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If the reaction is elementary, there is only a single transition state between A and B. At this point the derivative of the total electronic wave function with respect to the reaction coordinate Qa b vanishes ... 

Because this is an elementary step it involves a single transition state... 

Reactions of this type are rather rare and seem to proceed in a stepwise fashion rather than by way of a concerted mechanism involving a single transition state... 

Fixed-Bed Behavior The number of transitions occurring in a fixed bed of initially uniform composition before it becomes saturated by a constant composition feed stream is generally equal to the variance of the system. This introductory discussion will be limited to single transition systems. 

Two dimensionless variables play key roles in the analysis of single transition systems (and some multiple transition systems). These are the throughput parameter [see Eq. (16-129)] and the number of transfer units (see Table 16-13). The former is time made dimensionless so that it is equal to unity at the stoichiometric center of a breakthrough cui ve. The latter is, as in packed tower calculations, a measure of mass-transfer resistance. 

The reaction kinetics approximation is mechanistically correct for systems where the reaction step at pore surfaces or other fluid-solid interfaces is controlling. This may occur in the case of chemisorption on porous catalysts and in affinity adsorbents that involve veiy slow binding steps. In these cases, the mass-transfer parameter k is replaced by a second-order reaction rate constant k. The driving force is written for a constant separation fac tor isotherm (column 4 in Table 16-12). When diffusion steps control the process, it is still possible to describe the system hy its apparent second-order kinetic behavior, since it usually provides a good approximation to a more complex exact form for single transition systems (see Fixed Bed Transitions ). 

Single Transition System For a system described by a single material balance, Eq. (16-130) gives... 

With block copolymers two types of effect have been observed. In some instances a transition corresponding to each block is observable whilst in other cases a single transition is observed, usually close to that predicted by a linear relationship even where random copolymers show large deviations. This is because the blocks reduce both the contacts between dissimilar comonomer residues and also the disorder of the molecules which occurs in random copolymer systems. 

Figure 10.12 shows the interaction between the FIOMO of one ethylene molecule and the LUMO of another. In particular, notice that two of the carbons that are to become a-bonded to each other in the product experience an antibonding interaction during the cycloaddition process. This raises the activation energy for cycloaddition and leads the reaction to be classified as a symmetry-forbidden reaction. Reaction, were it to occur, would take place slowly and by a mechanism in which the two new a bonds are fonned in separate steps rather than by way of a concerted process involving a single transition state. 

Elementary step (Section 4.8) A step in a reaction mechanism in which each species shown in the equation for this step participates in the same transition state. An elementary step is characterized by a single transition state. 

A one-step reaction has a single transition state such a process is called an elementary reaction. Many observed ( overall ) chemical reactions consist of two... 

These statements refer to an elementary reaction, which from this point of view may be defined as a reaction possessing a single transition state. A complex reaction is then a set of elementary reactions, the potential energy surface of the whole being continuous. Thus, for two consecutive reactions the product of the first reaction is the reactant of the second. Each reaction has its own transition state. 

In one case this condition is also sufficient if a figure appears twice in the combination which is common to C and C we can add the transposition of the two points in C to which the same figure is attached to the permutation which transforms C into C. Thus, we can force the transformation of C into C to be an even permutation. We conclude that combinations with at least one repetition of a figure give rise to one single transitivity system. 

The activation parameters bring out several features. Note that the activation enthalpy and activation energy for kn, which represents a very rapid reaction, are quite small. Of course, a fast reaction can have a higher activation energy, if the value of AS is more positive, so as to compensate. The activation entropy associated with k is particularly large and negative, as is most often the case for a second-order reaction that occurs by a bimolecular step. In such cases, AS reflects the loss of entropy from the union of the two reaction partners into a single transition state. 

Thermal transitions can be studied by DSC. The crystallization transition is usually sharp with a good baseline. The melting transition is more complex and often not a single transition (Fig. 3.19)48 as it depends on the thermal history of the sample and the structural changes that can take place upon heating. In warming, solid-state transitions can take place in the unit cell, the lamellae can thicken, and secondary crystallization can also take place. The heats of crystallization and... 

Following the work of Charton (142), we may draw certain mechanistic conclusions from the results reported above. Let us begin by considering the question of a two-step versus a concerted mechanism. To define exactly what we mean by these terms, we shall consider any mechanism for which the reaction coordinate proceeds from reactants through a single transition state to products as concerted and any mechanism for which the reaction coordinate proceeds... 

Cycloaddition reactions result in the formation of a new ring from two reactants. A concerted mechanism requires that a single transition state, and therefore no intermediate, lie on the reaction path between reactants and adduct. The most important example of cycloaddition is the Diels-Alder (D-A) reaction. The cycloaddition of alkenes and dienes is a very useful method for forming substituted cyclohexenes.1... 

Electron correlations show up in two ways in the measured cross sections. If the initial target state is well described by the independent particle Hartree-Fock approximation, the experimental orbital (6) is the Hartree-Fock orbital. Correlations in the ion can then lead to many transitions for ionisation from this orbital, rather than the expected single transition, the intensities of the lines being proportional to the spectroscopic factors S K... 

The above general, idealised rate law is compatible with at least three different potential pathways for nitration one-step, concerted pathway [1] that involves a single transition state (5),... 

Because bond formation and bond breaking occur simultaneously in a single transition state, the Sn2 reaction is a concerted reaction. 

For example the X-band spectra of high-spin ferric hemes (S = 5/2 g 2 E/D < 0.1) show a single transition described by... 

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