I ask about a many-step reaction
start:0 1 2 ... i ... M finish:M+1
where free energies of the states 1, 2, ..., M are much higher than those of the start state "0" and the finish state "M+1".
I know the steady-state solution of this problem (it is not difficult to solve it on one's own), but I need a REFERENCE to a guy who first solved it! I remember that, long ago, I saw such a reference - this was, it seems, a work of somebody with Polish name the beginning of 1900-s; but that is all that I remember.
So - QUESTION: can somebody help me with the reference?
I don't know if this helps, but the name Polanyi comes to mind. He did a lot of work, mostly together with Evans, on reaction rate theory in the 1920's and 1930's, including some work on polymerization. I attached one of their papers that I could find. If this is not it, maybe you can find it in the references they mention.
Thanks, Gert!
Unfortunately, the recommended paper contains neither citation which I am looking for, nor the resulting equation that I know... And it seems that Polanyi (although his name looks like Polish) is another guy: the paper that I try to find is of 1903 or so...
I only have a few papers on tautomerization from that period, and they don't give clues to your problem. I tried a few simple searches on Web of Science ("polymerization" or "chain reactions" between 1900 and 1910) but that did not turn up anything, except for two polish sounding names (Posnjak and Kondakow). However, their papers are in German and I have no access to them. If you have a further clue and no access to WoS I can try to help you some more, but you'd need to drag up something else from your memory, I'm afraid.
Thanks, Gert!
Do not bother! I'll try to drag up from my memory or old notebooks...
Have you looked up in Capellos, C.; Bielski, B. H. J. Kinetic Systems; Wiley-Interscience: New York, 1972?
Thanks, Adela!
But: are you sure that this book contains such a reference?
If yes, I can look for it - but we have no this book in our library, and in the Internet I have fiund only a picture of its front page...
Take a look at Capellos: here goes the file. As you have mentioned, it is not difficult to extend the treatment to n species. I have done it as well!
Thanks, Adela!
It seems that 'SYSTEM 11' and a ref. 'A. Rakowski, Z. Phys. Chem., 57, 321 (1906)' is what I need.
However, may I ask you to be so kind as to copy me the Appendix II (it seems, II, but the letters are hardly visible..), which contains definition of S, as this is written in page 36?
Thanks in advance!!!
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