In agreeing to undertake a review with the above title, we did not reckon with the formidable energy and talent of our immediate predecessor in this area, F. Kaufman, nor with the coverage offered in two companion chapters in Volume 20, one on Shock Tube Technique in Chemical Kinetics by Belford & Strehlow and one on Isotope Effects by Wolfsberg. What appears below then are some vignettes in the field of gas kinetics arbitrarily selected for their interest-to us. We begin by discussing the effects of translational as well as internal energy in driving bimolecular reactions. We then focus atten tion on intramolecular vibrational relaxation in activated molecules and the role of centrifugal effects in decomposition of such activated species. Finally we look briefly at the hydrogen-iodine reaction and the implications of recent work involved with this long misunderstood system.
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Spicer et al. (1970) studied this question.