The Possible Mechanisms of Complex Reactions Involving Consecutive Steps

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Abstract
A new systematic method for generating complete sets of reaction mechanisms is described, and several examples of its application are given to illustrate its utility in postulating mechanisms from which kinetic relations may be derived for comparison with experimental results. Starting with a choice of possible intermediate species, the procedure leads directly to the desired set of mechanisms, which are shown to be limited to those containing a number of steps no more than one greater than the number of intermediate species and which, therefore, can be obtained explicitly as unique solutions to a series of easily derived simultaneous equations.

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