Horiuti-Boreskov problem

The second motive of this chapter is concerned with evergreen topic of interplay of chemical kinetics and thermodynamics. We analyze the generalized form of the explicit reaction rate equation of the thermodynamic branch within the context of relationship between forward and reverse reaction rates (we term the corresponding problem as the Horiuti-Boreskov problem). We will compare our... 

Relationships between forward and reverse overall reaction rates Horiuti-Boreskov problem... 

It is not still absolutely clear if the Horiuti-Boreskov representation is valid in the general case (for instance, for single-route non-linear mechanisms without rate-limiting step) and under which conditions it could be valid. It seems both scientists considered this representation is valid in all the domain of conditions. Both tried to find the relationship between R and R considering that such distinguishing does exist always. However it is a problem Having respect to scientists who first started to work in this area, we term it as the "Horiuti-Boreskov problem". 

There is a famous question posed firstly by the Japanese scientist Juro Horiuti before WWII (1939), and then, independently, by the Russian scientist Georgii Boreskov in 1945 "How to find the equation for reaction rate in back direction knowing the rate expression in a forward direction " (detailed description of the problem is presented by Horiuti (1973), see also Boreskov s (1945) original paper). 

Horiuti posed this problem and solved it only for the special example of reaction on a hydrogen electrode. Boreskov with no knowledge about the... 

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