Advanced Chemical Thermodynamics and Kinetics

What Will You Learn?

• Week 1:Review of classical thermodynamics: Concept of entropy, Properties of Gibbs free energy, Phase equilibrium of one and two-component system, Mixtures, Chemical equilibrium.
• Week 2:Molecular interactions: Dipole moment, Electrical polarization, Charge-dipole, Dipole-dipole and Dipole-induced dipole interaction, Dispersion interaction.
• Week 3:Transport phenomena: Viscosity, Diffusion (Fick's laws).
• Week 4:Review of chemical kinetics: Reaction mechanism, Kinetic measurements.
• Week 5:Advanced topics in chemical kinetics: Introduction to photochemistry, Kinetics of multicomponent systems: Combustion and Atmospheric chemistry.
• Week 6:Introduction to statistical thermodynamics: Molecular partition function, Boltzmann distribution.
• Week 7:Introduction to bimolecular reaction dynamics: Potential energy surface, Transition state theory.
• Week 8:Unimolecular reactions (Lindemann-Christiansen model (Introductory discussion on Hinshelwood and RRK/RRKM models).
• Week 9:Introduction to solution-phase reaction dynamics: Cage effect, Diffusion controlled reactions, Polar solvation, Marcus theory of electron transfer.
• Week 10:Non-ideal solutions, Activity of ions (Debye-Huckel theory).
• Week 11:Electrochemistry: Insights into electrode processes, Ionic conductivity.