Is a proposed reaction mechanism free from unnecessary assumptions? Occam's razor applied in a mathematical way to complex first-order reaction systems

Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Volumn 112, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 4235-4240

  Bergson, Göran ^a   Linderberg, Jan ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; RATE CONSTANTS;

OCCAM'S PRINCIPLE; REACTION PATHS;

REACTION KINETICS;

PROTON;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; DEUTERIUM HYDROGEN EXCHANGE; KINETICS; MATHEMATICS;

DEUTERIUM EXCHANGE MEASUREMENT; KINETICS; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PROTONS;

EID: 43949106874     PISSN: 10895639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp711004k     Document Type: Article

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