Advanced Chemical Kinetics (Chem 530)

The course deals with kinetics of homogeneous chemical reactions occurring in gas or liquid phases. Firstly, the chemical kinetics laws for simple chemical reaction will be revisited. Then will be started the mechanistic study of complex reactions, particularly chain reactions. General view of kinetics of chain reactions will be given with particular interest to degenerate branching or cool Flames and branched chain explosions. Simulation software for Chemical kinetics such as Excel will be employed when applicable to perform the analysis of chemical kinetics data, simulation, and solving related problems.