Chemical reactions of different types

Abstract This chapter describes a number of examples of kinetic isotope effects on chemical reactions of different types (simple gas phase reactions, Sn2 and E reactions in solution and in the gas phase, a and 3 secondary isotope effects, etc.). These examples are used to illustrate many aspects of the measurement, interpretation, and theoretical calculation of KIE s. The chapter concludes with an example of an harmonic semiclassical calculation of a kinetic isotope effect. 

Shock waves can induce many chemical reactions of different types. Two rather important examples that have been investigated systematically in the past decade in China are changes of minerals and reactions between carbon (diamond or graphite) and water under the conditions of high pressure and temperature produced by strong shock waves. 

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