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Physics of a chemical reaction: looking for textbook recs
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[QUOTE="Ygggdrasil, post: 5887486, member: 124113"] It seems like there might be two different issues here that most chemists would study separately: 1. The thermodynamics of chemical reactions (i.e. which bonds break and which bonds form in a chemical reaction). This would be the topic with the most complicated quantum mechanics to understand the nature of the chemical bond. 2. The kinetics of chemical reactions (i.e. how fast to chemical reactions occur). Here, the connections to collision theory and statistical mechanics are more relevant. This topic involves the kinetic theory of gases, the Arrehnius equation, the Eyring equation, and transition state theory. The quantum mechanics from above would be relevant to finding the energy landscape that defines the transition state and activation energy (though how one performs such calculations is beyond my knowledge). Not sure of which textbooks might be helpful, but perhaps this helps focus your search. For kinetics, most physical chemistry or chemistry-focused stat mech texts should have chapters on the kinetic theory of gasses and its relation to the kinetics of gas-phase reactions (though perhaps you are already familiar with these concepts). [/QUOTE]
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