REACTION KINETICS FOR CHEMICAL ENGINEERS

By JENNIFER PEREZ

CONTENTS PART A PART I PHASE-SPACE GEOMETRY OF MULTIDIMENSIONAL DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS AND REACTION PROCESSES CHAPTER CLASSICAL, SEMICLASSICAL, AND QUANTUM MECHANICAL UNIMOLECULAR REACTION RATE THEORY REGULARITY IN CHAOTIC TRANSITIONS ON TWO-BASIN LANDSCAPES A NEW LOOK AT THE TRANSITION STATE: WIGNER’S DYNAMICAL PERSPECTIVE REVISITED GEOMETRY OF PHASE-SPACE TRANSITION STATES: MANY DIMENSIONS, ANGULAR MOMENTUM INTRAMOLECULAR DYNAMICS ALONG ISOMERIZATION AND DISSOCIATION PATHWAYS CLASSICAL COULOMB THREE-BODY PROBLEM GLOBAL ASPECTS OF CHEMICAL REACTIONS IN MULTIDIMENSIONAL PHASE SPACE CLASSICAL MECHANISM OF MULTIDIMENSIONAL BARRIER TUNNELING COARSE-GRAINED PICTURE FOR CONTROLLING QUANTUM CHAOS