Inorganic reaction mechanism

The double isotope label technique and inorganic reaction mechanisms. J. O. Edwards and P. D. Fleischauer, Inorg. Chim. Acta, Rev., 1968, 2, 53-63 (35). 

The classic text concerned with inorganic reaction mechanisms. 

J. O. Edwards, Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms, Benjamin, New York, 1964. 

Quantum chemical methods are well established, accepted and of high potential for investigation of inorganic reaction mechanisms, especially if they can be applied as a fruitful interplay between theory and experiment. In the case of solvent exchange reactions their major deficiency is the limited possibility of including solvent effects. We demonstrated that with recent DFT-and ab initio methods, reaction mechanisms can be successfully explored. To obtain an idea about solvent effects, implicit solvent models can be used in the calculations, when their limitations are kept in mind. In future, more powerful computers will be available and will allow more sophisticated calculations to be performed. This will enable scientists to treat solvent molecules explicitly by ab initio molecular dynamics (e.g., Car-Parrinello simulations). The application of such methods will in turn complement the quantum chemical toolbox for the exploration of solvent and ligand exchange reactions. 

Bob s research interests and knowledge across chemistry were great. Throughout his career he retained an interest in biomimetic chemistry, specifically the study of metal ion-promoted reactions and reactions of molecules activated by metal ion coordination. His early interests in carbohydrate chemistry inspired him to study metal ion catalysis of both peptide formation and hydrolysis as well as studies in inorganic reaction mechanisms. He was particularly interested in the mechanisms of base-catalyzed hydrolysis within metal complexes and the development of the so-called dissociative conjugate-base (DCB) mechanism for base-catalyzed substitution reactions at inert d6 metal ions such as Co(III). 

He found the time to be the coeditor of two different book series and author of two teaching texts, one shortly to be completed on inorganic reaction mechanisms . His paperback Bioinorganic Chemistry, first published in 1984, was the first book to provide a get started approach to this vast topic. It has proved to be a best selling undergraduate course... 

Tobe, M. L. Burgess, J. Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms Addison-Wesley-Longman Harlow, 1999. 

This special volume of Advances in Inorganic Chemistry, with the thematic title Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms, is the first volume to be published under the auspices of the new editor, Professor Rudi van Eldik. 

Other instances in which spin-trapping results might have given misleading information on inorganic reaction mechanisms have been noted (e.g. Wong et al., 1974 Whitesides et al., 1974). 

Based on the Conference on Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms at Wayne State University,... 

The articles and discussion comments contained in this volume derive from a Conference on Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms. The organization of the conference was stimulated both by an interest of the National Science Foundation in surveying the current status of this area and by a need expressed by some 100 researchers active in mechanistic investigations whose opinions were canvassed by the organizers. 

Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms—Past, Present and Future... 

Lest we become too complacent in our assessment of the marked progress that has been made in understanding inorganic reaction mechanisms, we should consider the simple and very important redox systems ... 

B34. M. L. Tobe, Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms, Nelson, London, 1972. 

Specialist Periodical Reports, Vols. 1-7, Chemical Society, London. Covers the literature from 1969 to 1978 on all aspects of inorganic reaction mechanisms. 

This is my second volume as Editor of this series, and I am pleased to say that all involved in the production of this series are extremely happy with the outcome of my first Volume 54, a thematic issue devoted to Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms. More such thematic issues are in the pipeline the next one (Volume 56) will be devoted to Redox-active Metal Complexes and dedicated to the late Dieter Sellmann, followed by Volume 57 devoted to Relaxometry of Water-Metal Ion Interactions and -edited by Ivano Bertini. 

Cooke, D. O. (1979). Inorganic reaction mechanisms. The Chemical Society, London. 

For a discussion of the various possibilities, see Tobe. M. L. Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms, Thomas Nelson London, 1972 pp 25-37 Kaiakis, D., Gordon, G. Mechanisms ej Inorganic Reactions Wiley New York, 1987 pp 190-191. 

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