Transition state Activated complex

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Activation energy the constant Ea in the exponential part of the Arrhenius equation associated with the minimum energy difference between the reactants and an activated complex (transition state), which has a structure intermediate to those of the reactants and the products, or with the minimum collision energy between molecules that is required to enable areaction to take place it is a constant that defines the effect of temperature on reaction rate. 

Isotope effects on rates (so-called kinetic isotope effects, KIE s) of specific reactions will be discussed in detail in a later chapter. The most frequently employed formalism used to discuss KIE s is based on the activated complex (transition state) theory of chemical kinetics and is analogous to the theory of isotope effects on thermodynamic equilibria discussed in this chapter. It is thus appropriate to discuss this theory here. 

Rate constants have been determined for solvolyses of 2-bromo- (or -chloro-) -2-methylbutane and 3-chloro-3-methylpentane in 10 diols at 298.15 K. By combining kinetic data with thermodynamic data, transfer Gibbs energies of the reactants (initial state) and of the activated complex (transition state) were obtained, which allowed the solvent effects on both states to be quantitatively analysed. 

In contrast to spatial distribution, the equilibrium energy distribution of adsorbed particles cannot be violated to any substantial degree by reaction since energy is rapidly transferred between adsorbed particles and solids. Therefore, the activated complex method may be applied to rates of surface reactions. For this we consider the activated complex (transition state) of a surface reaction as a likeness of adsorbed particle (21). But, assuming that each adsorbed particle occupies only one site, it is necessary, even in the simplest kinetic model, to consider that activated complexes are able to occupy not only one, but also several surface sites (21). For example, the usual picture of a reaction between two particles adsorbed on neighboring sites involves, in fact, the notion that the activated complex occupies both sites. When the activated complex occupies several sites, this does not create any difficulty for the theory since the surface concentration of activated complexes is an infinitesimal quantity, and so the possibility of overlapping the required sites is excluded. 

It should be mentioned that the ionization step in Eq. (2-13) is analogous to that involved in SnI and Sn2 reactions of aliphatic substrates. For example, in solvolytic reactions of haloalkanes, the process of going from a covalently bonded initial state to a dipolar or ionic activated complex (transition state) is similar to the ionization step in Eq. (2-13). Therefore, those solvent properties that promote ionization are also important in the estimation of solvent effects on nucleophilic displacement reactions [161] (cf. Section 5.4.1). 

Activated complex (transition state) the arrangement of atoms found at the top of the potential energy barrier as a reaction proceeds from reactants to products. (15.8)... 

In Eq. 91, the concentrations of the oxidized and reduced species just outside the electrochemical double layer are used (number of molecules per cm ) ka and ka are the electrochemical rate constants (cm s ) for the anodic and cathodic process, respectively. As for chemical processes, it is assumed that the forward and backward reactions proceed via an activated complex (transition state), see Figure 24. The rate constants can then be written as ... 

According to IUPAC the definition solvents polarity is the overall solvation capability (or solvation power) for (1) educts and products, which influences chemical equilibrium, (2) reactants and activated complexes ( transition states ), which determines reaction rates, and (3) ions or molecules in their ground and first excited state, which is responsible for light absorptions in the various wavelength regions. This overall solvation capability depends on the action of all, non-specific and specific, intermolecular solute-solvent interactions, excluding such interactions leading to definite chemical alterations of the ions or molecules of the solute [53],... 

SECTION 2-5 ACTIVATED-COMPLEX (TRANSITION-STATE) THEORY... 

Spatio-selectivity. A particularly intriguing manifestation of steric hindrance in zeolite catalysts is what is called spatio-selectivity (or transition-state selectivity). The cages or channels may be large enough for the reactants and products, but not for the activated complexes (transition-state) via which some of the reactions must occur. An example of practical importance is the ability of H-ZMS-5 to isomerize xylenes while blocking the undesired disproportionation to toluene and trimethyl benzenes that proceeds through an activated complex with two benzene rings and accompanies isomerization on non-shape selective acidic catalysts [56],... 

Kinetics is capable of giving information about activated complexes (transition states (TSs)). In particular, reaction orders with respect to... 

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