New Insights into Catalytic Kinetics
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2024 | Viewed by 109
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Like thermodynamics and quantum mechanics, chemical kinetics is essential to basic and applied physical chemistry research. A search of research programs reveals a wide variety of physical chemistry projects for which chemical kinetics are necessary. They include spectroscopic and mass spectrometry methods applied to chemical sorption and reactions with chemically well‑defined materials. Environmental chemistry research involves atmospheric projects with particulates and volatile contaminants. The investigated phenomena are commonly time-dependent. Differential rate laws for first- and second-order kinetics could be used for reporting and predicting rates and rate constants. Integral rate laws could be used for reporting or predicting time-dependent amounts of reactions completed. Published but not found in this search is the application of first-order and second-order integral rate laws to chemicals in soils and water.
Common to all such research programs is the interaction of organic chemical molecules with atomic-scale sites on the surfaces of solids. The molecular interactions with those sites can include various combinations of chemical sorption and physical sorption, leading to chemical catalysis. The molecular products might be either desorbed or migrated to different sorption sites.
Manuscripts are invited for innovative examples of chemical kinetics applied to basic, applied, or environmental physical chemistry research.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Donald S. Gamble
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- chemical kinetics
- physical chemistry
- spectroscopic
- mass spectrometry
- chemical sorption
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