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In this chapter we study chemical equilibrium reactions. In thermal equilibrium of forward and backward reactions, the overall reaction rate vanishes and the ratio of the rate constants gives the equilibrium constant which usually shows an exponential dependence on the inverse temperature. We derive the van’t Hoff relation for the equilibrium constant and discuss its statistical interpretation.
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An overview over the development of rate theory during the past century is given by [49].
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Scherer, P.O.J., Fischer, S.F. (2017). Equilibrium Reactions. In: Theoretical Molecular Biophysics. Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-55671-9_14
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