Reaction intermediates exist in local energy minima unlike transition states
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SUPPORTED
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Reaction intermediates correspond to stable or metastable chemical species located at local energy minima on a potential energy surface, contrasting with transition states, which sit at first-order saddle points (local maxima along the reaction coordinate).
Evidence for · 7
(2×1) Reconstruction Mechanism of Rutile TiO2(011) Surface.
2023 · cited by 0
Paper [3] identifies labile reaction intermediates that reside at local energy minima along the reaction path.
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More for · 6
The electron-transfer intermediates of the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) as polarons by in situ spectroscopy.
2021 · cited by 0
Paper [4] describes catalytic intermediates as polarons trapped in potential energy minima on the potential energy surface.
New Insights on Singlet Oxygen Release from Li-Air Battery Cathode: Periodic DFT Versus CASPT2 Embedded Cluster Calculations.
2023 · cited by 0
Paper [5] identifies a stable superoxide intermediate as a local minimum along the potential energy surface.
Photophysics of intramolecularly hydrogen-bonded aromatic systems: ab initio exploration of the excited-state deactivation mechanisms of salicylic acid.
2006 · cited by 0
Paper [7] notes that transient intermediates and keto-type states represent local minima on the energy surface.
Oxygen atom transfer reactions of iridium and osmium complexes: theoretical study of characteristic features and significantly large differences between these two complexes.
2009 · cited by 0
Paper [8] discusses unsymmetrical local minima (intermediates) that exist distinctly from transition states.
Ab initio simulations reveal that reaction dynamics strongly affect product selectivity for the cracking of alkanes over H-MFI.
2012 · cited by 0
Paper [9] refers to a metastable reaction intermediate as a local minimum distinct from the transition state.
From High-Energy C7H2 Isomers with A Planar Tetracoordinate Carbon Atom to An Experimentally Known Carbene.
2018 · cited by 0
Paper [10] confirms that reactive isomers acting as intermediates are local minima on the potential-energy surface.