Alternative reaction pathway
What Alternative reaction pathway means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for OCR.
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Reference: OCR
A route provided by a catalyst that has a lower activation energy than the uncatalysed route.
A catalyst allows a reaction to proceed via a different route than the uncatalysed one.
Topics that use Alternative reaction pathway
- Reaction rates (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Activation energy
- Boltzmann distribution
- Catalysis and activation energy
- Catalyst examples
- Catalyst regenerated and not consumed
- Catalyst regenerated in the mechanism
- collision frequency
- Collision frequency and rate
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