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The use of ultrasound in chemistry - sonochemistry has grown spectacularly in recent years, resulting in a significant body of empirical research. This timely volume brings together the work and perspectives of theoreticians and acousticians, whose interest is centered on physical aspects, and of synthetic chemists, who need guidelines to successfully apply fundamental principles.
The text begins with a theoretical introduction that summarizes the key physical principles of sonochemistry, keeping mathematics to a minimum. Subsequent chapters describe the major characteristics of sonochemistry for solutions and for biphasic, catalytic, and electyrochemical systems with the aim of elucidating the state of the art and of identifying major points for future study.

Thierry Lepoint and Françoise Lepoint-Mullie (Laboratoire d'Etude de la Cavitation, Institut Meurice-Chimie, Bruxelles, Belgium), Jean-Louis Luche and Christian Pétrier (Laboratoire de Chimie Moléculaire et Environnement, Université de Savoie-ESIGEC, Le Bourget du Lac, France), Houda Fillion (Laboratoire de Chimie Organique, Université Claude Bernard, Lyon, France), André Loupy (Laboratoire des Réactions Sélectives sur Support, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France), Pedro Cintas (Departamento de Química Orgànica, Universidad de Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain), Claudia Bianchi and Vittorio Ragaini (Dipartimento de Chimica Fisica ed'Elettrochimica, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy), Timothy J. Mason and David Walton (School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Coventry University, United Kingdom), Eric Cordemans de Meulenaer (UNDATIM, Louvain la Neuve, Belgium) and Michel Chanon (Laboratoire SM3B, Université Aix-Marseille 3, France).

• Selected by Grenoble Sciences
• Publisher(s): Springer
• Date of publication: March 1998
• Number of pages:  431 pages
• Type of illustrations: 94 ill. (b/w)
• Language(s): English
• Original publisher: Springer