Quantum Electrochemistry

The origin of this book lies in a time before one of the authors (J. O'M. B.) left the University of Pennsylvania bound for the Flinders University. His collaboration with Dennis Matthews at the University of Pennsylvania had contributed a singular experimental datum to the quantum theory of elec­ trode processes: the variation of the separation factor with potential, which could only be interpreted in terms of a quantum theory of electrode kinetics. The authors came together as a result of grad~ate work of one of them (S. U. M. K.) on the quantum mechanics and photo aspects of elec­ trode processes, and this book was written during a postdoctoral fellowship held by him at the Flinders University. Having stated the book's origin, it is worthwhile stating the rational­ izations the authors had for writing it. Historically, quantization in elec­ trochemistry began very early (1931) in the applications of the quantum theory to chemistry. (See the historical table on pages xviii-xix.) There was thereafter a cessation of work on the quantum theory in electrochemistry until a continuum dielectric viewpoint, based on Born's equation for solvation energy, began to be developed in the 1950s and snowballed during the 1960s. The origin of this book lies in a time before one of the authors (J. O'M. B.) left the University of Pennsylvania bound for the Flinders University. His collaboration with Dennis Matthews at the University of Pennsylvania had contributed a singular experimental datum to the quantum theory of elecƯ trode processes: the variation of the separation factor with potential, which could only be interpreted in terms of a quantum theory of electrode kinetics. The authors came together as a result of grad̃ate work of one of them (S.U.M.K.) on the quantum mechanics and photo aspects of elecƯ trode processes, and this book was written during a postdoctoral fellowship held by him at the Flinders University. Having stated the book's origin, it is worthwhile stating the rationalƯ izations the authors had for writing it. Historically, quantization in elecƯ trochemistry began very early (1931) in the applications of the quantum theory to chemistry. (See the historical table on pages xviii-xix.) There was thereafter a cessation of work on the quantum theory in electrochemistry until a continuum dielectric viewpoint, based on Born's equation for solvation energy, began to be developed in the 1950s and snowballed during the 1960s Front Matter....Pages N1-xix Electric Double Layers at Metals....Pages 1-39 Electrode Kinetics....Pages 41-79 Quanta and Surfaces....Pages 81-110 Time-Dependent Perturbation Theory....Pages 111-140 Long-Range Radiationless Energy Transfer in Condensed Media....Pages 141-152 Mechanisms of Activation....Pages 153-188 The Continuum Theory....Pages 189-234 Interfacial Electron Tunneling....Pages 235-289 Proton Transfer in Solution....Pages 291-313 Proton Transfer at Interfaces....Pages 315-378 The Hydrated Electron....Pages 379-420 Photoelectrochemical Kinetics....Pages 421-468 Quantum Electrode Kinetics....Pages 469-508 Back Matter....Pages 509-518