Contents -- Preface -- 1. Criticality and Chemistry -- 1.1 Critical phenomena -- 1.2 Chemical reactions -- 1.3 Analogy between critical phenomena and the instability of chemical reactions -- 2. Effect of Criticality on Chemical Reaction -- 2.1 The effect of pressure on the equilibrium constant and rate of reaction -- 2.2 Effect of phase transformations on chemistry -- 2.3 Critical slowing-down of chemical reactions -- 2.4 Hydrodynamic equations of reactive binary mixture: piston effect -- 2.4.1 Heterogeneous reactions in near-critical systems -- 2.4.2 Dynamics of chemical reactions -- 2.4.3 Relaxation time of reactions -- 2.4.4 Hydrodynamic equations of a reactive binary mixtures -- 2.4.5 Hydrodynamic equations with statistically independent variables -- 2.5 Critical anomalies of chemical equilibria -- 2.6 Experiment -- 3. Effect of Chemistry on Critical Phenomena -- 3.1 Change of critical parameters due to a chemical reaction -- 3.2 Modi cation of the critical indices -- 3.3 Singularity in the degree of dissociation near a critical point -- 3.4 Isotope exchange reaction in near-critical systems -- 3.5 Singularities of transport coe cients in reactive systems -- 3.5.1 Mode-coupling analysis -- 3.5.2 Renormalization group methods -- 4. Phase Separation in Reactive Systems -- 4.1 Multiple solutions of the law of mass action -- 4.2 Phase equilibrium in reactive binary mixtures quenched into a metastable state -- 4.2.1 Thermodynamic analysis of reactive binary mixtures -- 4.2.2 Thermodynamic analysis of reactive ternary mixtures -- 4.2.3 Kinetics of phase separation -- 4.3 Phase equilibrium in reactive mixtures quenched into an unstable state -- 4.4 Thermodynamics of a three-component plasma with a dissociative chemical reaction -- 5. Comments on the Geometry of the Phase Diagram of a Reaction Mixture -- 5.1 Solubility in supercritical fluids.

5.2 Azeotropic points in reactive many-component systems -- 5.3 Melting point of reactive binary mixtures -- 5.4 Double critical point -- 6. Sound Propagation and Light Scattering in Chemically Reactive Systems -- 6.1 Ultrasound attenuation in near-critical reactive mixtures -- 6.2 Hydrodynamic analysis of the dispersion relation for sound waves -- 6.3 Light scattering from reactive systems -- 6.4 Inhomogeneous structure of near-critical reactive systems -- 7. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index.