Adamson, Arthur

Adamson, Arthur W. Physical chemistry of surfaces. 2nd ed. New York Intersdence 1967. 

Adamson, Arthur W. (1982), Physical Chemistry of Surfaces, Wiley-Interscience, New York, p. 424 et seq. 

Physical Chemistry of Surfaces, Arthur W. Adamson and Alice P. Gast, 6th edition, John Wiley Sons, New York. Chapters 17 18, 1997. 

In 1958, as I remember it, Fred Basolo and I, Arthur Adamson and Henry Taube, and H. R. Hunt came out with this mechanism basically, stressing slightly different features. Then Dr. Tobe joined the bandwagon with this mechanism in 1959, and the term solvent assisted dissociation was coined by Wallace and his group in Canada in 1961. That is the story as I see it at the present time... 

Arthur W. Adamson I would like to say that two years ago I had the privilege of a year s visit at University College London and that Dr. Tobe and C. K. Ingold represented an island of England in the Australian Sea. 

Arthur Adamson I think Dr. Wilmarth and co-workers have probably supplied the better available evidence for the pentacoordinated intermediate in a cobalt substitution reaction. 

Arthur Adamson If I may, I would like to mention a reaction that I think is an example of substitution which paves the way for a redox reaction, and yet is not a case of the charge following the oxidant into the coordination sphere. This is the reaction of ferrocyanide with cobaltous EDTA. 

Arthur Adamson I object to the phrase collision. I don t really believe that molecules zip around in solution colliding with each other as they do in a gas phase. 

Arthur Adamson Actually, Dr. Harris is the better man to make this particular remark, I suspect. In the case of oxalate complexes it seems necessary to assume an ortho or hydrated formulation of one end of an oxalate as it detaches from the coordination sphere in order to explain the O18 exchange. This is not exactly what you are talking about, but it is an illustration of one instance where ortho acid formation seems desirable. 

Arthur Adamson There has been some discussion and comment on what I called a cage mechanism, and I want to say in a little more organized way what I think is involved. 

ARTHUR W. ADAMSON, IRENE LING, and SUNIL K. DATTA... 

Fig. 2.36 Martin A. Bennett is now Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University (ANU). He received his Ph.D. from the Imperial College London under the guidance of Geoffrey Wilkinson in 1960 and, after postdoctoral work with Arthur Adamson at the University of Southern California, became a Lecturer at the University College London in 1963. Four years later he moved down under and joined the Research School of Chemistry at ANU, where he was appointed Professorial Fellow in 1979 and Professor of Inorganic Chemistry in 1991. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute and the Royal Society of London, was awarded with the Nyholm Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 1991 and with the Max Planck Research Award in 1994. Martin won fellowships from the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation in 1973 and 1980 and during the last time was a visiting professor in our department (photo by courtesy of M.B.)...

After an enjoyable and rewarding three years at The Fry the, I decided that I needed a change of direction. I went to the University of Southern California to learn about kinetics from Arthur Adamson. I believe, perhaps wrongly, that Joseph did not much like kinetics, indeed that he was uneasy with conclusions based on rate data. At the end of the year at USC, and mainly as a result of a chat between Joseph and Professor R. D. Howarth, chemistry department head at the University of Sheffield, I was encouraged to apply for a vacant lectureship there and was appointed, sight unseen (imagine that nowadays) ... 

From Arthur W. Adamson, A Textbook of Physical Chemistry, 3rd ed., Academic Press, 1986, p. 748ff. Other character tables can be found in this reference and in various other references. 

Hunter, R.J. and O Brien, R.W. (2001) Electroacoustics, Chapter in Encyclopedia of Surfaces and Colloid Science (ed. Arthur Adamson) Marcel Dekker, New York. 

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