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) | |
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Fri, 04.07.2014, |
14:00-16:00 (HEG 018) |
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Wed, 09.07.2014, |
16:00-18:00 (HEG 018) |
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Thur, 10.07.2014, |
16:00-18:00 (0024) |
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Fri, 25.07.2014, |
16:00-18:00 (HEG 018) |
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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