About Book

Chemical reactions occur everywhere. While we occasionally link chemical reactions with the sterile environment of the test tube and laboratory, this is not the case. Indeed, the massive number of transformations results in a dazzling, almost unfathomable variety of new substances and energy changes occurring every second of every day in our environment. A reaction can be classed as redox if it involves both oxidation and reduction, or as nonredox if neither oxidation or reduction occurs. The majority of straightforward redox reactions may be characterised as combination, decomposition, or single displacement. The broad notion of a chemical reaction has been expanded to include reactions involving things smaller than atoms, such as nuclear reactions, radioactive decays, and elementary particle interactions, as described by quantum field theory. Chemical reactions are often defined by a chemical change and result in the formation of one or more products with features distinct from the reactants. Often, reactions are composed of a series of discrete stages, referred to as elementary reactions, and the information describing the specific sequence of events is included in the reaction mechanism. 

This book outlines the processes and applications of chemical reactions in detail. It includes detailed explanation of the various concepts and uses of the subject. Special attention is paid to the problem of the chemical reaction complexity with theoretical and methodological concepts. It focuses on modeling and quantification of electrochemical reactions, droplet-based microfluidic scheme, analysis of chemical processes, determination of the reaction mechanism and chemical vapor transport reactions. It also explores chemical functionalization of cellulosic materials, triple bond hydrogenation reactions, thermochemistry and kinetics of the reactions and theoretical investigations of mechanisms for the reactions. Such selected concepts that redefine this subject area have been presented in the text. While understanding the long-term perspectives of the topics, the book makes an effort in highlighting their impact as a modern tool for the growth of the discipline. It will serve as a reference to a broad spectrum of readers especially in the fields of chemical engineering, material science and chemistry professionals who are interested to fortify and expand their knowledge. 

About Author

Blake Elliot serves as a Guest Lecturer at Community College, Canberra. He obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Public University of Science, Birmingham. He has more than two decades of teaching experience. His interest areas of academic research include chemical compounds, chemical reactions, photochemistry, nucleosides and computational chemistry. Elliot has written dozens of articles on chemical reaction, organometallic chemistry and chemical dynamics. He consistently shares his knowledge with the researcher fraternity by organizing lectures and conferences around the globe.