TY - BOOK ID - 16004812 TI - Reaction rate theory and rare events PY - 2017 SN - 0444594701 0444563490 9780444594709 9780444563491 9780444563491 PB - Amsterdam DB - UniCat KW - Chemical kinetics. KW - Chemical reaction, Kinetics of KW - Chemical reaction, Rate of KW - Chemical reaction, Velocity of KW - Chemical reaction rate KW - Chemical reaction velocity KW - Kinetics, Chemical KW - Rate of chemical reaction KW - Reaction rate (Chemistry) KW - Velocity of chemical reaction KW - Chemical affinity KW - Reactivity (Chemistry) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:16004812 AB - Reaction Rate Theory and Rare Events bridges the historical gap between these subjects because the increasingly multidisciplinary nature of scientific research often requires an understanding of both reaction rate theory and the theory of other rare events. The book discusses collision theory, transition state theory, RRKM theory, catalysis, diffusion limited kinetics, mean first passage times, Kramers theory, Grote-Hynes theory, transition path theory, non-adiabatic reactions, electron transfer, and topics from reaction network analysis. It is an essential reference for students, professors and scientists who use reaction rate theory or the theory of rare events. In addition, the book discusses transition state search algorithms, tunneling corrections, transmission coefficients, microkinetic models, kinetic Monte Carlo, transition path sampling, and importance sampling methods. The unified treatment in this book explains why chemical reactions and other rare events, while having many common theoretical foundations, often require very different computational modeling strategies.-- ER -