Selected Readings in Chemical Kinetics

Preface

Part I. Kinetic Laws

Paper 1 Excerpts from "On the Laws of Connexion between the Conditions of a Chemical Change and its Amount" by A. V. Harcourt and W. Esson, Philosophical Transactions, 156, 193 (1866); 157, 117 (1867)

Part II. Molecular Kinetics

Paper 2 An Excerpt, Translated from the German, from S. Arrhenius's "On the Reaction Velocity of the Inversion of Cane Sugar by Acids", Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie, 4, 226 (1889)

Paper 3 An Excerpt from W. C. McC. Lewis's "Studies in Catalysis. Part IX. The Calculation in Absolute Measure of Velocity Constants and Equilibrium Constants in Gaseous Systems", Journal of the Chemical Society, 113, 471 (1918)

Paper 4 The First Part of H. Eyring and M. Polanyi's "On Simple Gas Reactions", Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie, B, 12, 279 (1931), Translated from the German

Paper 5 A Paper by W. F. K. Wynne-Jones and Henry Eyring, "The Absolute Rate of Reactions in Condensed Phases", J. Chem. Phys. 3, 492 (1935)

Part III, Unimolecular Reactions

Paper 6 A Contribution by F. A. Lindemann to a Faraday Society Discussion on "The Radiation Theory of Chemical Action", published in the Transactions of the Faraday Society, 17, 598 (1922)

Paper 7 The First Portion of C. N. Hinshelwood's "On the Theory of Unimolecular Reactions", Proceedings of the Royal Society, A, 113, 320 (1927)

Paper 8 Most of O. K. Rice and H. C. Ramsperger's "Theories of Unimolecular Reactions at Low Pressures", Journal of the American Chemical Society, 49, 1617 (1927)

Part IV. Chain Reactions

Paper 9 Part I of a Paper by J. A. Christiansen, "On the Reaction between Hydrogen and Bromine", Det. Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab. Mathematisk-fysiske Meddelelser, 1, 14 (1919)

Paper 10 A Portion, Translated from the German, of "The Oxidation of Phosphorus Vapour at Low Pressures", by N. Semenoff, Zeitschrift für Physik, 46, 109 (1927)

Paper 11 A Paper by F. O. Rice and K. F. Herzfeld, "The Thermal Decomposition of Organic Compounds from the Standpoint of Free Radicals. VI. The Mechanism of Some Chain Reactions", Journal of the American Chemical Society, 56, 284 (1934)

Paper 12 A Translation of a Paper by V. A. Poltorak and V. V. Voevodsky, "On a Single Chain Mechanism for the Thermal Decomposition of Hydrocarbons", published in Doklady Academii Nauk S.S.S.R., 91, 589 (1953)