Energetics of Stable Molecules and Reactive Intermediates

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Experimental Methods to Derive Bond Energy Data. A Schematic Overview....Pages 1-28
Oxygen Bomb Combustion Calorimetry: Principles and Applications to Organic and Organometallic Compounds....Pages 29-53
The Nuts and Bolts and Results of Fluorine Bomb Calorimetry....Pages 55-75
Titration Calorimetry for the Determination of Basicities of Transition Metal Complexes....Pages 77-103
Photocalorimetry....Pages 105-136
Photoacoustic Calorimetry; The Determination of Bond Dissociation Enthalpies in Solution and in the Gas Phase....Pages 137-151
Energetics of Transition Metal-X Bonding Probed by Electrochemical Techniques....Pages 153-176
A Protocol for Deriving Values for Δ fus H m (298.15 K) and Δ vap H m (298,15 K). Applications in Obtaining Δ sub H m (298.15 K)....Pages 177-202
Measurements of Enthalpies of Sublimation: The Importance of Correlating Thermodynamic Data Obtained from Indirect Methods....Pages 203-214
Applications of Transient Infrared Spectroscopy to Coordinatively Unsaturated Metal Carbonyls....Pages 215-234
Energetics and Structures of Gas Phase Ions: Macromolecules, Clusters and Ligated Transition Metals....Pages 235-258
High Pressure Mass Spectrometry....Pages 259-280
FT ICR. Basic Principles and Some Representative Applications....Pages 281-302
The Role of Ion Dissociation Dynamics in the Study of Ion and Neutral Thermochemistry....Pages 303-322
Shock Tube Studies on the Stability of Polyatomic Molecules and the Determination of Bond Energies....Pages 323-352
Extracting Thermochemical Information from Ab Initio Data....Pages 353-372
Ab Initio Thermochemistry Beyond Chemical Accuracy for First-and Second-Row Compounds....Pages 373-415
Heats of Formation by Density Functional Theory Calculations....Pages 417-430
Back Matter....Pages 431-448