Activation energy, apparent thermodynamic limitations

Essential advantages of the thermodynamics of non equilibrium pro cesses are the possibility of correct quantitative explanation of important concepts of rate limiting and rate determining steps at complex chemical transformations the possibility of the use of one effective transformation instead of a series of the reaction intermediate transformations, without the loss of the correctness when analyzing a specific influence of this trans formation series on the total course of the complex process as weU as the possibility of analyzing the influence of thermodynamic parameters of both external reactants and of reaction intermediates on some important para meters of complex reactions like apparent activation energy, etc. 

---