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The monograph by Aubert and Sivolobov presents data on 69 hydrocarbons, 10 alcohols, 2 ethers, graphite, and thiophen for the solid, liquid, and vapour states in the temperature range 90 to 1400 K. Methods for the calculation of vapour heat capacities are given and the principal types of heat capacity anomaly in the condensed phases are presented. Tables giving melting temperature, enthalpies of transition, and entropies are provided. 

Transient, or time-resolved, techniques measure tire response of a substance after a rapid perturbation. A swift kick can be provided by any means tliat suddenly moves tire system away from equilibrium—a change in reactant concentration, for instance, or tire photodissociation of a chemical bond. Kinetic properties such as rate constants and amplitudes of chemical reactions or transfonnations of physical state taking place in a material are tlien detennined by measuring tire time course of relaxation to some, possibly new, equilibrium state. Detennining how tire kinetic rate constants vary witli temperature can further yield infonnation about tire tliennodynamic properties (activation entlialpies and entropies) of transition states, tire exceedingly ephemeral species tliat he between reactants, intennediates and products in a chemical reaction. 

The experimental side of the subject explores the effects of certain variables on the rate constant, especially temperature and pressure. Their variations provide values of the activation parameters. They are the previously mentioned energy of activation, entropy of activation, and so forth. The chemical interpretations that can be realized from the values of the activation parameters will be explored in general terms, but readers must consult the original literature for information about those chemical systems that particularly interest them. On the theoretical side, there is the tremendously powerful transition state theory (TST). We shall consider its origins and some of its implications. 

Of course, the converse situation, in which the entropy of the transition state is lower than that of the ground state of the reactant, can also occur (Fig. 3.11). In this case, one speaks of a tight transition state tight, because rotations, vibration or motion of the activated complex are more restricted than in the ground state of the reactant. The dissociation of molecules on a surface provides an example that we shall discuss in the next section. 

Transition metal colloids can also be prevented from agglomeration by polymers or oligomers [27,30,42,43]. The adsorption of these molecules at the surface of the particles provides a protective layer. In the interparticle space, the mobility of adsorbed molecules should be reduced decreasing the entropy and thus increasing the free energy (Fig. 2). 

This expression corresponds to the Arrhenius equation (14.1) and basically provides the possibihty of calculating the preexponential factor (a calculation of is, in fact, not easy). It also shows that in the Arrhenius equation it will be more correct to use the parameter AG rather than A//. However, since AGt = Aff TASt, it follows that the preexponential factor of Eq. (14.4) will contain an additional factor exp(ASi/R) reflecting the entropy of formation of the transition state when the enthalpy is used in this equation. 

Fourth, kinetic data of the sulfur extrusion reaction of thiepin will provide direct evidence for the transition state of the process. Data on the conversion of the thiepin 34 into its corresponding naphthalene derivative are available 2SK The substantially large negative activation entropy (AS si —24 cal mol-1 deg-1) points to the existence of a highly ordered transition state, namely a thianorcaradiene, in the reaction. 3,4-Bis(methoxycarbonyl)-5-hydroxybenzo[/>]thiepin 33 thermally... 

Quantitative estimates of E are obtained the same way as for the collision theory, from measurements, or from quantum mechanical calculations, or by comparison with known systems. Quantitative estimates of the A factor require the use of statistical mechanics, the subject that provides the link between thermodynamic properties, such as heat capacities and entropy, and molecular properties (bond lengths, vibrational frequencies, etc.). The transition state theory was originally formulated using statistical mechanics. The following treatment of this advanced subject indicates how such estimates of rate constants are made. For more detailed discussion, see Steinfeld et al. (1989). 

It was pointed out in discussion at Jablonna that our deductions from AS+ values are hazardous for at least three reasons (1) They require a knowledge of kp values for at least two temperatures, and this is not easy to obtain (2) The AAS+ for the two mechanisms should be of the order of magnitude of the rotational entropy, but is in fact appreciably greater (3) The AS is strongly affected by the solvation of the initial and transition states, and because of the differences in charge-density between the initial and transition states for the two monomers, considerable differences in AS+ could arise from this source. Nonetheless, it seems to us that the close similarities of the three AS values for the DCA on the one hand, and of the two AS+ values for THF on the other, are unlikely to be coincidences, and that therefore these AS values, if used with adequate circumspection, can provide some pertinent evidence. 

The types of values reported in the database standard enthalpies of formation at 298.15 K and 0 K, bond dissociation energies or enthalpies (D) at any temperature, standard enthalpy of phase transition—fusion, vaporization, or sublimation—at 298.15 K, standard entropy at 298.15 K, standard heat capacity at 298.15 K, standard enthalpy differences between T and 298.15 K, proton affinity, ionization energy, appearance energy, and electron affinity. The absence of a check mark indicates that the data are not provided. However, that does not necessarily mean that they cannot be calculated from other quantities tabulated in the database. 

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