CHEM 670 - Special Topics in Dynamics and Mechanisms

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Discussions of the major methods and approaches to the study of chemical kinetics and other rate processes as applied to the elucidation of mechanisms of organic, inorganic and biochemical reactions. One or two of the following topics may form the basis of a semester’s work in this course: rapid-reaction techniques; stopped-flow, pressure and temperature jump methods; ultrasonics; inorganic reaction mechanism solvation; electron and proton transfer and substitution reactions; biocatalysis inhibition activation and allosteric effects; kinetics of structural transitions and phase transformation; gas-phase kinetics and heterogeneous catalysis.
Prerequisite: Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.