Kinetics and Catalysis in Microheterogeneous Systems

This book provides a quantitative assessment of the advances in the area of catalysis and kinetics in microheterogeneous systems. It is an invaluable resource for chemists interested in catalysis and reaction kinetics, and physicists interested in semiconductors, metal clusters and catalysis.

Michael Gratzel

1. Kinetics and Catalysis in Microheterogeneous Systems: An Introduction 2. Micellar Rate Effects Upon Organic Reactions 3. Kinetics of Intramicellar Reactions Simulated by Stochastic and Diffusion Models 4. Kinetics of Excited State Processes in Micellar Media 5. Concepts and Pictographic Models in Reverse Micelles 6. Catalysis by Enzymes Entrapped in Hydrated Surfactant Aggregates Having Various Structures in Organic Solvents 7. Dynamics of Charge Separation Across Vesicle Membranes 8. Dynamics of Lateral Charge Transport in Bilayer Assemblies of Electrochemically Active Amphiphiles 9. Stereochemistry of Lipid Aggregates and Their Growth and Separation Processes 10. Redox Reactions on Colloidal Metals and Metal Oxides 11. Photophysics, Photochemistry and Photocatalytic Aspects of Semiconductor Clusters and Colloids 12. Catalysis of Organic Reactions by Inorganic Solids 13. Electrochemical and Photochemical Applications of Zeolite Catalysts 14. Excited State Dynamics in Low-Dimensional Systems