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Professor Wesley D. Allen

Professor Allen gave the 2nd Liebig-College seminar and lectured on 


Modern Chemical Kinetics and Its Quantum Foundations.

 

Wed, 02.07.2014, 

16:00-18:00 (HEG 018)                    

Fri, 04.07.2014, 

14:00-16:00 (HEG 018) 

Wed, 09.07.2014, 

16:00-18:00 (HEG 018) 

Thur, 10.07.2014, 

16:00-18:00 (0024) 

 

Fri, 25.07.2014, 

16:00-18:00 (HEG 018) 

Mon, 28.07.2014, 

16:00-18:00 (HEG 018) 

 

 

The syllabus includes following topics:

  • General-order rate equations
  • Reversible reactions and the road to equilibrium
  • Coupled kinetics of reaction mechanisms
  • Chain reactions
  • Combustion networks
  • Enzyme kinetics
  • Unimolecular reactions and mechanisms of energy transfer
  • Transition state theory
  • RRKM theory
  • Quantum mechanics: the bedrock of chemistry
  • Exact solutions of model problems in quantum chemistry: new and old
  • Time evolution of quantum wave functions
  • Quantum tunneling as a reaction mechanism
  • Theory of quantum tunneling