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Shift of the rate‐determining step in a consecutive chemical reaction with variation of the reaction affinity
Author(s) -
Enyo M.
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
international journal of chemical kinetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.341
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1097-4601
pISSN - 0538-8066
DOI - 10.1002/kin.550070313
Subject(s) - chemistry , reaction rate , reaction conditions , computational chemistry , organic chemistry , catalysis
A consecutive single‐route reaction is considered. When two (groups of) steps compete in controlling the overall reaction rate, there exists a general rule that the earlier step in the flow of the overall reaction tends to be rate‐determining with the increase of the reaction affinity. The latter may, however, be distributed more or less evenly to both steps.