This book covers a chemical processing technique, gas-phase pyrolysis, that has garnered great interest in recent years as a benign synthetic method for green chemistry. The book looks at all aspects of gas-phase pyrolysis: structure, kinetics, mechanisms, empirical and theoretical investigations, synthesis, materials, and potential applications. The authors discuss combinations of pyrolytic reactors with physiochemical techniques, routes for and reactions for the synthesis of organic compounds, and the control of reaction rates. Research and industrial chemists wanting to stay abreast of the latest techniques will benefit from this thorough and unique treatment.