Comment: Constraints on the temperature variation of three-body ion—molecule association reaction rate constants

✍ Scribed by H.O. Pritchard

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 163 KB
• Volume: 107
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2614
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2614(84)85366-x

✦ Synopsis

Ferguson gave an analysis of the relationship between dissociation and association rate constants in ion-molecule reaction systems [ Il. His thesis may be dissected into three parts:

(i) That because of detailed balancing, the r3te quotient law kd/ka = Keq (where kd and k, are Ihe rate constants for dissociation and association,respectively, and Ii, is the equilibrium constant) must hold. As a consequence, the difference in XtiVati0r-i energies Ed -Ea = 4E, the energy change in the reaction. if the