Physical Inorganic Chemistry Set

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

Physical Inorganic Chemistry: Principles, Methods, and Models
Preface ix

Contributors xi

1 Inorganic and Bioinorganic Spectroscopy 1
Edward I. Solomon and Caleb B. Bell III

2 57Fe Mossbauer Spectroscopy in Chemistry and Biology 39
Marlene Martinho and Eckard Munck

3 Magnetochemical Methods and Models in Inorganic Chemistry 69
Paul Kogerler

4 Cryoradiolysis as a Method for Mechanistic Studies in Inorganic Biochemistry 109
Ilia G. Denisov

5 Absolute Chiral Structures of Inorganic Compounds 143
James P. Riehl and Sumio Kaizaki

6 Flash Photolysis and Chemistry of Transients and Excited States 199
Guillermo Ferraudi

7 Application of High Pressure in the Elucidation of Inorganic and Bioinorganic Reaction Mechanisms 269
Colin D. Hubbard and Rudi van Eldik

8 Chemical Kinetics as a Mechanistic Tool 367
Andreja Bakac

9 Heavy AtomIsotope Effects as Probes of Small Molecule Activation 425
Justine P. Roth

10 Computational Studies of Reactivity inTransition Metal Chemistry 459
Jeremy N. Harvey

Index 501