Physical Chemistry Essentials - Hofmann A. 2018

Preface

Physico-chemical Data and Resources

1.1 Periodic Table of the Elements

1.2 Resources and Databases

1.3 Units and Constants

1.4 Summary of Important Formulae and Equations

Thermodynamics

2.1 Motivation, Revision and Introduction of Basic Concepts

2.2 Free Energy

2.3 Properties of Real Systems

2.4 Exercises

Mixtures and Phases

3.1 Why Do or Don’t Things Mix

3.2 Liquids

3.3 Phase Equilibria

3.4 Thermodynamic Aspects of Phase Transitions

3.5 Mixtures of Volatile Liquids

3.6 Exercises

Solutions of Electrolytes

4.1 Fundamental Concepts

4.2 Electrochemical Reactions

4.3 Electrolytes in Solution

4.4 Exercises

Molecules in Motion

5.1 Transport Processes

5.2 Molecular Motion in Liquid Solutions

5.3 Exercises

Kinetics

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Reaction Rates, Rate Constants and Orders of Reaction

6.3 Rate Equations

6.4 Determination of the Rate Law

6.5 Temperature Dependence of Reaction Rates

6.6 Linking the Rate Laws with Reaction Mechanisms

6.7 Polymerisation Kinetics

6.8 Collision Theory

6.9 Reactions in Solution

6.10 Diffusion Control

6.11 Transition State Theory

6.12 Exercises

Catalysis

7.1 Homogeneous Catalysis

7.2 Heterogeneous Catalysis

7.3 Methods to Investigate Surfaces and Surface Processes

7.4 Exercises

The Fabric of Atoms

8.1 Properties of Light and Electrons

8.2 Properties of Atoms

8.3 Introduction to Quantum Mechanics

8.4 Exercises

Quantum Mechanics of Simple Systems

9.1 The Particle in a Box

9.2 The Rigid Rotor

9.3 The Harmonic Oscillator

9.4 Tunnelling

9.5 Exercises

Quantum Theory of Atoms

10.1 The Hydrogen Atom

10.2 The Quantum Numbers

10.3 Multi-Electron Atoms

10.4 Exercises

The Chemical Bond

11.1 The Ionic Bond

11.2 Electronegativity

11.3 The Covalent Bond

11.4 The Metallic Bond

11.5 The van der Waals Bond

11.6 Crystal Field and Ligand Field Theory

11.7 Valence Bond Theory and Hybridisation of Atomic Orbitals

11.8 Exercises

Intermolecular Interactions

12.1 Interactions of Permanent Dipoles

12.3 London Dispersion Force

12.4 van der Waals Interactions

12.5 The Hydrogen Bond

12.6 Exercises

Interactions of Matter with Radiation

13.1 General Spectroscopic Principles

13.2 Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

13.3 Rota-vibrational Spectroscopy

13.4 Electron Transition Spectroscopy

13.5 Spectroscopic Methods Involving X-rays

13.6 Atomic Spectroscopy

13.7 Exercises

Appendix A Mathematical Appendix

Appendix B Solutions to Exercises

References