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lha08
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Homework Statement
I'm a little confused as to the concept of activation energy, transition state, and reaction intermediates...For example, I know that the activation energy is the difference between the ground state of the reactants and the transition state but on a diagram, does the top hill represent the transition state or the reaction intermediates? The thing is that supposedly the transition state is not a chemical species, its just a fleeting moment, but is this particular state represented by the reaction intermediates or is this state just between the formation of the ES and EP complexes?