World Scientific Series in 20th Century Chemistry - Vol. 1
MOLECULAR STRUCTURE AND STATISTICAL THERMODYNAMICS
Selected Papers of Kenneth S Pitzer
edited by Kenneth S Pitzer (University of California, Berkeley)
In the course of his distinguished career of over 55 years, Kenneth S Pitzer published over 360 scientific papers. Included in this volume are 72 papers, selected for their historical importance and continuing significance. In early work, where spectroscopic data were incomplete or, later on, where the systems of interest were so complex that a deductive solution from molecular information was impractical, Pitzer interrelated molecular structural information, statistical methods and thermodynamic measurements to advance the understanding of molecular systems. This volume considers all three aspects and, by putting together selected papers, highlights the cohesiveness of certain advances through time and development. Several papers from journals not widely circulated can also be found in this selection of papers.
Contents:
- Part I — Molecules:
- Barriers to Internal Rotation,
Ring Molecules, Relativistic Effects on Molecular Properties, Other Papers on Molecules
- Part II — Dense Phases:
- Extended Corresponding States and the Acentric Factor, Spin Species Conversion in Methane, Semiempirical Equations for Aqueous Electrolytes
- Other Condensed-State Papers
Readership: Chemists, chemical engineers and geochemists.
"Therefore, this volume of reprints is useful for specialists for the application of statistical thermodynamics in chemistry."
"... which serves as a personalized guide to both 'classical' and contemporary physical chemistry. I suspect that this volume will be more useful to the practitioners of this discipline than historians of science unless they are scientists first and historians a distant second ... These papers contain more than a multitude of insights, of derivations, of results. They document that Professor Pitzer is a very caring as well as competent scientist ... arrogance need not accompany accomplishment; excellence and ego are not necessarily synonymous ... For both the chemistry and the comity, this book should be read."
| The Chemical Intelligencer |
| 536pp |
Pub. date: Dec 1993 |
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