Chemistry 8565: "Chemical Reaction Dynamics" (Spring 2024)

Readings for 2023

Recommended general texts

Readings for 2017

Readings for 2018

Readings for 2019

Marcus_Vignette

"Chemical Equilibrium in Relation to Chemical Kinetics” by K. Denbigh (PDF)

Translation of "Coupling of electron and nuclear motion in molecules and crystals" by M. Born (PDF)

"Potential Energy Curves for N2, NO, O2 and Corresponding Ions" by F. R. Gilmore (PDF)


J. Chem. Ed. articles

“Interpretation of Activation Energy,” D. G. Truhlar, Journal of Chemical Education 55, 309-311 (1978). 
doi.org/10.1021/ed055p309
89.pdf

“Nearly Encounter-Controlled Reactions: The Equivalence of the Steady-State and Diffusional Viewpoints,” D. G. Truhlar, Journal of Chemical Education 62, 104-106 (1985). 
doi.org/10.1021/ed062p104
234.pdf

“Molecular Modeling of Environmentally Important Processes: Reduction Potentials," A. Lewis, J. A. Bumpus, D. G. Truhlar, and C. J. Cramer, Journal of Chemical Education 81, 596-604 (2004).
doi.org/10.1021/ed081p596
Erratum: 84, 934 (2007). https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/ed084p934.1
659incldingCorrection.pdf

“The Concept of Resonance,” D. G. Truhlar, Journal of Chemical Education 84, 781-782 (2007). 
doi.org/10.1021/ed084p781
772.pdf

“Are Molecular Orbitals Delocalized?” D. G. Truhlar, Journal of Chemical Education 89, 573-574 (2012). 
doi.org/10.1021/ed200565h
938.pdf

“Dispersion Forces – Neither Fluctuating Nor Dispersing,” D. G. Truhlar, Journal of Chemical Education 96, 1671-1675 (2019). 
doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.8b01044
1224includingSI.pdf

"Classical Number and Density of States," W. Hase, Journal of Chemical Education 60, 379-381 (1983).
doi.org/10.1021/ed060p379
83Hase_density_of_states.pdf