KINETICS AND MECHANISMS

• Students will engage in the kinetico-mechanistic study of reactivity; project work requiring the use of standard concepts in the kinetics and mechanisms of inorganic chemistry.
  Course projects will involve redox and substitution processes, as well as ligand reactivity. There will be a focus on the determination of the kinetic and activation parameters (both thermal and pressure) of the systems being studied.
  With these projects, students will understand the importance of time as a variable in the reactivity of the molecules in solution, hereby moving beyond the static view too often assumed in molecular chemistry.
  
  RECOMMENDED READING
  M. L. Tobe, J. Burgess. 1999. "Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms". Longman
  J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., #5, 2003.
  Chem. Rev., #6, 2005.