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With the privilege of participating as a repeater in this second Advanced Study Institute on High Pressure comes the duty not only to state one’s objectives, but also to outline the differences with the Chapters written for the earlier occasion. Both of those Chapters dealt with kinetics at high pressure, the first with “model reactions”1 and the other with “problem reactions”.2 The model reactions included, especially, protic acid base equilibria. The reaction volumes of large numbers of such equilibria are known, and these provide a wealth of information on which kinetic studies can be securely founded. However, the models also included a number of data on rate constants under pressure. The reactions discussed comprised those in which the mechanism is exceedingly simple and dominated by a single feature, and in which alternative studies had left essentially no doubt about the pathway. The second chapter described the application of knowledge thus gained, to reactions the mechanisms of which were still unsettled, or even controversial.
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le Noble, W.J. (1987). Kinetics of Organic Reactions at High Pressure. In: van Eldik, R., Jonas, J. (eds) High Pressure Chemistry and Biochemistry. NATO ASI Series, vol 197. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3827-4_11
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