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Preface.List of Symbols.1. Introduction.2. Experimental Procedures.2.1 Detection, Identification and Estimation of Concentration of Species Present.2.1.1 Chromatographic techniques: liquid-liquid and gas-liquid chromatography.2.1.2 Mass spectrometry (MS).2.1.3 Spectroscopic techniques.2.1.4 Lasers.2.1.5 Fluorescence.2.1.6 Spin resonance methods: nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR).2.1.7 Spin resonance methods: electron spin resonance (ESR).2.1.8 Photoelectron spectroscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.2.2 Measuring the Rate of a Reaction.2.2.1 Classification of reaction rates.2.2.2 Factors affecting the rate of reaction.2.2.3 Common experimental features for all reactions.2.2.4 Methods of initiation.2.3 Conventional Methods of Following a Reaction.2.3.1 Chemical methods.2.3.2 Physical methods.2.4 Fast Reactions.2.4.1 Continuous flow.2.4.2 Stopped flow.2.4.3 Accelerated flow.2.4.4 Some features of flow methods.2.5 Relaxation Methods.2.5.1 Large perturbations.2.5.2 Flash photolysis.2.5.3 Laser photolysis.2.5.4 Pulsed radiolysis.2.5.5 Shock tubes.2.5.6 Small perturbations: temperature, pressure and electric field jumps.2.6 Periodic Relaxation Techniques: Ultrasonics.2.7 Line Broadening in NMR and ESR Spectra.Further Reading.Further Problems.3. The Kinetic Analysis of Experimental Data.3.1 The Experimental Data.3.2 Dependence of Rate on Concentration.3.3 Meaning of the Rate Expression.3.4 Units of the Rate Constant, k.3.5 The Significance of the Rate Constant as Opposed to the Rate.3.6 Determining the Order and Rate Constant from Experimental Data.3.7 Systematic Ways of Finding the Order and Rate Constant from Rate/Concentration Data.3.7.1 A straightforward graphical method.3.7.2 log/log Graphical procedures.3.7.3 A systematic numerical procedure.3.8 Drawbacks of the Rate/Concentration Methods of Analysis.3.9 Integrated Rate Expressions.3.9.1 Half-lives.3.10 First Order Reactions.3.10.1 The half-life for a first order reaction.3.10.2 An extra point about first order

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