the transition state.
# The activated complexes are in a special equilibrium (quasi-equilibrium) with the reactant molecules.
# The activated complexes can convert into products, and kinetic theory can be used to calculate the rate of this conversion.

Development

In the development of TST, three approaches were taken as summarized below.

Thermodynamic treatment

In 1884, Jacobus van 't Hoff proposed the Van 't Hoff equation

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