Eyring's 1935 framework: reaction rates controlled by the population of an activated complex at the saddle point of the potential-energy surface. k = (k_B T / h) e^{-ΔG‡/RT}.
Transition-state theory
Related concepts
- Arrhenius rate law
- Arrhenius rate law
- Arrhenius rate law
- Kinetic isotope effects (KIE)
- RRKM unimolecular theory
- Intrinsic reaction coordinate (IRC)
- Eyring equation (transition state theory)
- Eyring transition-state theory: k = (k_B·T/h)·exp(-ΔG‡/RT)
- Baldwin framework: n-exo-tet favored; n-endo-tet disfavored (ring-closure kinetic geometry)
- Eyring enzyme framework: k_cat = (k_B T / h)·exp(-ΔG‡/RT) (transition-state rate)
- Transition-state stabilisation