Formally-Kinetic Description of One- and Two-Step Reactions

Abstract

We must accept that in order to describe the chemical system it is urgent for us to know the exact way it follows during the transformation of the reagents into the products of the reaction. Knowledge of that kind gives us a possibility to command chemical transformation deliberately. In other words, we need to know the mechanism of the chemical transformation. Time evolution of the transition of the reactionary system from the unconfigured state (parent materials) to the finite state (products of the reaction) is of great importance too, because it is information of how fast the reaction goes. Chemical kinetics is a self-contained branch of chemical knowledge, which investigates the mechanisms of the reactions and the patterns of their passing in time, and which gives us the answers to questions from above.