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Published March 1995 | Version public
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Direct Observation of the Transition State

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Abstract

The direct observation of the "transition state" for chemical reaction clearly merits a place in this series devoted to the "Holy Grails" of chemistry. The transition state is neither one thing, namely, chemical reagents, nor the other, reaction products. Instead it illustrates the mystical event of trans-substantiation.

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© 1995 American Chemical Society. Received December 14, 1994. This research was supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada (to J.C.P.) and by the U.S. National Science Foundation and Air Force Ofice of Scientific Research (to A.H.Z.). We are grateful to Robert C. Jackson (Toronto) and Juen Kai Wang and Soren Pedersen (Pasadena) for help with the figures.

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69935
DOI
10.1021/ar00051a005
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Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
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Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)

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Arthur Amos Noyes Laboratory of Chemical Physics
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9023