Improved Calculation of Quasiequilibrium Reaction Rate Constants

15 September 1963

journal article
research article
Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics

Vol. 39 (6) , 1577-1579
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1734483

Abstract

The method of steepest descents has been applied to the calculation of the total number of quantum states of a system of harmonic oscillators. The corresponding rate expressions of unimolecular reactions have also been derived.

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