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5 Volume 1 Preface Scope 1 An Introduction to Clathrate Hydrate Science 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Selected Highlights of Clathrate Hydrate Science Research Up to the Present 1.3 Clathrate Hydrate Research at the NRC Canada 1.4 Contributors to NRC Clathrate Hydrate Research 1.5 Review Articles and Books on Clathrate Hydrates 1.6 Conference Proceedings 2 An Introduction to Clathrate Hydrates 2.1 Introduction 2.2 The First Gas Hydrates 2.3 The Phase Rule 2.4 de Forcrand and Villard – Career Gas Hydrate Researchers 2.5 Nikitin and von Stackelberg 2.6 Solving the Gas Hydrate Puzzle 2.7 Clathrate Hydrate Science – A New Era 2.8 Clathrate Hydrates in Engineering 2.9 Clathrate Hydrates in Nature 2.10 Summary and Observations References Notes 3 Classification of Clathrate Hydrates 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Hydrates as Clathrates 3.3 Clathrate and Related Hydrates – Guest Chemistry 3.4 The Canonical Clathrate Hydrates 3.5 Phase Equilibria 3.6 Tabulation of Hydrate Properties 3.7 Summary References 4 Synthesis of Clathrate Hydrates 4.1 Introduction 4.2 General Considerations in the Synthesis of Clathrate Hydrates 4.3 Synthesis of Hydrates with Water‐Soluble Guests Near Ambient Conditions 4.4 Synthesis of Hydrates of Guests with Low Solubility in Water 4.5 Synthesis of Clathrate Hydrates of Strongly Hydrated or Reactive Guests 4.6 Pure Hydrates – Kinetic and Thermodynamic Control 4.7 High‐Pressure Reactors 4.8 Synthesis of Single Crystals 4.9 Summary References 5 Structures of Canonical Clathrate Hydrates 5.1 Introduction 5.2 The Canonical Clathrate Hydrates 5.3 Some General Structural Considerations References 6 Structures of Noncanonical Clathrates and Related Hydrates 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Amine Hydrates 6.3 Ionic Clathrate Hydrates References 7 Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics of Clathrate Hydrates 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Clathrate Hydration Numbers and Cage Occupancies 7.3 Enthalpy of Dissociation of Hydrate Phases 7.4 Statistical Mechanics of Clathrate Hydrates: The van der Waals–Platteeuw Solid Solution Model for Clathrate Hydrate Formation 7.5 Application of the van der Waals–Platteeuw Theory to Determining Hydrate Equilibrium Composition 7.6 Computational Predictions of Hydrate Dissociation Pressures Using the van der Waals–Platteeuw Theory 7.7 Extensions of the van der Waals–Platteeuw Theory 7.8 Other Thermodynamic Topics 7.9 Conclusions References
