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Catalysts accelerate reactions but do not undergo a net chemical change themselves. The process of catalysis is achieved by lowering the activation energy of a reaction, and providing an alternative path to circumvent the slow, rate-determining step of the non-catalysed reaction (see Fig. 7.1).
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Hofmann, A. (2018). Catalysis. In: Physical Chemistry Essentials. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74167-3_7
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