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Chemical reactions take place by individual processes, each of which involves the almost instantaneous conversion of one or more molecules of reactant into one or more molecules of product. In order to predict the course of a chemical reaction, we need to be able to predict the way in which these basic conversions take place and the frequency with which they take place under any given set of conditions.
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Dewar, M.J.S., Dougherty, R.C. (1975). Chemical Reactivity. In: The PMO Theory of Organic Chemistry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-4404-9_5
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