- Micro kinetics, formal kinetics, molecularity, reaction order, integrated rate laws - Complex reactions, reversible reactions, consecutive reactions, parallel reactions, approximation methods: steady-state, pseudo-first order, numerical solution of rate equations , example : Belousov-Zhabotinskii reaction - Experimental methods of kinetics, integral approach, differential approach, initial rate method, method of half-life, relaxation methods - Collision theory, Maxwell velocity distribution, collision numbers, line of centers model - Transition state theory, partition functions of atoms and molecules, examples, calculating reaction equilibria on the basis of molecular data only, heats of reaction, calculating rates of reaction by means of statistical thermodynamics - Kinetics of heterogeneous reactions, peculiarities of heterogeneous reactions, mean-field approximation, Langmuir adsorption isotherm, reaction mechanisms, Langmuir-Hinshelwood Mechanism, Eley-Rideal Mechanism, steady-state approximation, quasi-equilibrium approximation, most abundant reaction intermediate (MARI), reaction order, apparent activation energy, example: CO oxidation, transition state theory of surface reactions, Sabatier´s principle, sticking coefficient, parameter fitting - Explosions, cold flames |
