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W. J. Chesnavich and M. T. Bowers
The Journal of Physical Chemistry, Vol. 83, No. 8, 1979
Theory of Translationally Driven Reactions Walter J. Chesnavich and Michael T. Bowers* Department of Chemistry, University of Cafifornia, Santa Barbara, Gaiifornia 93 106 (Received November 20, 1978) Publication costs assisted by the Petroleum Research Fund and the National Science Foundation
Transition state theory, in combination with the assumption that the reaction is translationally driven, is applied to experimental data on the translational energy dependence of a number of ion-molecule and neutral-neutral reactions. The agreement between experiment and theory is, in most instances, favorable. The results show that the theory is capable of reproducing the magnitude of a cross section curve near threshold (
