Open AccessOn the theory of unimolecular reactions
Author(s) -
Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
Publication year - 1926
Publication title -
proceedings of the royal society of london series a containing papers of a mathematical and physical character
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-9150
pISSN - 0950-1207
DOI - 10.1098/rspa.1926.0149
Subject(s) - collision , molecule , chemistry , energy (signal processing) , degrees of freedom (physics and chemistry) , activation energy , computational chemistry , thermodynamics , physics , computer science , quantum mechanics , organic chemistry , computer security
It is usually supposed that the energy of activation is confined to a few degrees of freedom. On this assumption the expression for the chance that a molecule possesses energy in excess of E is ℯ-E/RT with sufficient exactness for most purposes. The rate of bimolecular reactions is quite adequately expressed by the equationnumber of molecules reacting = Zℯ-E/RT , where Z is the number entering into collision.
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