Kinetic Manifestation of Bimolecular Multistage Physicochemical Processes in Solutions

Dear Colleagues,

Physicochemical processes in condensed matters (in liquid and solid solutions) are widely spread in nature, and their theoretical and experimental investigation is important for biological and technological applications. Among these are, for example, electron excitation energy transfer (that determines, in particular, concentration quenching of luminescence), electron (or proton) migrations in photosynthetic systems, transfer of nuclear spin polarization, electron spin exchange (leading to EPR lines broadening), chemical reactions occurring in colloid or polymer solutions, in nano- and biosystems, or trapping and detrapping problems semiconductor and many others. An important specific feature of such processes is an essential dependence of their kinetic manifestations on molecular mobility of reactants (that ensures the encounter of reactants in solution), the character of which is significantly affected by a chemically inert solvent. This determines the so-called “cage effect” that results, along with bulk reactions, in the existence of a new kind of geminate reactions. The presence of such an effect makes it necessary to take into consideration the nonstationary stage of the kinetics; and this leads to the necessity of deriving kinetic equations, developing adequate molecular models of reacting systems, analytically or numerically calculating their kinetics or reaction yields, as well as experimentally establishing the mechanism of multistage physicochemical processes under study. This Special Issue on “Kinetic Manifestation of Bimolecular Multistage Physicochemical Processes in Solutions” will include a selection of research papers and reviewers about all kinetic aspects of any multistage physicochemical process in solutions.

Prof. Dr. Alexander B. Doktorov
Guest Editor

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