Provides clear introduction to the chemical basis and important theorems of chemical reaction network theory

Maximizes reader insights into powerful and wide-ranging theorems of chemical reaction network theory for use in a variety of applications

Summarizes the latest studies of chemical reaction network theory and covers many different applications while additionally providing mathematicians with access to (and motivation for) the more difficult underlying arguments for the theory

Equips readers to begin contributing to chemical reaction network theory

Part I: Preliminaries.- Anticipating the Big Picture: Some Clues.- Chemical and Notational Preliminaries.- Reaction Networks, Kinetics, and the Induced Differential Equations.- Open Systems: Why Study Nonconservative and Otherwise Peculiar Reaction Networks?.- A Toy-Reaction-Network Zoo: Varieties of Behavior and Some Questions.- Part II: Some Principle Theorems: A First Look.- Aspects of Reaction Network Structure.- The Deficiency Zero Theorem.- Deficiency One Theory.- Concentration Robustness and Its Importance in Biology: Some More Deficiency-Oriented Theorems.- Concordant Reaction Networks: Architectures that Promote Dull, Reliable Behavior Across Broad Kinetic Classes.- The Species-Reaction Graph.- The Big Picture Revisited.- Part III: Going Deeper.- Quasi-Thermodynamic Kinetic Systems.- Detailed Balancing.- Complex Balancing.- Deficiency Zero Theory Foundations and Some Key Propositions.- Deficiency One Theory Foundations.- Concentration Robustness Foundations.- Species-Reaction Graph Foundations.