Module 7 : Theories of Reaction Rates
Lecture 35 : Potential Energy Surfaces (PES) II
 
   Objectives

  After studying this Lecture you will learn to do the following

Relate a trajectory on a PES to a collision process.

   

Distinguish between reactive, non-reactive, associative and dissociative trajectories.

   
Plot the interatomic distances as a function of time and characterize the reactants and products through the plot.
   
Distinguish between classical trajectories and quantum mechanical state to state rate processes.
   
Relate microscopic state - to - state rates to bulk or macroscopic rate constants.
   
   
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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