Reaction Mechanisms of Inorganic and Organometallic Systems.

This book evolved from the lecture notes of the author for a one-semester course given to senior undergraduates and graduate students over the past 20 years. This third edition presents an updating of the material to cover the literature through to the end of 2005, with occasional excursions to early 2006. As a result, the total number of references has increased from about 660 in the second edition to over 1570 in the present one, and 140 pages of text have been added; this seems to be a clear testament to the vitality of the subject area. A new Chapter 9 on kinetics in heterogeneous systems has been added. This area has long been the domain of chemical engineers, but it is of increasing relevance to inorganic kineticists who are studying catalytic processes, such as hydrogenation and carbonylation reactions, where gas/liquid mass transfer is involved. This chapter also covers the kinetic aspects of adsorption and reaction of species on solids, and the question of whether the reaction is really homogeneous or heterogeneous…