. Ribeiro Da Silva

   Pages 1-28

3. Oxygen Bomb Combustion Calorimetry: Principles and Applications to Organic and Organometallic Compounds

   • Manuel E. Minas Da Piedade

   Pages 29-53

4. The Nuts and Bolts and Results of Fluorine Bomb Calorimetry

   • P. A. G. O’Hare

   Pages 55-75

5. Titration Calorimetry for the Determination of Basicities of Transition Metal Complexes

   • Robert J. Angelici

   Pages 77-103

6. Photocalorimetry

   • Clementina Teixeira

   Pages 105-136

7. Photoacoustic Calorimetry; The Determination of Bond Dissociation Enthalpies in Solution and in the Gas Phase

   • Lucas J. J. Laarhoven, Peter Mulder, Danial D. M. Wayner

   Pages 137-151

8. Energetics of Transition Metal-X Bonding Probed by Electrochemical Techniques

   • Mats Tilset

   Pages 153-176

9. A Protocol for Deriving Values for Δ_fus H _m(298.15 K) and Δ_vap H _m(298,15 K). Applications in Obtaining Δ_sub H _m (298.15 K)

   • James Chickos, Gary Nichols, Joe Wilson, Jennifer Orf, Paul Webb, Jin Wang

   Pages 177-202

10. Measurements of Enthalpies of Sublimation: The Importance of Correlating Thermodynamic Data Obtained from Indirect Methods

    • Manuel João S. Monte

    Pages 203-214

11. Applications of Transient Infrared Spectroscopy to Coordinatively Unsaturated Metal Carbonyls

    • Eric Weitz

    Pages 215-234

12. Energetics and Structures of Gas Phase Ions: Macromolecules, Clusters and Ligated Transition Metals

    • Michael T. Bowers, Paul R. Kemper, Petra Van Koppen, Thomas Wyttenbach, Catherine J. Carpenter, Patrick Weis et al.

    Pages 235-258

13. High Pressure Mass Spectrometry

    • T. B. McMahon

    Pages 259-280

14. FT ICR. Basic Principles and Some Representative Applications

    • José-Luis M. Abboud, Rafael Notario

    Pages 281-302

15. The Role of Ion Dissociation Dynamics in the Study of Ion and Neutral Thermochemistry

    • Tomas Baer, Rick Lafleur, Oleg Mazyar

    Pages 303-322

16. Shock Tube Studies on the Stability of Polyatomic Molecules and the Determination of Bond Energies

    • Wing Tsang

    Pages 323-352

17. Extracting Thermochemical Information from Ab Initio Data

    • Karl K. Irikura

    Pages 353-372

18. Ab Initio Thermochemistry Beyond Chemical Accuracy for First-and Second-Row Compounds

    • Jan M. L. Martin

    Pages 373-415

19. Heats of Formation by Density Functional Theory Calculations

    • N. L. Allinger

    Pages 417-430

20. Back Matter

    Pages 431-448

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Covers the major experimental and theoretical methods currently used to study the energetics of stable molecules and reactive intermediates. Reviews the ate of the art and shows the interplay of experimental and theoretical methods used to probe bonding energetics and reactivity and a wide range of chemical species.
A modern and invaluable introduction to the study of molecular energetics. A reference for workers currently involved in the field.

• bonding
• combustion
• enthalpy
• metals
• spectroscopy
• structure
• thermochemistry

• Centro de Química Estrutural, Complexo Interdisciplinar, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal

  M. E. Minas da Piedade

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