Physical Inorganic Chemistry: Reactions, Processes, and Applications

Preface ix

Contributors xi

1 Electron Transfer Reactions 1
Ophir Snir and Ira A. Weinstock

2 Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Hydrogen and Hydride Transfer Reactions 39
Shunichi Fukuzumi

3 Oxygen Atom Transfer 75
Mahdi M. Abu-Omar

4 Mechanisms of Oxygen Binding and Activation at Transition Metal Centers 109
Elena V. Rybak-Akimova

5 Activation of Molecular Hydrogen 189
Gregory J. Kubas and Dennis Michael Heinekey

6 Activation of Carbon Dioxide 247
Ferenc Joo

7 Chemistry of Bound Nitrogen Monoxide and Related Redox Species 281
Jose A. Olabe

8 Ligand Substitution Dynamics in Metal Complexes 339
Thomas W. Swaddle

9 Reactivity of Inorganic Radicals in Aqueous Solution 395
David M. Stanbury

10 Organometallic Radicals: Thermodynamics, Kinetics, and Reaction Mechanisms 429
Tamas Kegl, George C. Fortman, Manuel Temprado, and Carl D. Hoff

11 Metal-Mediated Carbon--Hydrogen Bond Activation 495
Thomas Brent Gunnoe

12 Solar Photochemistry with Transition Metal Compounds Anchored to Semiconductor Surfaces 551
Gerald J. Meyer

Index 589